The Atlantic: “The People Who Profited Off the Trail of Tears”

Book review of “Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory” by Claudio Saunt.

Here.

Briefs in Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation v. Dept. of Interior [federal approval of drilling at Fort Berthold] [updated 12/22/21]

Here are the updated briefs in Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation v. Dept. of Interior (D.N.D.):

75 MHA Nation MSJ

80 Slawson MSJ

81 Interior MSJ

87 MHA Nation Reply

Update (12/22/21):

88 Slawson Reply

89 Interior Reply

92 Magistrate Report

105 Status Report

108 DCT Order Denying Stay

109 Objections

Prior post here.

Federal Court Dismisses Suit against Duck Valley Tribe for Failure to Exhaust

Here are the materials in Magee v. Shoshone Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation (D. Nev.):

1 Complaint

10 Motion to Dismiss

10-1 Tribal Court Record

16 Response

25 Reply

26 Surreply

28 Objection to Surreply

40 DCT Order

Navajo Nation Doc: “Rural Matters — Coronavirus and the Navajo Nation”

From the New England Journal of Medicine, here.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

NYTs Op-Ed on Navajo and COVID

From Wahleah Johns, “A Life on and Off the Navajo Nation: The reservation has one of the country’s highest rates of infection.”

Tribal Amicus Brief in California v. Texas [ACA Challenge in Supreme Court]

Here:

19-84019-1019tsacTribesAndTribalOrganizations

Op-Ed on Tribal Health Checkpoints in South Dakota

Here is “Alexander Mallory: Tribes have full legal authority to use checkpoints to safeguard health.”

Previous post here.

Morning Ireland: “Navajo Nation thanks Ireland for Covid 19 donations”

Here, featuring Navajo AG Doreen McPaul.

You can visit the Navajo donation page here nndoh.org/donate.html.

FB Page here: https://www.facebook.com/Navajo-Nation-Covid-19-Relief-Fund-105664894478899/

Original thank you video: https://www.facebook.com/105664894478899/videos/282938079772471/

 

 

NYTs: “Tribal Nations Face Most Severe Crisis in Decades as the Coronavirus Closes Casinos”

Here.

Federal Court Finds Treasury Delay in Disbursing CARES Act Funds Not Egregious Enough to Merit an Order to Disburse Immediately

Here is the order in Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Mnuchin (D.D.C.):

29 DCT Order

Prior posts here.