Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/15/22

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

• Two cases were decided this week on 6/13/22 and 6/15/22, respectively:
  • Denezpi v. United States (Tribal Courts; Double Jeopardy)
  • Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2022.html

• Grondal v. United States (Tribal Sovereign Immunity; Trust Relationship; Allotment)
• Navajo Agricultural Products Industry v. United States (Trust Relationship; Federal Tort Claims Act)
• Hyman v. Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe of Connecticut (Custodial Rights; Jurisdiction)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2022.html

• Mona J. v. Department of Health & Social Services (Indian Child Welfare Act)
• Interest of A.C. (Indian Child Welfare Act)
• Walsh v. State of Minnesota (Tort Claims Act; Reservation Boundaries)

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2022.html

• Strangers in their own land: A survey of the status of the Alaska Native people from the Russian occupation through the turn of the twentieth century.
• ANCSA corporation proxy wars.
• It takes a village: Repurposing takings doctrine to address melting permafrost in Alaska Native towns.
• Getting smart about tribal commercial law: How smart contracts can transform tribal economies.
• Legal obstacles in the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.
• Lessons from McGirt v. Oklahoma's habeas aftermath.

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

• SCOTUS rules in favor of tribal gaming in Yselta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas
• SCOTUS affirms in Denezpi v. United States
• Historic agreement gives Cherokee Nation self-governance over transportation projects
• Interior Department launches Indian Youth Service Program
• Closure of veteran clinics across New Mexico opposed by Navajo Nation leaders
• U.S. Bank continues to wage financial genocide against Native American tribe
• What does it mean to Indigenize the USDA Forest Service?
• Land acquisition near Mt. Taylor brings sacred sites out of private ownership, preserves habitat
• Movement to remove war criminal's name in Yellowstone National Park began in a Northern Cheyenne home
• Ojibwe educator, Illinois Native organization granted $50,000 to further social justice work
• New grant program aims to improve access to higher education for Oregon tribal members
• Montana American Indian Caucus: It's time to bring Big Medicine home
• 'A big deal': Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians subsidiary secures BIA loan guarantee for hemp facility
• Sacred in the city: Indigenous site in St. Paul prepared to welcome, educate public
• National Native American Hall of Fame announces the 2022 class of inductees

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/8/22

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2022.html

• McKinsey & Company, Inc. v. Boyd (Tribal Court Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers; Tribal Sovereign Immunity; Health Care)
• Kiowa Tribe v. Department of the Interior (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Indian Gaming)
• Yazzie v. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974)
• Cayuga Nation v. Parker (Tribal Exhaustion)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2022.html

• People in Interest of M.M. (Indian Child Welfare Act)

Tribal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/tribal/2022.html

• Combs Memorial Property v. Red Boy Sr. (Evictions)

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

• H.R.7937 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, to establish a program to facilitate coal mine reclamation and award grants to certain States and Indian Tribes to carry out coal mine reclamation, 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/2022.html

• Act 31 and perpetuating practices of Hawaiʻi Nā Pua o Haumea: How Hawai'i's midwifery licensure law adversely impacts traditional Native Hawaiian birthing practices.
• Environmental justice in the United Nations human rights system: Challenges and opportunities for the protection of Indigenous women’s rights against environmental violence.
• Trailblazing and living a purposeful life in the law: A Dakota woman's reflections as a law professor.
• Restoring Oklahoma: Justice and rule of law post-McGirt.
• Digital economic zones: A program for comprehensive tribal economic sovereignty.
• Lessons learned, lessons forgotten: A tribal practitioner's reading of McGirt and thoughts on the road ahead.
• Fanon, colonial violence, and racist language in federal American Indian law.
• Persisting sovereignties.

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

• Navajo Nation leaders finalize Navajo Utah Water Settlement Act
• Subpoena authority could jeopardize boarding school truth and healing commission
• Connecticut codifies child welfare protections for Native American families in state law
• State will pay cost of college for Oregon tribal members going to school in-state
• Leonard Peltier shares his Indian boarding school story
• The Indian Country abortion safe harbor fallacy
• Bois Forte Band gets 28,000 acres of land back in northern Minnesota
• Why the Muscogee (Creek) Nation gets a say on the Okefenokee mine proposal
• Native students exercise right to wear regalia at graduation
• Indigenous prisoner religious rights organization celebrates 10 years
• Oklahoma City Indian Clinic promotes LGBTQ+ health during Pride Month

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/1/22

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2022.html

• Brown v. Haaland (Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act)
• Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Inc. v. Becerra (Health Care; Trust Relationship; Indian Health Service)
• Walen v. Burgum, and The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Voting Rights - Redistricting)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2022.html

• In the Interest of A.H. and B.H., Children. (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• S.4323 - A bill to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to establish an urban Indian organization confer policy for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2022.html

• Belated justice: The failures and promise of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
• Learning from Hobby Lobby's misdeeds: Crafting new international due diligence standards for human rights and cultural heritage.
• Missing and murdered: Finding a solution to address the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and classifying it as a 'Canadian genocide.'
• The mess that has become Indian gaming in Oklahoma.
• A case for deference in American Indian health law.
• Meeting the McGirt moment: The Five Tribes, sovereignty & criminal jurisdiction in Oklahoma's new Indian Country.

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

• South Dakota ruled noncompliant with federal voter law
• Some Tununak residents have been living without internet for over 3 months
• New ‘roadmap’ helps tribes access historic levels of infrastructure funding
• Havasupai Tribe sends letter of opposition to Arizona Department of Environmental Quality; reiterates opposition to Pinyon Plain Mine aquifer protection permit
• Cherokee Nation takes steps to protect tribal elections from outside influence, dark money
• Why are there so few Native federal judges?
• Nonprofit receives grant to teach Lakota language in NYC, despite Standing Rock ban
• Bridging the Indigenous digital divide
• Combining old and new: Aquaponics opens the door to Indigenous food security
• ‘You go all in’: Diné composer from Chinle wins Pulitzer for music
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History returns artifacts to Chumash tribe