Turtle Talk

Texas Observer: “F is for Fake — How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.”

October 21, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas Cert Petition

October 21, 2020February 22, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Question presented:

Whether the Restoration Act provides the Pueblo with sovereign authority to regulate non-prohibited gaming activities on its lands (including bingo), as set forth in the plain language of Section 107(b), the Act’s legislative history, and this Court’s holding in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 480 U.S. 202 (1987), or whether the Fifth Circuit’s decision affirming Ysleta I correctly subjects the Pueblo to all Texas gaming regulations.

Lower court materials here.

Update:

Texas Brief in Opposition

Federal Bankruptcy Court Confirms Bankruptcy Act Does Not Abrogate Tribal Immunity [Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe]

October 21, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the relevant materials in In re Coughlin (D. Mass. Bkrcy.):

27 Motion to Enforce Automatic Stay

73-1 LDF Motion to Dismiss

74-1 LDF Businsess Corp Motion to Dismiss

82 Response to 73

84 Response to 74

92 Reply in Support of 73

93 Reply in Support of 74

97-1 Surreply

111 LDF Surreply to the Surreply

112 LDF Business Corp Surreply to the Surreply

113 Order

NYTs: “Rebecca Cryer, 73, Tribal Judge and Oklahoma City Bomb Survivor, Dies”

October 21, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

NYTs Obit of Max Osceola Jr.

October 20, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

CTFC Education Trainings and Webinar Series

October 20, 2020Monica Williamson

About the Trainings

CTFC in conjunction with ABC 4 IEP, will host two full day trainings that are “hands-on” where participants will be guided through scenarios. Register here.

About the Webinar Series

California Tribal Families Coalition in conjunction with ABC 4 IEP, will host a four-part webinar series to help provide tribal representatives and parents/caregivers with information to access early intervention services and support, and to equip tribal representatives and caregivers with the knowledge necessary to advocate for special education services as children reenter the education system during the COVID – 19 pandemic. Register here.