Indian Law Bulletins Updated 2/23/22

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

• Four petitions for certiorari were denied on 2/22/22:
• Dakota Access, LLC v. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, et al. (National Environmental Protection Act; Pipelines)
• Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Bonta (Indian Reorganization Act; Cigarette Sales)
• Self v. Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Jamestown S'klallam Tribe v. Lummi Nation (Treaty Rights; Water Rights)

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

• Grand Canyon Trust v. Provencio (Uranium Mining; Cultural Resources Protection)
• Navajo Nation v. Department of the Interior (Water Rights; Trust Relationship)
• Jones v. United States (Bad Men Clause; Court of Federal Claims)

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

• In re H.V. (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• The time trap: Addressing the stereotypes that undermine tribal sovereignty.
• The aboriginal land and water rights of the Jemez Pueblo.
• From zero-sum to economic partners: Reframing state tax policies in Indian Country in the post-COVID economy.
• Finding ways to empower tribal oil production.

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

• Interior Department announces $1.7 billion for water settlements with tribes
• 2nd lawsuit targets tribal subdistricts
• Tesla signs deal with Minnesota-based nickel mine; mine could violate treaty rights, threaten water, rice, fish, & more in the Mississippi River Watershed
• Detroit police break up Native sugarbush ceremony, saying 'sovereign stuff is not valid'
• Bureau of Indian Affairs announces jail reforms after NPR investigation finds 16 deaths in 4 years
• NAPI: Food sovereignty, production, security an important part of Navajo Nation’s future
• New Mexico’s first Native family court points to success keeping kids in tribal communities
• Why Yale urgently needs a Native Studies major
• Can movies help save the world's dying languages? New wave of Indigenous films share untold stories
• Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut's right to return

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 2/16/22

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

• Adams v. Dodge (Tribal Court Exhaustion Doctrine; Jurisdiction)

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

• Wattson v. Simon (Legislative Redistricting)
• In re B.M. Smith (Indian Child Welfare Act; Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act)
• The Navajo Nation v. Department of Child Safety (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• H.R.6707 - To amend the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 to advance equality for Wabanaki nations, and for other purposes.
• H.R.6716 - To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 2000 to protect Native American burial sites, village sites, and cultural resources discovered at civil works projects of the Corps of Engineers, 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

• Securing tribal consultation to support tribal health sovereignty.
• Yazzie et al. v. Hobbs: The 2020 election and voting by mail on- and off-reservation in Arizona.
• Tribes, firearm regulation, and the public square.

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

• VAWA bill in Senate would expand power of up to 30 Alaska tribal courts
• Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park to protect Native ancestral lands from development
• Pressure mounts for release of political prisoner Leonard Peltier
• SD Senate OK’s funding for Oceti Sakowin schools
• Digital project on enslaved Indigenous people awarded $1.5M grant from Mellon Foundation
• Chief Seattle Club housing project rooted in Indigenous culture
• Dept. of Interior recognizes tribal sovereignty in allocation of environmental cleanup funds, includes Navajo Nation, precludes State of Oklahoma
• How 'wilderness' was invented without Indigenous peoples
• Rising health needs drives new Minnesota effort to draw Native students to medical school
• The film "Powerlands" reveals a sobering story of environmental and cultural crisis on Indigenous lands
• An immersive history of mixed-descent Native families
• NMPBS original digital series ‘Indigi-Genius’ looks at the innovation of Native Americans

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 2/9/22

The Native American Rights Fund is hiring for the open position of Staff Attorney in Washington, D.C. Learn more about the vacancy at: https://www.narf.org/contact-us/join-team/

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

• One petition was filed last month, on 1/14/22:
  • Caballero v. United States (Sovereign Immunity; Quiet Title Act)

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

• Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Haaland (Fee-to-Trust Acquisitions)

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

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

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

• Treat thy neighbor as thyself? Protection and the scope of RLUIPA's equal terms clause.
• The validity of tribal checkpoints in South Dakota to curb the spread of COVID-19.
• Native American tribes and dam removal: Restoring the Ottaway, Penobscot and Elwha Rivers.

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

• Join the ACLU: Hiring Staff Attorney, Racial Justice Program, Indigenous Justice
• Tribes sue North Dakota over new redistricting map
• New nursing degree brings Fort Lewis College, CU Anschutz together to teach Indigenous-focused health curriculum
• Opioid settlement "historic for tribes," says Eastern Shoshone chairman
• United Nation expert's statement on Nooksack
• Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians seeks tribal-state co-management of Jackson Demonstration State Forest
• Committee kills bill to consider tribal concerns in officer training
• WA is working on an Amber Alert for missing Indigenous people
• A grassroots effort to regain food sovereignty
• Michigan Indian legal community mourns passing of Jim Keedy
• 'It took an entire tribe to raise me'
• ‘Our iwi, our bones are sacred’: Nāpua Greig at NAGPRA hearing
• Hopi Tribe looks to a solar-powered future
• Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe partners with Rosetta Stone to revitalize the Ojibwe language
• Five Native films you should be streaming in 2022

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 2/2/22

The Native American Rights Fund is hiring for the open position of Staff Attorney in Washington, D.C. Learn more about the vacancy at: https://www.narf.org/contact-us/join-team/

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

• United States v. Johnson (Assimilative Crimes Act)
• The Shawnee Tribe v. Yellen (CARES Act)

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

• State of Iowa v. Cungtion (Criminal Jurisdiction)
• State of Iowa v. Bear (Criminal Jurisdiction)

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

• Healthcare self-governance.
• Analyzing the implications of the Supreme Court's application of the Canons of Construction in recent federal Indian law cases.
• This land is not our land, this land is their land: Returning national park lands to their rightful protectors.
• John Locke's theory of property, and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in the settler-colony.
• How Alaska Native Corporations can better support Alaska Native Villages.
• The importance of abolition of the carceral state for Native survivors.
• The potential of bison restoration as an ecological approach to future tribal food sovereignty on the northern Great Plains.
• Bison, tribes, and brucellosis in the interagency bison management plan.

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

• Tribes reach $590 million opioid settlement with J.&J. and distributors
• Peltier's defense committee demands release of 77-year-old activist
• Full-time NAGPRA investigator hired for first time in decades
• Feeling 'the presence of my ancestors': Protecting sacred Indigenous land near Joshua Tree
• Tribal nations are locked inside the U.S. water regime
• Supreme Court appointment could re-position tribal law
• Increasing the supply of healthcare for Native Americans
• The economics of climate accountability
• American Indian course highlights importance of Indigenous causes on campus
• California museum returns massacre remains to Wiyot Tribe
• Indigenous political activists, scholars speak on importance of learning from Indigenous thought, environmental impact
• Tribal survey captures deepening food insecurity in Indian Country that federal data has missed
• Diné ancestors discovered: Southwest’s dark side uncovered in search for family history