News
Gloria Valencia-Weber Wins NLADA’s Pierce Hickerson Award
Here.
Blast from the Past — American Indian Law Center Newsletters c. 1973, 1974
Back before the internets, Indian law news traveled analog by snail mail in colorful newsletters. . . .
There’s a bunch of these here you have the bandwidth to download large pdfs. . . .
Bad River and Flambeau Demand Inclusion in Wisconsin Grants (All Other Nine Tribes Received Grants)
NYTs Story on Indian Boarding Schools
Here.
Coverage of Rep. Elect Peltola’s Win
Alaska elected its first Alaska Native to represent it in Congress. Rep. Elect Peltola is Yup’ik and grew up in Bethel, Alaska. A few things to note–this was a special election to replace Rep. Young, so there will be another election in November for the regular election. This was also Alaska’s first use of ranked voting and an open primary, something that many democratic reformers believe is a fairer process for elections.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1120327126/palin-peltola-begich-alaska-special-house-election-results
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62747378
DFP: “Detroit police break up Native sugarbush ceremony, saying ‘sovereign stuff is not valid’”
Here.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and Spirit Lake Tribe v. Jaeger
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Spirit Lake Tribe, and several individual voters filed suit in North Dakota challenging North Dakota’s state legislative map as unlawfully diluting the voting rights of Native Americans in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). You can see the complaint here.
Press release is here.
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