Michigan Indian

Fletcher on Anishinaabe Law and the Round House

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Matthew Fletcher has published “Anishinaabe Law and the Round House” in the Albany Government Law Review.

Here is the abstract:

This paper addresses the Indian country criminal justice system’s difficulties through the context of the Great Lakes Anishinaabeg’s traditional customs, traditions, and laws, and their modern treatment of crime. Louise Erdrich’s The Round House expertly captures the reality of crime and fear of crime in Anishinaabe Indian country, and offers a bleak view of the future of criminal justice absent serious reform in the near future.

SCOTUS Grants Patchak v. Zinke

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the order list.

Lower court materials are here.

Judge Garfield Hood Walks On

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Mike Petoskey: “Michigan’s Tribal Court – State Court relations were built upon his shoulders.  He stands for the proposition that one judge can pick up the phone and call another judge across jurisdictions to discuss matters of mutual concern and to collaborate.”

Interlochen NPR: The Garden of Eden for multiple Michigan tribes, Mackinac Island to honor native heritage

Teresa Walrod

When you step off the dock onto Mackinac Island, you’re setting foot on a land with a long, and sometimes troubled, history for Michigan’s first people.

There are new efforts underway to get visitors to look past the fudge shops and the quaint homes, to appreciate the Native American history on this island they call “Great Turtle.”

Story is HERE.

More in a previous post here.

Michigan Superintendent of Schools Seeks to Fine Schools That Don’t Drop Mascots

Kate Fort

Article here.

This is primarily in response to the most recent action of the Paw Paw School Board to retain their racist mascot (after a particularly contentious Board meeting). Article here.

This is also after the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (under the leadership of Matt Wesaw) attempted to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, which was dismissed.

Federal Court Accepts Stipulation and Issues Consent Judgment in Michigan v. Hannahville

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the order:

Consent Judgment

Prior posts here and here.

Spring 2017 Michigan Indian Legal Services Newsletter

Sarah M Donnelly

Download(PDF): MILS_Spring_2017_newsletter

Hannahville and Michigan Reach Stipulation on Gaming Compact

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here is the stipulation:

Stipulation

Complaint and other materials here.

Federal Court Rejects Sag Chip and Nottawaseppi Huron Potawatomi Motions to Intervene in Bay Mills Gaming Case

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here are the materials in Bay Mills Indian Community v. Snyder (W.D. Mich.):

47 Saginaw Chippewa Motion to Intervene

54 Michigan Motion for Summary J

54 Nottawaseppi Motion to Intervene

61 Michigan Opposition to SCIT Motion

62 BMIC Opposition to SCIT Motion

67 Michigan Opposition to NHB Motion

68 BMIC Opposition to NHB Motion

69 DCT Order

Bringing Native History to Mackinac Island

Kate Fort1 Comment

Here.

This has been the result of years of hard work and relationship building. Eric Hemenway has done amazing work on this.

“We want to show in the Biddle House that the tribes were not just these passive participants in history. They were making their own decisions, their own moves.”

And here’s a kid of TurtleTalk lucky enough to get a proper history lesson from Eric on Mackinac Island before the signs went up: