Turtle Talk

Ninth Circuit Holds Salish Kootenai College is Arm of CSKT and therefore Immune from Suit

November 21, 2019Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished decision in McCoy v. Salish Kootenai College.

Briefs here.

How a Native American Resistance Held Alcatraz for 18 Months

November 20, 2019Teresa Walrod

On Nov. 20, 1969, more than 70 Native Americans gathered before dawn on a dock in San Francisco Bay. They boarded three boats and sailed from the small, foggy harbor in Sausalito, Calif., to Alcatraz Island. They intended to make landfall on territory belonging to the United States government with the intent of claiming it for themselves. Or reclaiming it, depending on your point of view.

HERE

National Indian Law Library Bulletin (11/19/2019)

November 19, 2019Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/index.html

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2019.html
Clements v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Tribal Jurisdiction)
FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Hazardous Waste Storage; Tribal Court Jurisdiction)

U.S. Legislation – 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html

S.2871 – A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income payments under the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program and certain amounts received under the Indian Health Professions Scholarships Program.
H.R.5153 – To assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and for the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian lands.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

Tribes’ water rights at Klamath River upheld by federal circuit court
Native American students left behind by S.D. education system
‘We want to be calling the shots’: Naat’aanii partnership poised to deliver Medicaid to Navajo
Yaqui, O’odham history and sovereignty in the borderlands
‘Homecoming’: Pueblo of Acoma set to reclaim sacred item
Cherokee Nation celebrates grand opening of largest tribal outpatient health center in country
How an Arrow Lakes elk hunt became a case of tribal recognition

Rhode Island Supreme Court on Active Efforts [ICWA]

November 19, 2019Kate Fort

Here.

A frustrating case–apparently the fact that ICWA is “complicated” and has been subject to Supreme Court litigation is reason for a social worker to not understand active efforts.