Michigan State Bar Indian Law Section Meeting

John Petoskey received the Tecumseh Award

  
Section officers Judge Tanya Wanageshik, Liz Cook, and Scott Ryder

  
Meeting audience members included a significant Michigan State contingent

   
 

IBIA Opinion Rejecting Grand Traverse County’s Challenge to GTB Trust Land Acquisition

Here is the opinion in Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners v. Acting Midwest Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs (61ibia273).

Grand Traverse County Loses IBIA Appeal Challenging GTB Trust Acquisition

Here is “County Loses Trust Appeal.

Sixth Circuit Denies En Banc Petition in Soaring Eagle Casino Resort v. NLRB

Here:

2015 09 29 Order Denying Petition for Rehearing En Banc

En banc petition materials here.

Michigan Public Radio on Anishinaabemowin and the Boarding Schools

Here.

Deleta Gasco Smith works for the Little Traverse Bay Band. She attended Holy Childhood for three years of elementary school.

“When we were in the school we were actually completely forbidden to speak the language, and if we were caught, the punishment was swift and it was severe,” Gasco Smith says.

Gasco Smith’s father was fluent in Anishinaabemowin, but he was careful not to teach his daughter the language. Gasco Smith says her Dad went to the same boarding school and knew she would be beaten for speaking Anishinaabemowin.

 

Sixth Circuit Denies En Banc Petition in NLRB v. Little River Tribal Govt; Saginaw Chippewa En Banc Petition Remains Pending

Here is the order (Judge McKeague dissents):

CA6 Order Denying Rehearing En Banc

En banc materials in both cases here.

Prophetstown

   
    
    
    
   

Potawatomi Trail of Death: Day Two and Three Trail Markers

   
   

Potawatomi Trail of Death: Menominee’s Village