Blast from the Past: Tom Smithson Letter Describing KBIC Tribal Leader Fred Dakota’s Arrest for Exercising Treaty Rights in 1970

Singel Talk to Greater Lansing United Nations Association on May 20, 2025 @ 6:30

RSVP here. Zoom Info:

Meeting ID: 884 9472 0042
Passcode: 696746

“Our featured speaker, Wenona Singel, Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center and Associate Professor of Law at MSU College of Law, will explore the role of Indigenous communities in global sustainability efforts.”

Judge Tim Connors on “Rights, Relationships, Responsibilities”

In the Detroit Legal News, here.

An excerpt:

Over 30 years ago in Michigan, then Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Cavanagh began a relationship with our Tribal Courts. His initial words were prophetic to our neighbors: “We know we have more to learn from you than you do from us.” And so, it began. We have only scratched the surface of what we can learn. We can learn because there is a need, perhaps a necessity, that we open spaces and places for incorporating other world views and create procedures that nurture values that address areas of conflict in our communities.

Fletcher Comic Book for FBA 2025

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SCOTUS Denies Cert in Sault Tribe Trust Acquisition Case

Here is today’s order list.

Cert stage briefs here.

Fletcher’s “Nanaboozhoo and Derrick Bell for a Walk”

Here is “Nanaboozhoo and Derrick Bell Go for a Walk,” published in the B.U. Law Review Online, now posted on SSRN.

Michigan SCT Briefs in Enbridge Line 5 Matter

Here are the applications for leave to appeal in In re Application of Enbridge Energy to Replace & Relocate Line 5:

Application for Leave to Appeal

FLOW Application for Leave

Lower court materials here.

Michigan Tribes Exit U.S. Army Corps Sham “Consultation” re: Line 5

Here:

Federal BIO in Sault Tribe Gaming Lands Case

Here is the brief in Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Burgam:

Cert petition here.

Sixth Circuit Rejects Sault Tribe’s Objections to 2023 Consent Decree re: 1836 Treaty Rights

Here is the opinion in United States v. Michigan:

Jiiman sink??

Briefs here.