Here.
More on Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante: White House Fact Sheet on proclamations to be signed
Here.
Research
Michigan Tribes in the News (10/7/2021)
The Sault News: Governor Whitmer, cabinet members meet with Tribal leaders
WaPo: ‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents
Michigan Advance: Mich. tribal leaders praise Warren bill addressing Native boarding school trauma
Michigan Radio: Stateside: Michigan’s Native boarding schools; kids and past pandemics; Whitmer kidnapping plot case
Green Matters: The Line 5 Pipeline May Unfortunately Continue Running for the Long Haul
The Sault News: Op-Ed: End the filibuster to protect Indian voting rights
Indian Law Issues in the News (10/7/2021)
NYTs: Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language From Extinction, Dies at 87
AP: Maryland does not display Native American COVID-19 data
NBC News: Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionally killed by Covid-19 last year, study says
HCN: How the U.S. legal system ignores Tribal law
Kotaradio.com: Sen. Mike Rounds Introduces Tribal Food Sovereignty Act
WTOP.com: Hawaii panel shines light on missing, slain Indigenous girls
Tri-City Herald: Washington Tribes share these environmental concerns with Biden representative
Indian Law Issues in the News (10/6/2021)
NEH: President Biden Nominates Shelly Lowe (Navajo) to Chair the National Endowment for the Humanities Congratulations to Shelly!
NYTs: Indian Health Service ‘Willfully Ignored’ Sexual Abuse by Doctor, Report Finds
Grist: The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights
Grist: States, tribes, and NGOs hold polluters accountable in a ‘tidal wave’ of greenwashing lawsuits
Mercury News: San Jose State: Professor smiling with Native American skull ignites fiery debate
Navajo-Hopi Observer: First Native American poet laureate Joy Harjo begins third term, releases memoir
Mississippi COA Rejects Land Rights of “Chief of the Creek Indians East of the Mississippi”
Here is the opinion in Johnson v. Benton:
Congratulations to Lauren King!
In campaign for U.S. House, new ad for NC state Rep. Charles Graham (Lumbee) recalls Lumbee Tribe’s 1958 faceoff with the KKK
Click on the image below to view the ad:
Federal Court Orders State Bar Arbitration in Fee Dispute Arising out of Successful Trust Breach Claim
Here are the court orders in Givens v. Oenga (D. Alaska):
55 DCt Order re Motion for Stay
Materials on the underlying trust breach claim are here and show just how long we’ve been doing Turtle Talk.
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe brings second lawsuit against City of Seattle in Skagit dams controversy [updated with pleadings]
In a second lawsuit brought by the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe against the City of Seattle regarding the Skagit Hydroelectric Project, the Tribe requests an order restraining Seattle City Light from “greenwashing” itself; i.e., advertising itself as environmentally responsible. The Tribe claims that Seattle should be restrained from greenwashing until the city provides fish passage at its three Skagit River dams.
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v Seattle Complaint (King Cty. Super. Ct., Wash.)
Pleadings filed in the Sauk-Suiattle’s earlier ongoing dams/fish passage lawsuit against Seattle are available here.
Updated pleadings:
Indian Law Issues in the News (10/5/21)
Sun Herald: This Louisiana tribe lost most of its homes to Hurricane Ida. ‘This was the big one.’
GoSkagit.com: Legal battles unfold during Skagit River dam relicensing
The Circle: Dry conditions boost MN’s wild rice crop, but climate change leaves future uncertain
Red Green and Blue: Line 3 Pipeline is completed, but Water Protectors vow to keep fighting
Cherokee Phoenix: Post-McGirt, Cherokee Nation detention costs jump from $37,000 to $800,000-plus
Denver Post: Colorado’s Native American tribes kept in the dark on Bureau of Land Management decision to move HQ back to D.C.
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