Indian Law Bulletins Updated 7/3/2024

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2024.html

• Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Haaland, et al. (Land Into Trust; Administrative Procedure Act (APA); Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA))
• Association of Washington Business, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. (Tribal Fishing Rights; Administrative Procedure Act; Clean Water Act)
• Seamon v. Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise, et al. (Arm of the Tribe; Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• State of Alaska v. Newland, et al. (Land Into Trust; Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; Indian Reorganization Act)

Tribal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/tribal/2024.html

• Ferguson v. Fort Peck Tribes (Hearsay; Indian Civil Rights Act; Right to Confront Witness)
• Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes v. Steele (Restitution Determination)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2024.html

• San Carlos Apache Tribe v. State (Clean Water Act)

U.S. Legislation - 118th Congress Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/118_uslegislation.html

• H.R.8920 - To approve the settlement of the water right claims of the Tule River Tribe, and for other purposes.
• H.R.8921 - To set aside funds for payments to Indian tribes and tribal consortia under subpart 1 of part B of title IV of the Social Security Act.

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2024.html

• Alaska Native Claims Selection (Interior)
• Alaska Native Claims Selection (Interior)
• Chippewa National Forest; Minnesota; Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction to Lands To Be Held in Trust by the United States for the Benefit of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Pursuant to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act (USDA)

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

• Arizona v. Navajo Nation and systemic failures in the tribal water allocation scheme.
• Existence and survival: A dimension of indigenous self-determination in the context of climate change impacts.
• Indigenous fire data sovereignty: Applying indigenous data sovereignty principles to fire research.
• Mau Forest evictions in Kenya: How an international tribunal’s affirmation of indigenous rights differs from Federal Indian Law in the United States.
• Preserving the sacred medicine: Why peyote should be excluded from entheogenic plant decriminalization efforts.
• When John Locke meets Lao Tzu: The relationship between intellectual property, biodiversity and indigenous knowledge and the implications for food security.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html

This week, in brief:

• Tribes move to defend EPA’s Tribal Water Rights rule
• Truth and Healing Commission bill heads to the Senate floor
• 'Tribal courts are essential' | New legislations aims to strengthen tribal court system
• House subcommittee considers bills to expand tribal land trust authority
• Federal judge says Alaska Tribes may put land into trust, a step toward ‘Indian Country’ here

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/26/2024

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2024.html

• Tanner-Brown v. Haaland (Injury-in-Fact; Standing; Freedmen)
• Rincon Mushroom Corporation of America, et al. v. Mazzetti, et al. (Tribal Court; Tribal Regulatory Jurisdiction)
• Santee Sioux Nation v. Tso, et al. (Contracts Dispute Act (CDA); Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA))
• Rodriguez v. State of Montana (Indian Child Welfare Act; Jurisdiction)
• Chemehuevi Indian Tribe v. United States (Breach of Fiduciary Duties; Tucker Act; Water Rights)
• Quechan Indian Tribe v. United States of America (Cultural Resource Damages; Resource Equivalency Analysis)
• United States of America v. Stevens, et al. (Tribal Property Held in Trust; Permit Default; Trespass)

Tribal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/tribal/2024.html

• Jones v. Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise (Negligence; Actual Damages)
• Mathews v. Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise (Dangerous Condition; Proximate Cause)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2024.html

• Surface Water Use Permit Applications, Integration of Appurtenant Rights and Amendments to the Interim Instream Flow Standards, Nā Wai ‘Ehā Surface Water Management Areas of Waihe‘e River, Waiehu Stream, Wailuku River (Previously Known as ‘Īao Stream) and Waikapū Stream, Maui (Water Rights)

U.S. Legislation - 118th Congress Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/118_uslegislation.html

• H.R.8790 - To expedite under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and improve forest management activities on National Forest System lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and on Tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands, and for other purposes.
• H.R.8791 - To provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, and for other purposes.
• H.R.8829 - To expedite new Tribal court assessments and base support funding, and for other purposes.

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2024.html

• Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 2024 Harvest Specifications for Pacific Whiting and 2024 Pacific Whiting Tribal Allocation (Commerce)

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

• Access to justice in the shadow of colonialism.
• Batok in the east, aloha in the west: intellectual property protections of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines and the United States.
• Chief Justice Angela R. Riley and Professor Suzette Malveaux in conversation at the eleventh annual John Paul Stevens Lecture: The third sovereign: Tribal courts and Indian Country justice.
• E hoʻi ka nani i Mokuʻula lā: The Commission on Water Resource Management’s public trust duty to fully restore Mokuʻula and Mokuhinia.
• Naloxone and methadone access in Tribal communities.
• Native nation resistance to the machinations of settler colonial democracy.
• Responsible governance and Tribal customary rights.
• The vision of Chief Justice William S. Richardson.
• Wai ea: restoring Hawaiʻi’s public trust and reclaiming Lahaina’s water future.
• Where’s Mr. Postman? The struggles of voting by mail in Indian Country.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html

This week, in brief:

• Federal leaders knew Northwest dams would hurt Native communities — and they approved
• In green energy boom, one federal agency made the Yakama Nation an offer they had to refuse
• Where the buffalo roamed: Bill would return herds to ancestral Native American lands
• They took part in Apache ceremonies. Their schools expelled them for satanic activities
• U.S. Senate unanimously passes bill to return land to Nebraska’s Winnebago Tribe

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 06/18/2024

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2023-2024update.html

One petition for certiorari was denied on 6/17/24:

• West Flagler Associates v. Haaland (Indian Gaming)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2024.html

• Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. BNSF Railway Company (Trespass Restitution)
• Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation v. Ure, et al. (Sale of Trust Lands; Civil Rights Acts; Sovereign Immunity)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2024.html

• Lela Mae Flowers v. Jena Bank of Choctaw Indians, et al. (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)

U.S. Legislation - 118th Congress Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/118_uslegislation.html

• S.4558 - A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the right of members of a federally recognized Indian Tribe in the United States and First Nations individuals in Canada to cross the borders of the United States.

U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
http://narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2024.html

• Regulations Governing the Taking of Marine Mammals (Commerce)
• Strengthening the Section 184 Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Program; Delay of Effective and Compliance Dates (HUD)

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

• Arizona v. Navajo Nation.
• Indigeneity in the classroom: Avenues for Native American students to challenge anti-critical race theory laws.
• The link between individual domestic violence and Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women: VAWA is not enough.
• Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina and Haaland v. Brackeen: Lessons on the future of affirmative action for Native American college applicants.
• Tribal sovereignty & sovereign immunity in bankruptcy.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html

This week, in brief:

• Railway ordered to pay Washington state Tribe nearly $400M for trespassing
• Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from Tribal Nations
• Why so many California Indians lack the federal recognition given to other Native Americans
• Oklahoma City University launches Tribal sovereignty institute
• US bishops release pastoral framework for healing with Native Catholics