Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2025.html
- State of Alaska v. Department of the Interior et al. (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA); Motion to Transfer)
- Rosales, et al. v. Roman Catholic Bishop of San Diego, et al. (Federal Jurisdiction; Required Party; Sanctions)
- Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation v. Morse (Tribal Sovereignty; Injunctive Relief)
- Weidley, et al. v. Aaniiih Nakoda Finance LLC, et al. (Tribal Lending; Tribal Sovereign Immunity; Necessary Party)
U.S. Legislation - 119th Congress Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/119_uslegislation.html
- S.2140 - A bill to establish Haskell Indian Nations University as a federally chartered educational institution to fulfill the treaty and trust responsibility of the Federal Government to Indians, and for other purposes.
- H.R.4085 - To establish Haskell Indian Nations University as a federally chartered educational institution to fulfill the treaty and trust responsibility of the Federal Government to Indians, and for other purposes.
U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2025.html
- Employment and Training (ETA) Program Year (PY) 2025 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Section 166, Indian and Native American Programs Grantee Allotments (Labor)
Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/currentlr.html
- The “arm” that saves you might also strangle you: The impact of sovereign immunity on economic arms of Tribes and how it could affect others’ willingness to contract with them.
- Case law on American Indians: September 2023-August 2024.
- Development and practice of Tribal community planning: Ensuring Indigeneity in the planning process.
- Indigenous perspective to climate and environment.
- Institutions and economic development.
- Into the jurisdictionverse: How tangled jurisdictional lines around Indian Country thwart attempts to end the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
- Is this land your land? Or is this land my land?: The ongoing boundary dispute between Mille Lacs County and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
- Landback as federal policy.
- The Native fight for hunting rights: The Crow Tribe and Herrera v. Wyoming.
- The need for law in federal Indian law: A response to Maggie Blackhawk in light of the Supreme Court’s troubling term for Tribal sovereignty.
- The Onondaga Nation's land claim: Rights without a remedy?
- Tribal authority to issue search warrants to non-Tribal entities or on non-Indian land within reservation boundaries.
News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:
- Kansas federal lawmakers want Haskell Indian Nations University to control itself
- A guide to the federal review of the Line 5 tunnel
- Apache Stronghold files another petition asking U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its case
- Montana law faces challenge over impact on Indigenous voting rights
- Interview with John Echohawk highlights decades-long focus on Tribal water rights
