September 17, 2025

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 9/17/2025

Tribal Courts Bulletin

  • Ho-Chunk Nation Election Board v. Tahdooahnippah (Tribal Elections)

U.S. Legislation - 119th Congress Bulletin

  • S.2771 - 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.
  • S.2796 - A bill to provide for a land exchange in San Bernardino County, California, and for other purposes.
  • H.R.4584 - To make technical amendments to update statutory references to certain provisions which were formerly classified to chapters 14 and 19 of title 25, United States Code, and to correct related technical errors.
  • H.R.5257 - To reaffirm the trust status of land taken into trust by the United States pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934, for the benefit of an Indian Tribe that was federally recognized on the date that the land was taken into trust.
  • H.R.5327 - To extend Federal recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, and for other purposes.
  • H.R.5328 - 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.R.5378 - To provide a set-aside of funds for Indian populations under the health profession opportunity grant program under section 2008 of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin

  • Statement of Findings: Navajo-Utah Water Rights Settlement (Interior)

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin

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  • Beyond binary co-sovereignty: Native Nations & water compacts.
  • Can Tribal sovereign immunity undermine judicial review under the APA: Maverick Gaming LLC v. United States.
  • Compendium of exhibits from the papers of Supreme Court justices.
  • Damned if you do, dammed if you don't: Solutions for the Snake River and the Nez Perce Tribe.
  • Discovering the Doctrine of Discovery.
  • Indian casinos under the big sky: Why Tribes in other states have been more successful with gaming and the path forward for Montana's Tribes.
  • Indian water rights settlements and the Animas-La Plata project: A self-fulfilling prophecy of dependency.
  • Making space for sacred lands: From the harsh glare of Lyng to Apache Stronghold.
  • A reciprocity: Off-reservation treaty hunting rights.
  • Repatriation as reparations.
  • Tribal sovereign immunity: Absolute authority or accountability.
  • Uses and abuses of Johnson v. M'Intosh in Native American land rights cases: Investigative insights from the Indian law justice files.

News Bulletin

This week, in brief:

  • Oregon resumes legal battle after Trump administration abandons historic Columbia River agreement
  • New Mexico Tribal leaders push to protect Chaco
  • Nez Perce Tribe lawsuit to halt Central Idaho gold mine clouds federal approval
  • Prairie Island Indian Community welcomes home ancestral remains
  • US House backs Lumbee Tribe, tying its status to a military spending bill

Announcements

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