Author: Sarah Donnelly

IPLP Seeks Assistant Director of Communications and Outreach

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Link to job posting here.

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law seeks applications for the position of Assistant Director of Communications and Outreach for the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy (IPLP) Program.  This position works with the IPLP Program leadership team to create and implement communication, student recruitment, and alumni relations and development plans for the IPLP Program.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, so please submit a letter of interest, resume, and two writing samples to Carrie Stusse at
cms1@email.arizona.edu.

 

Chief Judge and Prosecutor Vacancies with Hopi Tribe

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Announcement and description of positions:

Chief Judge

Chief Prosecutor

Federal Agents Raid Menominee Tribe

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U.S. News report here.

Search warrant and affidavits (PDF) here.

The Tribe is being accused of growing hemp plants with too much THC in them, but the Tribe says they were upfront to the Feds about seedlings they received for industrial hemp research:

Former U.S. Attorney for North Dakota Tim Purdon is working with the Menominee tribe and blasted the raid as a “waste of resources” that “is exacerbated by the fact that the Tribe had agreed to act itself to destroy individual strains of the hemp crop that the Tribe and the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed were problematic.”

“This misallocation of federal resources is exactly what the [2013] Cole and [2014] Wilkinson Memos were designed to prevent,” he said, referring to the Justice Department memos allowing states and tribes, respectively, to regulate marijuana.

The Menominee Tribe legalized marijuana back in August, but the government has not yet enacted regulations concerning its sale and production.

Additional Amicus Briefs in Dollar General Supporting Mississippi Choctaw

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Here:

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center Brief

Amicus Brief from the States of Mississippi, Washington, Oregon, North Dakota, New Mexico and Colorado

Initial Amicus Briefs posted here.

We’re posting all materials here.

Alaskan Tribal Consortium Seeks Family Services Director

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Link to job announcement here.

The Association of Village Council Presidents includes 56 Alaska Native Villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.  The position is out of Bethel, AK.

NIGC Internship Announcement

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Details about the Summer 2016 internship program can be found here.

Moapa Paiute Settlement Closes Coal Power Plant

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Materials in The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians v. Nevada Power:

No. 114 – Order Granting Joint Motion to Approve Settlement

The settlement includes $4.3 million to the Tribe and requires defendants to shutdown the last Reid Gardner Plant by 2018.  Four power stations had been running since the 60s to power the Las Vegas Valley, but were considered the dirtiest in the country and fined heavily by regulators for spewing coal ash dust.  The last working plant is next to the Tribe’s reservation.

Mississippi Choctaw Merits Brief

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Materials in the matter of Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians:

No. 13-1496 Brief for Respondents

BIA RFP to Indian Enterprises on Tribal Court Assessments

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As a courtesy notice, the below Request for Proposals are available on the Federal Business Opportunities website. Please note, they are advertised as 100% Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise Set-aside in accordance with the Buy Indian Act.

  • RFQ No. A16PS00001, closes 11/6/2015, OJS District II Tribal Court Assessments
  • RFQ No. A16PS00002, closes 11/6/2015, CFR Tribal Court Assessments