Briefs and lower court materials here.
Federal Circuit Affirms Council for Tribal Employment Rights v. United States Without Opinion
Briefs and lower court materials here.
Spirit Lake Nation
WaPo Story on Native Youth Suicide
Here. An important read.
Federal Circuit Briefs in Council for Tribal Employment Rights v. United States
Spirit Lake Employee Group’s Contract Claims against Feds Dismissed
Here are the materials in Council for Tribal Employment Rights v. United States (Fed. Cl.):
1-Council for Tribal Employment Rights Complaint
48-Council Motion for Partial Summary J
DCT Order Dismissing Complaint
An excerpt:
Council for Tribal Employment Rights (“Council”), a national intertribal nonprofit organization which represents the employment interests of certain Indian tribes, seeks $500,000 in damages for the alleged breach of two agreements which involved the Council, the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (“the Office”), a component of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (“the Bureau”), U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Spirit Lake Tribe (“Spirit Lake” or “the Tribe”), a federally recognized Indian tribe. Both agreements were executed as amendments to an existing contract between the Office and Spirit Lake. The first, Amendment 2, involved the provision of funds to support a Native Construction Careers Initiative (“NCCI”) commercial construction training program, and called upon the Council to conduct the training program. The second, Amendment 6, allocated funds to support training projects approved by the Federal Highway Administration (“FHWA”). The statement of work for that Amendment referenced an FHWA training program agreement which contemplated that the Council would provide training to develop certain certification programs for road construction activities.
BIA Job Openings at Spirit Lake (Fort Totten Agency)
NYTs: Federal Officials Accuse Spirit Lake Tribal Leaders of Covering Up Child Sexual Abuse
Here.
An excerpt:
The tribe, according to federal and state administrators, has not conducted required background checks before placing foster children, failed to make mandated monthly visits to children in foster care and illegally removed foster children from homes and placed them elsewhere without determining that the new homes would be safe.
Unease about the tribe’s ability to adequately safeguard children has escalated in the past several weeks after two scathing, detailed e-mails were sent by federal officials to their superiors at the Department of Health and Human Services, alleging misconduct by reservation officials.
In a June 14 e-mail sent to his managers in Washington, Thomas F. Sullivan, the regional administrator for the Administration for Children and Families for six states, called on the government to declare a state of emergency at Spirit Lake, cut off the reservation’s federal financing and charge the tribe’s leader with child endangerment to combat what he described as “daunting” child abuse being covered up by the tribe.
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