Here. Additional coverage of the lobbying efforts of TransCanada in the Washington Post today.
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
Eighth Circuit Affirms Major Crimes Act Conviction of Juvenile; Member of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Here is the opinion in United States v. B.A.D.:
NYTs Article on Tribal Wind Power Projects
From the NYTs:
ROSEBUD, S.D. — The wind blows incessantly here in the high plains; screen doors do not last. Wind is to South Dakota what forests are to Maine or beaches are to Florida: a natural bounty and a valuable inheritance.
Native American tribes like the Rosebud Sioux now seek to claim that inheritance. If they succeed in building turbine farms to harness some of the country’s strongest and most reliable winds, tribal officials like Ken Haukaas believe, they could create a new economic underpinning for the 29,000 tribal members whose per capita annual income is about $7,700, less than a third the national average.
“We’re broke here,” Mr. Haukaas said. “We’re poor.” But, he added: “The wind is free. There’s energy here all the time.”
Oglala Sioux Tribe v. US Army Corps – Land Transfer in Missouri River Basin
The district court dismissed Oglala Sioux Tribe’s suit challenging the “transfer of lands and recreational areas and/or granting of perpetual leases for recreational areas in the Missouri River Basin to the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks (“South Dakota”), the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe under Title VI of the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (“WRDA”), Pub. L. No. 106-53, 113 Stat. 269 (1999), as amended by Pub. L. No. 106-541, 114 Stat. 2572 (2000).” Slip op. at 2.
Here are the materials:
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