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Ohio Federal Court Transfers Insurance Company’s Claims against Interior over Lower Brule Loan Guarantee to Federal Claims Court

August 30, 2024Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the updated materials in Great American Life Insurance Company v. United States Department of the Interior (S.D. Ohio):

46 DCT Order

49 US Motion to Dismiss

50 Great American Cross-Motion to Transfer

52 US Reply ISO 49

54 Great American Reply ISO 50

55 DCT Order

Prior posts here.

Way back in the day, Human Rights Watch issued a rare, tribe-facing report on the line of transactions that led to this case, which shows no signs of nearing a conclusion. The then-tribal government response is here.

Update on Osage Suit against Interior over Mineral Estate Regulation

August 9, 2024Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are materials in Osage Nation v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):

1 Complaint.pdf Download

12 Joint Status Report.pdf Download

Assistant Secretary Releases Volume II of the Boarding School Report

July 31, 2024Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

doi_federal_indian_boarding_school_initiative_investigative_report_vii_final_508_compliant.pdf Download

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.