Here are the materials in Cherokee Nation v. Nash (D.D.C.):
234 Federal Defendants – Expert Report in Support of Partial Summary Judgment
243 Federal Defendants’ Reply to Cherokee Opposition to Cross-Motion for Partial Summary Judgment
243-1 Ex 1 to Federal Reply Brief
Here are the materials in Wild Fish Conservancy v. National Park Service (W.D. Wash.):
153 Wild Fish Conservancy Motion for Summary J
Here is the opening brief in Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. State of Wisconsin:
7th Circuit FINAL Night Hunting Opening Brief
Lower court materials here.
With all of the depressing Indian Law cases that we read, it is always nice to remember the victories.
This is taken from the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission’s Facebook page:
Honoring Treaty Day 2014
A unique Ojibwe holiday, GLIFWC bands established Treaty Day following the US Supreme Court ruling in the Minnesota v. Mille Lacs case. That decision, issued 15 years ago today, found that reserved rights in the Minnesota 1837 ceded territory continued to exist—a ruling that supported earlier court decrees on other ceded lands and waters.
To the treaty-era Ojibwe headmen, tribal harvesters (across the centuries), legal experts, caretakers of treaty resources, and today’s men and women that lead tribes into the 21st Century: Chi Miigwech! COR
Half hour show on the 1855 Treaty and treaty rights generally.
Her piece in The Circle is here.
Here.
American Indian tribal members arrested while exercising their treaty fishing rights before 1975 would get the chance to clear their criminal records under a bill headed to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk.
House Bill 2080 passed the Senate unanimously Wednesday. It passed the House in February.
The measure would allow tribal members to apply to the sentencing court to expunge their related misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor or felony convictions. Family members and tribal officials also could seek a vacated criminal record on behalf of a deceased person. The court would have the discretion to vacate the conviction, unless certain conditions apply, such as if the person was convicted for a violent crime or crime against a person.
via @SmithsonianNMAI
James D. Leach has published “Bad Men Among the Whites” Claims After Richard v. United States” in the New Mexico Law Review.
An excerpt:
This article contends that Richard provides Indians with exactly what they bargained for and received when their tribes negotiated and signed treaties with the United States. The government is unlikely to return the parties to their pre-agreement status by returning to Indians the lands they gave up in treaties. The right of Indians to receive what the government promised them in exchange for large amounts of tribal land would seem to be beyond moral or legal dispute. But as we will see, even these seemingly self-evident principles are now disputed.
Our post on the Richard case is here.
Here are the new materials in Smith v. Parker (D. Neb.):
136 Village of Pender Response
Cross-motions for summary judgment and briefs are here. Prior posts here, here, and here.
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