Here are the materials in Stockbridge-Munsee Community v. State of New York (N.D. N.Y.):
Stockbridge-Munsee Amended Complaint with Maps
State Defendants Motion to Dismiss
County-Muni Defendants Motion to Dismiss
Oneida Indian Nation of New York
Prepared Witness Testimony in SCIA Oversight Hearing on the Trust Responsibility
Here:
Panel # 1
Ms. Melody McCoy
Staff Attorney
Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO
Mr. Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center
Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI
Mr. Daniel Rey-Bear
Partner
Nordhaus Law Firm, LLP, Albuquerque, NM
Panel # 2
Mr. Ray Halbritter
Nation Representative
Oneida Indian Nation, Verona, NY
The Honorable Fawn Sharp
President
Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, WA
The Honorable Brooklyn D. Baptiste
Vice-Chairman
Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, ID
I don’t see Jicarilla’s testimony here.
NYTs: Quoting Haudenosaunee Leaders on Obama’s Promises to Indian Country
Here is the article. An excerpt:
Robert Porter, the president of the Seneca nation in Western New York, said in an interview with the Caucus that Mr. Obama had failed to purse a legislative agenda that would help empower the American Indian nations and improve the economic situation for residents.
“The administration is very easily co-opting us with lofty promises of supporting the nation-to-nation relationship but then not following through,” Mr. Porter said. “We need to have support for meaningful tribal economic empowerment.”
Mr. Porter’s tribe has clashed with the administration over legislation passed last year that banned the direct sales of cigarettes through the mail. The Seneca nation had been an aggressive seller of cigarettes by mail and denounced the legislation as a means of crippling economic activity on American Indian reservations.
A news release in March from the Seneca nation accused Mr. Obama of “deliberately betraying” American Indians by signing the legislation into law.
N.Y. Oneida Employees Targeting Anti-Tribal Legislators in Upcoming Election
From the Utica Observer-Dispatch via Pechanga:
A group of Oneida Indian Nation employees is launching a get out the vote effort for Tuesday’s elections, and they are targeting an Oneida county legislator who has opposed the Nation on numerous issues.
“There has been a lot of opposition in my community against the Nation, which is my employer,” said Kelli Bradley, a legal administrator for the Nation. “I would like to have someone put into office who is willing to work with us and make things better.”
Her legislator is Democratic Majority Leader Michael Hennessy of Sherrill.
Hennessy has been vocal in his opposition to the Nation on issues ranging from taxation to sovereignty.
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