Assistant Secretary Releases Volume II of the Boarding School Report

Here:

Excerpt:

Accordingly, I am submitting to you Volume II of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. This second volume adds to our understanding of the Federal Indian boarding school system by:

• Updating the official list of Federal Indian boarding schools to include 417 institutions across 37 states or then-territories;

• Providing detailed profiles of each Federal Indian boarding school;

• Identifying 1,025 other institutions that did not satisfy the four criteria used for this investigation, but were nevertheless used to advance similar assimilation and education policy goals;

• Confirming that at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending Federal Indian boarding schools;

• Confirming that there are at least 74 marked and unmarked burial sites at 65 different school sites;

• Listing 127 different Treaties between the United States and Indian Tribes that implicate the Federal Indian boarding school system; and,

Reporting that the Department estimates that the U.S. Government made appropriations available of more than $23.3 billion in FY23 inflation-adjusted dollars between 1871 and 1969 for the Federal Indian boarding school system as well as other similar institutions and associated assimilation policies.

Jaune Smith

The first volume is here.

Washington Federal Court Dismisses Wildfire Claims against BIA

Here are the materials in Townsend Ranch LLC v. United States (E.D. Wash.):

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Purported Whistleblower’s Suit against BIA

Here are the materials in Kent v. Lacounte:

Shelly Niro

Prior post here.

Another California Valley Miwok Lawsuit Filed

Here is the new complaint in California Valley Miwok Tribe v. Haaland (D.D.C.):

“Just Fine with Us”

August 28, 1980

Postscript — Frank Kelley was wrong.

Montana Federal Court Orders Stay in Blackfeet Trespass Case, Orders Eagle Bear to Put Up $1M Bond

Here are the new materials in Eagle Bear Inc. v. Blackfeet Indian Nation (D. Mont.):

Prior post here.

(Belatedly, We Announce the) New 25 CFR Part 151 Land Acquisitions Rule

Here.

Been busy having fun out of the office . . . .

I’d say courtesy of Bill Wood, the king of sigma, but I didn’t ask for his permish for this one.

Montana Federal Court Confirms Cancellation of Eagle Bear Lease

Here are the materials in Eagle Bear Inc. v. Blackfeet Indian Nation (D. Mont.)

Prior post here.

Materials on Eagle Bear’s bankruptcy proceedings are here.

Sault Tribe Trust Land Acquisition Appeal [updated 1/12/24]

Here are the briefs (only one so far) in Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Haaland (D.C. Cir.):

Sault Tribe Reply

Lower court materials here.

North Dakota Federal Dismisses Federal Common Law Trespass Claims of Indian Allottees against Pipeline Company

Here are the materials in Chase v. Andeavor Logistics PC (D.N.D.):