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U.S. Federal Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2017.html
Massachusetts v. Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act – Tribal Governmental Power)

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2017.html
The Department of Interior has published a notice about a listening session scheduled to help improve the Land Buy-Back program for tribal nations under the Cobell settlement.

News Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
In the Tribal Government section, we include an article about a victory for a tribe regarding jurisdiction over gaming.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2017.html
The following articles were added:
Native nations and the Constitution: An inquiry into “extra-constitutionality.”
What the future holds: The changing landscape of federal Indian policy.
Roadway to reform: Assessing the 2015 guidelines and new federal rule to the Indian Child Welfare Act’s applications in State courts.
Capital, inequality, and self-determination: Creating a sovereign financial system for Native American nations.
Why Indigenous Peoples’ property rights matter: Why the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples may be used to condemn Isis and the State of Iraq for their failure to protect the property rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Nineveh Plains.
Defending the Cobell buy-back program.
Intellectual property rights and informed consent in American Indian communities: Legal and ethical issues.
Raising capital in Indian Country.
Christman v. Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde: A chapter in the disenrollment epidemic.
The dynamic legal environment of daily fantasy sports.
Trespass to culture: The bioethics of Indigenous populations’ informed consent in mainstream genetic research paradigms.

U.S. Legislation Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/115_uslegislation.html
Two bills were added:
S.825: Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Land Transfer Act of 2017.
H.R.2035: Tribal Adoption Parity Act.

Tribal Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/tribal/pre2016.html
Christman v. Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (Disenrollment)

Current Issue of American Indian Law Review (Vol. 41, No. 1)

April 17, 2017Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Vol. 41, No. 1 (2016-2017)

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Article

Capital, Inequality, and Self-Determination: Creating a Sovereign Financial System for Native American Nations – W. Gregory Guedel, Ph.D and J. D. Colbert

Comments

Why Indigenous Peoples’ Property Rights Matter: Why the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples May Be Used to Condemn Isis and the State of Iraq for Their Failure to Protect the Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Nineveh Plains – Brooke E. Hamilton

Defending the Cobell Buy-Back Program – Rebekah Martin

Intellectual Property Rights and Informed Consent in American Indian Communities: Legal and Ethical Issues– Naomi Palosaari

Raising Capital in Indian Country – Evan Way
Note

Christman v. Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde: A Chapter in the Disenrollment Epidemic – Tabitha Minke

Special Features

The Dynamic Legal Environment of Daily Fantasy Sports – Elizabeth Lohah Homer

Trespass to Culture: The Bioethics of Indigenous Populations’ Informed Consent in Mainstream Genetic Research Paradigms – Alexandra Winters

Op-Ed in Maclean’s About Canada’s Child Welfare Crisis

April 17, 2017April 17, 2017Kate Fort

Here, by Pam Palmater. Canada’s numbers of Native children in care may be currently worse than pre-ICWA numbers in the United States (Task Force Four Report).

The increasing number of First Nations children being placed into foster care in Canada is nothing short of a crisis. Although Indigenous children make up only seven per cent of the population in Canada, they represent 48 per cent of all children in foster care. It is an astounding number until one examines these rates on a province-by-province basis. In Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Indigenous children represent a shocking 73 per cent, 85 per cent and 87 per cent of all children in care respectively, according to the most recent Statistics Canada report. However, Manitoba reports that their numbers of Indigenous children in care are increasing and currently stands at 90 per cent, which represents one of the highest rates in the world. This isn’t much of a surprise given that one newborn is taken away from his or her mother every day in Manitoba as a matter of course—the vast majority being Indigenous. They are not the only provinces implicated as Indigenous children in Ontario are 168 per cent more likely to be taken into care than white children.

NYTs: “The Ramapoughs vs. the World: Will an oil pipeline proposed for tribal lands destroy the Ramapough Lenape Nation along the New Jersey-New York border?”

April 15, 2017April 14, 2017Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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NAICJA/NCJFJC Free Webinar on Peacemaking, April 24

Quileute Environmental Attorney Job Posting

New Volume of Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance

Current Issue, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2017

Front Matter

Editorial

Illustration

Photography

Articles

Photography Continued

Poetry

Tribal Judge Profiles in The Federal Lawyer

D.C. Circuit Briefs in Amador County v. Dept. of Interior

SCOTUS Denies Cert in Sun v. Mashantucket

National Indian Law Library Bulletin (4/4/2017)

Current Issue of American Indian Law Review (Vol. 41, No. 1)

Op-Ed in Maclean’s About Canada’s Child Welfare Crisis

NYTs: “The Ramapoughs vs. the World: Will an oil pipeline proposed for tribal lands destroy the Ramapough Lenape Nation along the New Jersey-New York border?”