Gizmodo: “Why a Drug Company Is Selling Patents to a Native American Tribe”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Nooksack Reaches Settlement with National Indian Gaming Commission

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Nooksack NIGC Settlement

Tribal and Federal Merits Briefs in Patchak v. Zinke

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

US Merits Brief

Gun Lake Merits Brief

Other briefs here.

Seattle Human Rights Commission Letter on Culverts Case

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Seattle Human Rights Commission Culvert_OpEd

An excerpt:

The Seattle Human Rights Commission writes in response to the Seattle Times recent editorial “The Supreme Court must clarify culvert ruling,” and seeks to correct inaccuracies regarding tribal treaty rights and the State’s obligation to not impair them. Washington’s tribal nations have lived and fished throughout our State since time immemorial, and their right to do so is protected by treaty. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an exhaustive and well researched opinion, recognized that this right requires the removal of culverts that block fish passage. The State’s decision to seek Supreme Court review of that decision reflects revisionist and troubling effort to weaken treaty rights.

Federal Court Grants Rule 19 Dismissal in Challenge to Navajo Mine and Four Corners Power Plant

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment v. Bureau of Indian Affairs (D. Ariz.):

50 Motion to Dismiss

56 US Opposition

57 Plaintiffs Opposition

61 Reply

64 DCT Order

Columbia Law School Indigenous Peoples Working Conference

Matthew L.M. Fletcher


COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL PRESENTS A WORKING CONFERENCE 
Identity and Implementation: The Next Ten Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Walter Echohawk, lunchtime keynote speaker

Saturday, November 4, 2017 

Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street, New York City

Federal Court Declines to Stay Mandate in Effort to Condemn Navajo Lands Saying Utility Loses Even if SCOTUS Reverses

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Public Service Company of New Mexico v. Approximately 15.49 Acres of Land in McKinley County (D.N.M.):

142 Motion to Confirm Stay Order

143 Response

145 Reply

147 DCT Order

Prior posts here.

ATL: State Legislatures Trying to Use Dakota Access Pipeline Protests as Excuse for Statutory Limits on Progressive or Anti-Fascist Speech

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

NYTs: “How to Protect a Drug Patent? Give it to a Native American Tribe”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

De-Escalate Washington Update

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

from Leslie Cushman:

On Friday September 8, the Native American Caucus of the Washington State Democrats unanimously endorsed Initiative 940 The initiative reforms police use of deadly force, and requires Tribal government involvement in policy making and in investigations. I-940 is an initiative to the Washington State Legislature, and if the legislature does not pass it as is, it will go on the November 2018 general election ballot.

Here is a link to the campaign, a document describing the values and content, and a document identifying the leadership. The Puyallup Tribe has a key role in this work and has been working tirelessly on this issue since the death of their beloved tribal member Jackie Salyers.

940 Policy and Values two sided full page portrait 9-7-17

Campaign leadership structure 8-28-17

In These Times: “The Police Killings No One is Talking About.”