August 27, 2025

Indian Law Bulletins Updated August 27, 2025

Federal Courts Bulletin

  • Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall Reservation v. U.S. Department of the Interior, et al. (Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA); Tribal Land Cession Agreement)
  • Halverson v. Burgum (Sovereign Immunity; Settlement Agreement; Allotment Lands)

Tribal Courts Bulletin

  • Hazelton v. Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Indians (Subject Matter Jurisdiction; Right of Way)
  • Fort Peck Tribes v. Desiree Scheaffer (Indian Civil Rights Act; Probable Cause)
  • In the Matter of: MH, TH, TD and Concerning Katrina Follet v. Ernesto Hernandez (Child Custody; Motion for Review; Failure to Appear)

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin

  • Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish (Commerce)
  • Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish (Commerce)
  • Receipt of Request for Authorization To Re-Petition for Federal Acknowledgment as an American Indian Tribe (Interior)
  • Rate Adjustments for Indian Irrigation Projects (Interior)

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin

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  • Can the Roberts Court find federal Indian law?
  • Federal Indian law in a time of judicial self-aggrandizement.
  • Homelands not graveyards.
  • Indigenous Peoples in international (treaty) diplomacy.
  • Indigenous rights to culture: What’s next?
  • "The seed is the law": Creating new governance frameworks for Indigenous heirloom seeds and traditional knowledge.
  • Separation-of-powers formalism and federal Indian law: The question of executive order reservations.
  • The Supreme Court’s old habits in a new era? Native Nations, statehood, and an Indigenous-led future for natural resources.
  • Tribal law innovations in Native governance.
  • Tribal revestiture.
  • Tribal sovereignty, Justice Gorsuch, and the letter of the law.
  • What we talk about when we talk about (Indian) sovereignty: Montana and the application of general statutes to Tribes.

News Bulletin

This week, in brief:

  • Federal appeals court preserves Alaska’s two-tier system for subsistence fishing management
  • Justice Gorsuch and what is owed to American Indians
  • Courts, treaties, and power — A conversation with John Echohawk
  • Oklahoma governor takes aim at Tulsa mayor’s decision to prosecute crimes in Tribal courts
  • The Colorado River is this Tribe’s ‘lifeblood,’ now they want to give it the same legal rights as a person

Announcements

  • The Native American Rights Fund is hiring a Staff Attorney in the Alaska office. Learn more about the vacancy on our website.