Here are the materials in United States v. Pego (E.D. Mich.):
Michigan Indian
Fletcher Talk (“The Eagle Returns”) at Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center FRIDAY
Here is the My North notice:
Time: October 26, 2012 from 2pm to 3pm
Location: Eyaawing Museum & Cultural Center
Street: 2304 North West Bay Shore Dr.
City/Town: Peshawbestown
Phone: 231.534.7768
Event Type: literary
Organized By: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
Michigan COA Applies Victimless Crimes Exception to Exclusion of State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country
In other words, the Michigan COA held that the state may prosecute non-Indians for engaging in drug-related criminal activity inside the Hannahville casino. Here is the opinion in People v. Collins:
Our previous post on this case is here.
Michigan Files Cert Petition in Dispute over BMIC’s Vanderbilt Casino
Here is the petition:
Petition for a Writ of Certiorari MI v BMIC
Better pdf here: Michigan v Bay Mills Cert Petition
Questions Presented:
1. Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to enjoin activity that violates IGRA but takes place outside of Indian lands.
2. Whether tribal sovereign immunity bars a state from suing in federal court to enjoin a tribe from violating IGRA outside Indian lands.
Sixth Circuit materials here.
My earlier views on why this petition isn’t going anywhere are here. I would add now that since Bay Mills, as I understand it, hasn’t re-opened the casino, and since the State filed an amended complaint way back when, there doesn’t seem to be much pressure to grant this particular petition. Also, if this is really an IGRA fight over an allegedly illegal casino, it’s really the federal government’s fight. In fact, NIGC already referred the matter to the federal prosecutors … a while back. Michigan is trumping up an alleged compact violation that might not even exist. There might be a compact violation, or not, but the State in its petition doesn’t even point to which provision in the compact BMIC is violating (maybe they did, but I didn’t see it).
First Panel: Gaming Landscape in Michigan
L-R, Brian Newland, John Petoskey, Bill Brooks, and moderator John Simermeyer
State News Article on MSU Indigenous Students
Here.
An excerpt:
As one of 131 American Indian students enrolled at MSU, French senior Sean Patrick works four jobs, pays his own bills and faces the looming payback of student loans after graduation.
“I am completely on my own,” said Patrick, who is not officially recognized by an American Indian tribe, but is co-chair of the North American Indigenous Student Organization, or NAISO. “When friends ask, I say, ‘No, I don’t receive any aid.’”
Today marks Indigenous People’s Day, an unofficial holiday observed as a counterweight to Columbus Day — a day to clear up some misconceptions about the heritage of American Indians.
For students with indigenous ancestry, securing financial aid can be a challenge.
US Army Corps on Great Lakes Treaty Subsistence Fishing
Last summer, the US Army Corps published a report titled “Treaty Rights and Subsistence Fishing in the U.S. Waters of the Great Lakes, Upper Mississippi River, and Ohio River Basins.” It’s well worth a read, especially for those tribes that did not respond to the Corps’ efforts to contact them. The authors wrote whatever they found online in such cases, and we wonder how accurate those descriptions are.
For example, Menominee Tribe is listed as a non-treaty tribe. For all we know, this may be accurate. But this 1968 Supreme Court case suggests that it is not accurate.
An excerpt from the report:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), in consultation with other state and federal agencies and Native American tribes, is conducting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study (GLMRIS) pursuant to the Section 3061(d) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007. GLMRIS will explore options and technologies, collectively known as aquatic nuisance species (ANS) controls that could be applied to prevent ANS transfer between the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Ohio River Basins through aquatic pathways. As defined in the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990, 16 U.S.C. § 4702(1), ANS are nonindigenous species that threaten the diversity or abundance of native species; or the ecological stability of infested waters; or commercial, agricultural, aquacultural, or recreational activities that depend on such waters. In support of GLMRIS, the USACE GLMRIS Fisheries Economics Team is conducting baseline studies of fisheries in the Great Lakes, Mississippi River, and Ohio River Basins. This study focuses on a unique sector of the fisheries — the subsistence fishery undertaken by Native American tribes under treaty rights.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Release on UN Special Rapporteur Recommendations re: Eagle Rock
IPR: LTBB Plans Casino In Mackinaw City
Here. Hey, imagine that. An Indian tribe staying within its traditional territory to engage in gaming.
More on Fletcher Talk at Traverse City History Center: Legends of the Grand Traverse Region
Here:
Legend’s Grand Opening Announcement:
Don’t miss the exciting Grand Opening of “Legends of the Grand Traverse Region: Community out of Diversity.” This celebration is on Saturday, Sept. 22nd from 4:00pm to 6:30pm at the History Center of Traverse City. Attendees will tour the brand new Legends’ Exhibit, listen to the featured speaker, and then socialize at an elegant reception featuring adult beverages and tasty hors d’oeuvres. Admission is free, although good will offerings will be requested and are always appreciated!
The speaker is Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law, and member of the Grand Traverse Tribe of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. He will be speaking on “The Story of the Grand Traverse Band’s Treaty Rights Fight.”
Professor Fletcher’s talk is designed to complement our fall 2012 Legend’s Exhibit. It highlights three of the “Legends” of the Traverse area: Art Duhamel of the Grand Traverse Band, well known for his stands regarding native fishing rights and federal recognition of the Grand Traverse Band; The Schaub family and their famous relative, Emelia Schaub, who was the first female prosecutor in Michigan; and Augusta Rosenthal-Thompson, who in 1884 arrived in northern Michigan as the first woman physician to practice in this area.
The Legends’ exhibit will be open through October 25th. That Thursday this fall’s Legends’ activities will close with an afternoon workshop and evening presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Faue, Professor of American History and the History of Women at Wayne State University. The afternoon workshop is on genealogy and “Lost Mothers.” The evening talk is entitled: “Barriers and Gateways: Women, Gender, and the Professions in the United States.”
Don’t miss this opening celebration of the Legends of the Grand Traverse Region. These fall 2012 Legends events are only an introduction to continuing Legends activities. Over the next several years we will celebrating more Legends: People and families from diverse backgrounds who came together to build the community we live in today. Our next three Legends will be celebrated starting in March of 2013, with more Legends being announced in Fall of 2013, Spring of 2014, and hopefully far into the future.
The History Center of Traverse City thanks the Michigan Humanities Council for its crucial support of the Legends’ project. We also thank our Legends’ partners: The Grand Traverse Genealogical Society, the Northwest Lower Michigan Women’s History Project, Congregation Beth El, the Hispanic Apostolate of the Diocese of Gaylord, the Traverse City Human Rights Commission, Professor Jim Press of Northwestern Michigan College’s History Department, and Cindy Patek of the Grand Traverse Tribe’s Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center
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