Two Indian Country Job Posting for Dakota Plains Legal Services

 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Managing Attorney – Eagle Butte, South Dakota

DAKOTA PLAINS LEGAL SERVICES (DPLS), a non-profit legal services program, is accepting applications for a Managing Attorney position in our Eagle Butte, South Dakota, branch office.  The Eagle Butte office serves the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota and Dewey, Haakon, Potter and Ziebach counties in South Dakota.

QUALIFICATIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES: Applicants must have a JD degree and be licensed to practice in South Dakota, or willing and qualified to take the next South Dakota Bar Exam; must be a bright, motivated, self-starter; must have the tenacity to assume immediate practice responsibilities, including handling a significant caseload touching on many different areas of law with regular appearances in court; must demonstrate an interest in poverty law and working with Native American and low income clients; and must commit to a minimum of a two year employment period, upon completion of a six month probationary period.  Applicant must have at least one year experience in the practice of poverty law or Indian law, with trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts or two years’ experience in the general practice of law.  If Applicant does not possess this experience we would consider Applicant for a staff attorney position until qualified to be a Managing Attorney.

SALARY: Competitive, depending on experience.  DPLS has an excellent fringe benefits package including generous leave benefits and employee insurance coverage (medical, dental, life, disability).

CLOSING DATE: Open until filled.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:  Please submit a letter of interest and resume to:

John J. Buchy, Executive Director

Dakota Plains Legal Services

PO Box 727

Mission, SD 57555

(605) 856-4444

dpls1@gwtc.net

Native Americans, Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply.  Dakota Plains Legal Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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MANAGING ATTORNEY – MISSION, SOUTH DAKOTA

DAKOTA PLAINS LEGAL SERVICES (DPLS), a non-profit legal services program, is accepting applications for a Managing Attorney position in our Mission, South Dakota, branch office.  The Mission office serves the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota and Gregory, Jones, Mellette, Todd and Tripp counties in South Dakota.

QUALIFICATIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES: Applicants must have a JD degree and be licensed to practice in South Dakota, or willing and qualified to take the next South Dakota Bar Exam; must be a bright, motivated, self-starter; must have the tenacity to assume immediate practice responsibilities, including handling a significant caseload touching on many different areas of law with regular appearances in court; must demonstrate an interest in poverty law and working with Native American and low income clients; and must commit to a minimum of a two year employment period, upon completion of a six month probationary period.  Applicant must have at least one year experience in the practice of poverty law or Indian law, with trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts or two years’ experience in the general practice of law.  If Applicant does not possess this experience we would consider Applicant for a staff attorney position until qualified to be a Managing Attorney.

 

SALARY: Competitive, depending on experience.  DPLS has an excellent fringe benefits package including generous leave benefits and employee insurance coverage (medical, dental, life, disability).

 

CLOSING DATE: Open until filled.

 

APPLICATION INFORMATION:  Please submit a letter of interest and resume to:

 

John J. Buchy, Executive Director

Dakota Plains Legal Services

PO Box 727

Mission, SD 57555

(605) 856-4444

dpls1@gwtc.net

 

Native Americans, Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply.  Dakota Plains Legal Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

NAPGRA Criminal Prosecution — Acquiring Indian Remains

Here are the materials in United States v. Beatty (S.D. Ohio):

1 Information

3 Elements of the Plea Agreement

10 Consent to Plead Guilty

13 Magistrate Report

United States v. Mustang Wind Co. Complaint

Here is the complaint in United States v. Mustang Wind Co. (N.D. Okla.):

1 Complaint

An excerpt:

In this civil action, the United States seeks a preliminary and a permanent injunction and a declaratory judgment that the ongoing excavation activities of Mustang Run Wind Project, LLC, Tradewind Energy, Inc., Enel Kansas, LLC, and Enel Green Power North America, Inc. (collectively “Defendants”) in Osage County, Oklahoma, are unlawful and must be suspended until Defendants have obtained all requisite federal regulatory approvals and have entered into appropriate leases approved by the Secretary of the Interior (“the Secretary”).

New in the Turtle Talk Mailbox: Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s “The White Possessive”

White Possessive

University of Minnesota Press website here. Here is the blurb:

The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and culturally constructed as a white possession.

Moreton-Robinson reveals how the core values of Australian national identity continue to have their roots in Britishness and colonization, built on the disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty. Whiteness studies literature is central to Moreton-Robinson’s reasoning, and she shows how blackness works as a white epistemological tool that bolsters the social production of whiteness—displacing Indigenous sovereignties and rendering them invisible in a civil rights discourse, thereby sidestepping thorny issues of settler colonialism.

Throughout this critical examination Moreton-Robinson proposes a bold new agenda for critical Indigenous studies, one that involves deeper analysis of how the prerogatives of white possession function within the role of disciplines.

Tribal Immunity Does Not Foreclose Deposition of Attorney in Grand Canyon Skywalk Dispute

Here are the materials in Grand Canyon Skywalk Development LLC v. Cieslak (D. Nev.) (No. 15-1189):

1 Motion to Quash

23 Reply in Support of Motion to Quash

[Response sealed]

28 DCT Order Denying Motion to Quash

Paskenta Band v. Crosby (Either an Internal Political Dispute or RICO Suit) Dismissed

Here are the materials in Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians v. Crosby (E.D. Cal.):

45 Quicken Loans Motion to Dismiss

46 Umpqua Bank Motion to Dismiss

50-1 Cornerstone Motion to Dismiss

51-1 Haness Motion to Dismiss

52-1 Crosby Motion to Dismiss

53-1 Associated Pension Motion to Dismiss

54-1 Garth Moore Insurance Motion to Dismiss

55-1 Crosby Motion to Stay

67 Plaintiffs Opposition to Motion to Stay

72-10 Plaintiffs Motion for PI

73 Plaintiffs Opposition to Motions to Dismiss

87 Crosby Opposition to Motion for PI

88 Crosby Reply

91 Plaintiffs Reply in Support of Motion for PI

101 DCT Order

Complaint here.

Split Eighth Circuit Affirms Drug Conviction of Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Member

Here is the opinion in United States v. Long.

Tenth Circuit Dismisses Appeal in Harvey v. Ute Indian Tribe

Here is the opinion.

We posted briefs here.

Potawatomi Indian Country

Doesn’t get much better. 

   
    

and smores are also good
   

NYTs Profile of Benefits of Lower Elwha Dam Removal

Here is “When Dams Come Down, Salmon and Sand Can Prosper.”