Michigan Indian

Sixth Circuit Briefing in State of Michigan v. Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Complete

Matthew L.M. Fletcher3 Comments

Here are the briefs:

Sault Tribe CA6 Substitute Brief

Michigan Brief

NHBPIAmicusBrief

Saginaw Chippewa Amicus Brief

Sault Tribe Reply

 

Sixth Circuit Amicus Briefs in Support of Little River Band Ottawa in Dispute with NLRB

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

2013 Amicus Brief of Chickasaw Nation and Ute Mountain Tribe

2013-07-15 Multi-Tribe Amicus Group Brief

2013-07-16 American Indian Law Scholars Amicus Brief

2013-07-15 NCAI AMICUS BRIEF

LRB’s brief is here.

Little River Band Ottawa Opening Brief in Sixth Circuit Appeal against NLRB

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here:

LRB Brief

Appendix – Part 1

Appendix – Part 2

Appendix – Part 3

Appendix – Part 4

Administrative materials here.

Michigan COA Holds that ICWA is Inapplicable to Mackinaw Band Ottawa and Chippewa Members

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion:

In re Thibeault

Little River Band Ottawa Job Posting — General Counsel, Executive Legal Department

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

General Counsel

Remains of MIA Michigan Odawa Vietnam War Vet Recovered — John L. Burgess (Born Larry Waukazoo)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here. More at Leelanau Enterprise (paywall).

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Amicus Brief in Michigan v. Sault Tribe

Matthew L.M. Fletcher3 Comments

Here:

Saginaw Chippewa Amicus Brief

IPR Profile on American Indian Treaty Rights in Michigan

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Interlochen Public Radio continues its excellent profiles of northern Michigan history with “Looking Back: The Fight For American Indian Fishing Rights,” profiling Arthur Duhamel.Arthur Duhamel

Here’s my contribution:

The urgency was about more than fish. The federal government had ignored the poverty in Peshawbestown for generations. As Matthew Fletcher puts it, the federal government just stopped returning the tribe’s phone calls in the 1870s.

Fletcher teaches indigenous law at Michigan State University and is a member of the Grand Traverse Band. Fletcher says the tribe needed some way to make the federal government recognize its existence and asserting fishing rights under a treaty signed in 1836 was the way to do that.

“The United States does not sign a treaty with counties or corporations,” says Fletcher. “They sign treaties with nations.”

Impact of SCT’s Voting Rights Act on Indian Country

Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments

The potential implications of Shelby County may be massive for Indian voting. I’m no expert, but eyeballing the covered jurisdictions (or should I say formerly covered jurisdictions), I see a lot of Indian country.

I see Alaska and Arizona, but thousands upon thousands of Indian voters potentially affected. I see Shannon and Todd Counties in South Dakota. Obviously Lakota territory. I even see Allegan County in Michigan, where the Gun Lake Tribe is located. [Wrong township.] There’s Robeson County in North Carolina where the Lumbees are, and Kings County in California.

IPR Coverage of Supreme Court Grant in Michigan v. Bay Mills

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.