Here is “Spokane Tribe celebrates compensation for damage caused by Grand Coulee Dam.”
Legislation
Task Force Report Recommending Broad Changes to Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act
News Profile of #MMIW
Here is “THE CRISIS OF MURDERED AND MISSING INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND WHY TRIBES NEED THE POWER TO ADDRESS IT.”
WaPo Profile of the Remove the Stain Act
Here.
Bad River Ojibwe Letter to Wisconsin Governor Objecting to State Felony Trespass Bill
Here:
Michigan Bar Journal Article on the Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act
Norika L. Kida Betti and Cameron Ann Fraser have published “Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act at Seven Years” in the November 2019 issue of the Michigan Bar Journal.
Today is 25th Anniversary of Pokagon Band Potawatomi, Little Traverse Odawa, and Little River Ottawa Federal Acknowledgment Statutes
public-law-103-323.pdf [Pokagon Band Restoration Act]
public-law-103-324-2.pdf [LTBB/LRB Reaffirmation Act]
1993-house-committee-hearing.pdf
H.R.3977 – To amend the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 to extend the jurisdiction of tribal courts to cover crimes involving sexual violence, and for other purposes.
Introduced by Rep. Haaland.
Michigan Public Radio: “Grand Traverse Band tribal member appeals to UN for help getting compensation over broken 1885 treaty”
Here.
Fletcher Testimony on the RESPECT Act before the House Indigenous Peoples Subcommittee
Worth a look, most especially for Dylan Minor’s excellent artistic rendering of the treaty cessions by Michigan Indian nations (skip ahead to page 15); available on SSRN here.
It was cherry blossom time, too!
And on the way over, we happened by the Japanese Internment Memorial, noting that the federal government placed many of the concentration camps on Indian reservations: Continue reading
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