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A leading bird conservation organization—American Bird Conservancy (ABC)—has announced its intention to sue the Department of the Interior (DOI), charging DOI with multiple violations of federal law in connection with its December 9, 2013, final regulation that allows wind energy companies and others to obtain 30-year permits to kill eagles without prosecution by the federal government. The previous rule provided for a maximum duration of five years for each permit.
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Nothing that you didn’t already know from Kate’s post Tuesday.
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He says the result could be that tribes think twice about investing money off the reservation.
“You can’t put it in your mattress,” he says. “But perhaps into overseas banks or something to that effect.”
Fletcher says it’s just one possible outcome. The court could also write a more limited decision. Fletcher says the least-likely outcome would be for the court to rule in favor of the Bay Mills Indian Community, which argues it is immune from lawsuit in this instance.
From WSJ: “Indian Tribes’ New Negotiating Power Costs Utilities.”
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The American Indian leaders ultimately decided how the findings would be handled, and they defended their decision to remove and rebury the human remains and burial artifacts.
“The philosophy of the tribe in general is that we would like to protect our cultural resources and leave them as is,” said Nick Tipon, a longtime member of the Sacred Sites Protection Committee of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. “The notion that these cultural artifacts belong to the public is a colonial view.”
The Yurok Tribe has entered an MOA with USFWS, other federal and state agencies, and a non-profit. As described here, captive birds will be reintroduced.
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On Feb. 24, 1976, a rancher in South Dakota was installing a fence on land situated along the edge of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when he spotted a body at the bottom of a 30-foot embankment. The badly decomposed corpse, in jeans and a maroon ski jacket, lay with knees pushed up toward chest. A coroner later determined that the woman had been dead for more than two months. The back of her head was matted with blood, and there was a single bullet wound at the base of her skull. She had been shot at close range.
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Here, from Alaska Indigenous Blog. Links to several news outlets on this story are on the blog.
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Every Alaska Native language will now be recognized as official languages of the State of Alaska in addition to English. The lone precedent is Hawai’i, which recognizes Hawai’ian as official in addition to English via constitutional convention in 1987. Many, many people worked very hard to get this bill through the 28th Alaska State Legislature, which will adjourn today or very early tomorrow morning.
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