Indian Law Bulletins Updated 9/30

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html

• Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. United States Department of the Interior (IGRA)
• Tule Lake Committee v. Federal Aviation Administration (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Adams v. Dodge (ICRA Habeas Corpus; Tribal Court Exhaustion Doctrine)
• Oxendine-Taylor v. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (ICRA)

U.S. Legislation - 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html

• S.4715 - A bill to grant Federal charter to the National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated.
• S.4750 - A bill to assist Tribal entities in deploying broadband using the 2.5 GHz spectrum band.
• S.4752 - A bill to establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy in the United States, and for other purposes.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

• Congress formally acknowledges 155-year-old betrayal of Warm Springs and Wasco tribes
• How anti-Indigeneity proliferates around the West and the world
• Fighting for what's sacred in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• Yakama Nation case could set precedent for sacred tribal sites in WA
• 100K tribal citizens can decide Michigan electoral votes
• Montana Sierra Club supports tribal management of National Bison Range
• Tribes and archaeologists want to protect Chaco region
• Navajo citizens challenge mail-in ballot ruling

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 9/16

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html

• Southcentral Foundation v. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (Declaratory Relief; Tribal Health Organizations)
• United States v. Begay (Federal Sentencing Disparities)
• Hackford v. State of Utah (Jurisdiction)
• Ak-Chin Community v. Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation & Drainage District (Water Rights)
• Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe v. Azar (IHS; Trust Relationship)
• Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation v. Bernhardt (Federal Trust Breach; Reservation Boundaries)
• The Shawnee Tribe v. Mnuchin (CARES Act)

U.S. Legislation - 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html

• S.2558 - Nursing Home Care for Native American Veterans Act
• S.4556 - A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Indian Health Service, to acquire private land to facilitate access to the Desert Sage Youth Wellness Center in Hemet, California, and for other purposes.
• S.4562 - A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to the collection and availability of health data with respect to Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, and for other purposes.
• H.R.8216 - To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a Native VetSuccess at Tribal Colleges and Universities Pilot Program.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2020.html

• Indigenous nuclear injuries and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA): Reframing compensation toward Indigenous-led environmental reparations.
• Are Indian tribes really "domestic dependent nations?": The fight for sovereign immunity in Wilkes v. PCI Gaming Authority.
• Federal approval of oil pipelines and Indigenous consultation in the United States after Standing Rock and Keystone XL: Lessons from Canada on the limits of industry-Indigenous consultation.
• The scope of tribal immunity in real property disputes.
• The Cherokee Nation, John Marshall, and the stadial theory of development.
• Sense and census building: Capturing tribal realities in the U.S. Census.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

• The Inuit Circumpolar Council Alaska releases Inuit-led report: Food Sovereignty and Self-Governance — Inuit Role in Arctic Marine Resource Management
• Senate Democrats call on FCC chairman to expeditiously address the digital divide in Indian Country
• Native American Youth and Family Center, Community Development Partners, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians break ground on new affordable housing in Portland, Oregon's Cully neighborhood
• More Choctaws Have Died of COVID Than Those Who Died of the Disease in Hawaii. Or Alaska. Or Wyoming.
• Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission responds to United Nations Special Rapporteur’s Report
• Tribal perspectives key to Rio Grande study
• O'odham water & land defenders arrested halting border wall
• Tribal nations face continued voter suppression
• StrongHearts Native Helpline receives grant to address surge in domestic violence
• Wyoming tribe's chair says tribal members were turned away from ER at pandemic's start
• Arts Scene: Tulsa museums to host major shows featuring Indigenous women artists

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 9/10

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html

• Jamul Action Committee v. Simermeyer (IGRA; Sovereign Immunity)
• Nanouk v. United States (FTCA)
• Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation v. State of California (IGRA)
• Genskow v. Prevost (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2020.html
Matter of Dependency of Z.J.G (ICWA)

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2020.html

• The civil jurisdictional landscape in eastern Oklahoma post McGirt v. Oklahoma.
• Bringing back the great bear: Challenges and opportunities of Grizzly restoration in the Northern Rockies.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

• NARF is accepting applications for the 2021 summer law clerkships now until September 18th. Learn more at https://www.narf.org/contact-us/join-team/clerks/
• Alaska lawsuit calls for safer voting process during pandemic
• 'It's up to us': Census response risks undercount, underfunding for North Dakota tribes
• South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition members showcase successful Native veterans homeownership models
• Coalition of Indian tribes, foster youth group, and LGBTQ+ youth orgs file suit to fight Trump administration’s failure to count children in foster care
• EPA unveils Western office to focus on abandoned mine tracking, cleanup
• Squaw Valley Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe to change name from the 'racist and sexist slur'
• Chickasaw student grabs spot in Johns Hopkins European master's program

NILL Receives IMLS Grant to improve access to Tribal Laws

 
NILL and our partners have been awarded a three year National Leadership Grants for Libraries grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  We will receive a portion of the $239,087 granted for our Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project which endeavors to improve access to tribal laws. Our project, which was one of 38 projects that received an IMLS grant, is featured on the IMLS award announcement: 

The University of Wisconsin Law Library, in partnership with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, the UW Law School Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center, the National Indian Law Library, and the Open Law Library, will develop The Digital Publication of Tribal Laws Pilot Project. The project will develop an open law library platform that will empower libraries to improve access to tribal laws published into the public domain and will demonstrate the benefits of the combined platforms for tribes, their members, academia, the legal profession, and the public by creating a fully-functional tribal legal ecosystem.

We’re excited to have received this grant and to work with our partners to continue NILL’s mission of improving access to tribal laws.

Indian Law Bulletins Update 9/3

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html

• Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan v. Bureau of Land Management (National Environmental Policy Act)
• San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Azar (ISDEAA)
• Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation v. McKee (Tribal Courts; Water Rights)
• United States v. Smith (Federal Jurisdiction; Indian Country Land Status)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2020.html
United Auburn Indian Community of the Auburn Rancheria v. Newsom (IGRA)
Samish Indian Nation v. Department of Licensing (Indian Taxation)

U.S. Legislation - 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html

• H.R.8127 - To direct the Federal Trade Commission to submit to Congress a report on unfair or deceptive acts or practices targeted at Indian Tribes or members of Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2020.html

• The cultural property conundrum: The case for a nationalistic approach and repatriation of the Moai to the Rapa Nui.
• Cooking food customs in the pot of self-governance: How food sovereignty is a necessary ingredient of Tribal sovereignty.
• Analyzing the implications of the Supreme Court's holding in Analyzing the implications of the Supreme Court's holding in Herrera v. Wyoming.
• The other non-renewable resource: Cultural resource protection in a changing energy future.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

• NARF: Webinars on Indigenous Peoples & Intellectual Property for Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and community members
• Protect Indian Child Welfare Act Campaign partners applaud lawsuit challenging data collection withdrawal in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Final Rule
• National Native organizations call for Congressional action in light of new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report
• Navajo Nation statement on the execution of Lezmond Charles Mitchell
• Will vote-by-mail leave out Native Americans?
• Changing the narrative: Tribes help create exhibit to tell the violent history of Bosque Redondo
• Crow Tribe partners with Montana Native Vote to get members counted in the 2020 Census
• Tribal nations are decolonizing cultural protection