This Thursday, April 15, 2021, the University of South Dakota is hosting an ICWA Educational Zoom Conference. For more details, please click here:
Update: Please click the following Zoom link to join!
Does Brackeen v. Haaland Apply:
This document is primarily for non-lawyers, so while you can @ me about details, there is a reason this document doesn’t get into the nitty gritty question of federal court jurisdiction in state court trials (please note the work the word “may” is doing). We hope this will be helpful for tribal social workers, their state counterparts, reporters, and maybe some lawyers who are trying to understand the implications of a 325 page decision.
CFP for ILPC/TICA Conference
Are you an in-house attorney addressing one of these issues?
-Self Governance
-Consultation Practices
-Amicus Briefs
-Insight from Current Judicial Clerks
-Traditional Knowledge in the Law
-ICWA
-Hot Topics
Each year, the Indigenous Law Conference has 8 panels plus a keynote speaker. Current TICA members interested in presenting on the above topics, with a focus on the tribal in-house practice of law, are invited to submit their individual presentation proposals. ILPC/TICA will form panels. Proposals must be submitted by May 1, 2021. The Conference will be hosted November 4-5, 2021 with pre-conference activities on November 3. For more information, click the buttons below.
Prisoner Complaint against Pokagon Tribal Police Dismissed
Federal Suit against MHA Nation-Affiliated Lending Business Stayed Pending Fourth Circuit Decision in Hengle v. Treppa
Here are the materials in Manago v. Cane Bay Partners VII LLLP (D. Md.):
82 DCT Order Granting Motion for Stay
The briefs in Hengle v. Treppa are here.
Kristen Carpenter’s Book Review of McNally’s “Defending the Sacred” in the Harvard Law Review
Kristen A. Carpenter has published “Living The Sacred: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Freedom” in the Harvard Law Review, reviewing Michael McNally’s “Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment.”
NYTs: “A Push to Move the Golf Course Atop a Native American ‘Stonehenge’”
Here.
WaPo: “This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it”
Here.
Wisconsin Federal Court Holds Tax Immunities Do Not Apply to Reacquired Reservation Land
Here are the relevant materials in Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Evers (W.D. Wis.):
153 State Motion for Summary J
171 Towns and Assessors Motion for Summary J
172 Tribe Motion for Summary J
223 State Reply in Support of 153
228 Towns and Assessors Reply in Support of 171
232 Tribe Reply in Support of 172
Prior post here.
New Yorker Profile of Mary Kathryn Nagle
Here.
Turtle Talk 
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