Here:
News coverage here.
News
Report of Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Here (weblink) and here (pdf).
80. But despite positive steps, daunting challenges remain. Canada faces a continuing crisis when it comes to the situation of indigenous peoples of the country. The well-being gap between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in Canada has not narrowed over the last several years, treaty and aboriginals claims remain persistently unresolved, indigenous women and girls remain vulnerable to abuse, and overall there appear to be high levels of distrust among indigenous peoples toward government at both the federal and provincial levels.
Office of Hawaiian Trustees Asking Secretary of State for Legal Determination on State of Hawai’i under International Law
Here are the materials:
050514_KP_Letter_to_US_State_Dept
223206157-Rescind-letter-to-Secretary-of-State-John-Kerry
Press release here (5/9/14): Continue reading
Patton Boggs Agrees to Pay Chevron in Ecuadorian Pollution Case
NYTs OpEd on Unsustainable Dams
Here.
An excerpt:
A case in point is the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, where two hydroelectric dams built early in the last century exacted huge environmental costs but were no longer important as power generators. Salmon runs that once reached about 400,000 fish a year dropped to fewer than 3,000. A year after the Elwha Dam was removed, Chinook salmon returned to the river in numbers not seen in decades, with three-quarters of them observed spawning upstream of the former dam site. Today, the river runs free from its headwaters in Olympic National Park to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and a terrible wrong imposed on the salmon-dependent Lower Elwha Klallam tribe has been righted.
Anishinabe and English Road Signs in St. Louis County, MN
Bilingual road signs, to be paid for by the Fond du Lac Tribe, have been granted preliminary approval by St. Louis County. The signs will be posted on county roads within the reservation. More here.
NYTs on Increasing Congressional Pressure toward Changing Washington Football Team Nickname
Here, “Senator Urges N.F.L. to Change Name of Redskins.”
NYTs Article on Chickasaw Member Running for US Senate
Here.
Minneapolis Mayor Delivers State of the City Address at Minneapolis American Indian Center
The article from The Circle is here.
Payment of Contract Support Costs is Mandatory – Why Isn’t the Funding?
Attorneys from Hobbs Strauss have prepared a proposal to enact permanent mandatory funding appropriations for contract support costs under the ISDEAA. The proposal is here:
White Paper and Proposal – Final
They also have an editorial in the ICT on this matter.
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