cultural resources

NYTs: “It’s 2020. Indigenous Team Names in Sports Have to Go.”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

NYTs: “In Last Rush, Trump Grants Mining and Energy Firms Access to Public Lands”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Federal Court Denies Second Effort by La Posta Band of the Diegueño Mission Indians to Stop Trump Border Wall

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the new materials in La Posta Band of the Diegueño Mission Indians v. Trump (S.D. Cal.):

39 Amended Complaint

40-1 Second Motion for Injunction

47 Opposition

55 Reply

60 DCT Order

Update — 1/7/2021

64 Motion for Reconsideration

69 Response

72 DCT Order

Prior posts here, here, and here.

NYTs: “Cleveland’s Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

New Lawsuit to Stop Keystone XL

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the complaint in Indigenous Environmental Network v. Bureau of Land Management (D. Mont.):

1 Complaint

Justice and Corporate Accountability Project: Empirical Data On How Investors Are Harmed When Companies Do not Disclose Information About Violence and Lack of Indigenous Consent

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here, on SSRN.

The Project’s webpage, with more reports, is here.

Seattle Times: “Salmon People: A tribe’s decades-long fight to take down the Lower Snake River dams and restore a way of life”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Crosscut: “A magical hike on Whidbey Island whitewashes Native history”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

D.C. Circuit Declines to Order Injunction on Construction of Border Wall to Stop Destruction of Sacred Sites over Dissent of Judge Millett

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the order in Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Nation v. Wolf:

Order on Motion for Stay Pending Appeal + Dissent

Briefs:

Opposition

Appellants Motion for Emergency Injunction

Lower court materials here.

Crosscut: “Spend Thanksgiving experiencing Native art around Seattle”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.