Indian Law Bulletins Updated 10/27/21

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2021.html

• Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians v. Caballero (Trademark Disputes)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2021.html

• In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: F.J.V., Parent.(Indian Child Welfare Act)
• In re Benjamin M. v. Guadalupe G. (Indian Child Welfare Act)
• State of Oklahoma v. Lawhorn (McGirt v. Oklahoma, Quapaw Indian Reservation)

U.S. Legislation - 117th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/117_uslegislation.html

• S.3051 - A bill to assist Tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land.
• H.R.5735 - To amend title VI of the Social Security Act to allow States and local governments to use coronavirus relief funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act for infrastructure projects, improve the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund, provide Tribal governments with more time to use Coronavirus Relief Fund payments, 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/2021.html

• Abolition, settler colonialism, and the persistent threat of Indian child welfare.
• Twentieth century Black and Native activism against the child taking system: Lessons for the present.
• Assimilation, removal, discipline, and confinement: Native girls and government invention.
• Indigenous perspectives on corporate governance.

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

• Wisconsin Ojibwe tribes applaud state court's decision prohibiting Department of Natural Resources from issuing licenses to hunt wolves
• Quapaw Nation land affirmed as Indian Country
• Tribes want to stop jailing people for suicide attempts
• Navajo Nation pushes for radioactive waste remnants to be removed
• Good Medicine, Part 1: The Native American Community Clinic integrates Western and Indigenous traditional healing models to foster community resiliency
• Tribes ponder Commerce Department’s understanding of tribal broadband needs
• Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs
• EPA finally has an action plan to improve water infrastructure and sanitation for US tribes
• Book spotlights Native American women who lived on Mackinac Island
• ‘It’s who we are’: Apache people take fight for sacred site to federal court
• Stream these Indigenous-made films from the Portland Film Festival

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 10/20/21

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2021-2022update.html

• Two petitions for certiorari were granted this week on 10/18/21:
• Denezpi v. United States (Tribal Courts; Double Jeopardy; Court of Indian Offenses)
• Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas (Indian Gaming; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2021.html

• Treasure v. Bureau of Indian Affairs (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Blackcrow v. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Police Department (Tribal Police; Jurisdiction)
• Danks v. Slawson Exploration Company (Trespass; Allotments)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2021.html

• In re Banks (Indian Child Welfare Act; Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act)

U.S. Legislation - 117th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/117_uslegislation.html

• S.3011 - A bill to amend title VI of the Social Security Act to allow States and local governments to use coronavirus relief funds provided under the American Rescue Plan Act for infrastructure projects, improve the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund, provide Tribal governments with more time to use Coronavirus Relief Fund payments, and for other purposes.

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

• Fawn Sharp re-elected to second term as president of National Congress of American Indians; more NCAI election results
• Nevada’s Thacker Pass highlights how federal courts routinely dismiss Indigenous concerns
• Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts roundtable on economic sovereignty
• MIT reckons with early leader's role in forced removal of Native American tribes
• Oklahoma City Indian Clinic deploys LightStrike germ-zapping robots
• Red Lake Indian Nation celebrates groundbreaking ceremony for tribe's first charter school, Endazhi-Nitaawiging
• Indigenous mapping workshop encourages sovereignty through cartography
• Seattle is seeing a surge of Indigenous public art

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 10/14/21

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2021-2022update.html

• One petition for certiorari was denied this week on 10/12/21:
• Clay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (Land Use; Indian Taxation)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2021.html

• Ray v. United States (Federal Tort Claims Act)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2021.html

• State ex rel. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma v. Sifferman (Indian Child Welfare Act)

U.S. Legislation - 117th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/117_uslegislation.html

• S.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021
• S.2985 - A bill to amend the Indian Self-Determination Act and the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to provide advance appropriations authority for certain accounts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education of the Department of the Interior and the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.
• H.Res.709 - Recognizing that the land that is now known as the United States of America was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples known as Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives.
• H.R.5549 - To amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize advance appropriations for the Indian Health Service by providing 2-fiscal-year budget authority, and for other purposes.
• H.R.5567 - Indian Programs Advance Appropriations Act of 2021

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2021.html

• Using peacemaking circles to Indigenize tribal child welfare.

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

• Bears Ears/Grand Staircase-Escalante/Northeast Canyons and Seamounts proclamations signed
• How the U.S. legal system ignores tribal law
• Oil pipeline protesters are building trauma support centers
• Michigan tribes to Biden: Enbridge Line 5 threatens our treaty rights
• The Indian Child Welfare Act faces its biggest challenge yet
• Tribes, advocates work to fix a 30-year-old loophole in federal law
• Vice President Kamala Harris addresses NCAI
• After denying care to Black Natives, Indian Health Service reverses policy
• Indigenous leaders at the frontlines of environmental injustice and solutions
• 7 questions about Freedmen answered
• A new cookbook by Indigenous people, for Indigenous people
• Native Americans take over the writers' room and tell their own stories

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 10/6/21

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2021-2022update.html

• Two petitions for certiorari were denied this week on 10/4/21:
• Jamul Action Committee, et al. v. Simermeyer, et al. (Sovereign Immunity; Federally Recognized Tribes)
• Perkins v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (Indian Taxation)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2021.html

• Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe v. United States (Indian Health Service; Contract Support Costs)
• Yurok Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation (Klamath Water Basin; Endangered Species Act; Water Rights)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2021.html

• Laws v. Greyeyes (Voting Rights)

U.S. Legislation - 117th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/117_uslegislation.html

• S.2907/H.R.5444 - To establish the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, and for other purposes.

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

• Muscogee Nation citizen Lauren J. King confirmed by US Senate to serve as federal district judge
• Indian tribes are governing well. It's the states that are failing
• Cherokee Nation detention costs jump from $37,000 to $800,000-plus
• Listen: The impact of the Native American vote on U.S. elections
• President Biden to nominate Navajo citizen Shelly Lowe to be chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
• Cowlitz comic releases Comedy Central video: 'How to cope with your team changing its Native American mascot'
• New California law aims to help more Black and Indigenous people survive childbirth
• Oklahoma State University to develop Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity
• ‘No one is illegal on stolen Indigenous land’: Native activist speaks out on viral encounter
• National speaker to offer tools for better understanding Native American traumas
• Toppled statue to be replaced with memorial to tribes
• The time of the Indigenous critic has arrived