Indian Law Bulletins Updated 5/25/22

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

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. CashCall, Inc. (Payday Lending; Consumer Financial Protection Act)
• Unite Here Local 30 v. Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation (Tribal Labor Relations; Class III Gaming Compact)
• Shoshone Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation v. United States (Quiet Title Act)
• Mestek v. Lac Court Oreilles Community Health Center (False Claims Act; Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Barnett (Voting Rights - Registration; National Voter Registration Act)

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

• State of Montana v. Wellknown (Jury Preemptory Strike; Implicit Bias)

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

• S.4269/H.R.7850 - A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to award grants to State, local, and Tribal governments to purchase and distribute anti-blood loss supplies for use in a medical emergency, 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

• Tribal consultation: Toward meaningful collaboration with the federal government.
• Back to basics: The Supreme Court's return to fundamental principles of federal Indian law in McGirt v. Oklahoma ahead of equal protection challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
• For Freedmen's sake: The story of Native Blacks of the Muscogee Nation and their fight for citizenship post-McGirt.

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

• Lower Brule sues Lyman County for voter redistricting
• Return of the buffalo
• Diné woman confirmed as first Native federal judge in California
• Class-action lawsuit says state is failing Alaska foster kids
• Tribal members use totem poles to raise alarm on salmon extinction
• ‘Our way of healing’: Azee’ Bee Nahagha working to protect peyote from state decriminalization
• StrongHearts Native Helpline publishes state reports on intimate partner violence impacting Native Americans and Alaska Natives
• Duwamish Tribe sues Interior in federal court, alleging sex discrimination
• Ute Indian Tribe successful in leading national effort to rescind U.S. historical position on tribal water law
• ‘We are still here’: Tribes reclaiming out-of-state ancestral homelands
• How voter suppression laws target Native Americans
• Representation matters: Tlingit woman joins NBC News as contributor on Native issues
• Tribes, environmental groups demand better management of the Bay-Delta
• Ktunaxa Nation outraged about lack of government action on cross-border water pollution
• Law school to pay bulk of its in-state Native American students’ tuition

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 5/18/22

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

• One petition for certiorari was denied this week on 5/6/22:
  • Albrecht v. Riverside County (Indian Reorganization Act; Taxation; Land Leases)

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

• Stanko v. Oglala Sioux Tribe (Tribal Police; Law Enforcement Jurisdiction)
• Yurok Tribe v. US Bureau of Reclamation (Sovereign Immunity; Administrative Procedure Act)
• Nygaard v. Taylor (Tribal Courts; Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act)
• Weiss v. Perez (Cultural Resources; Native American Graves Protection Act)

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

• Matter of Welfare of Children A.J.J. ( Indian Child Welfare Act; Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act)
• In re M. Henry (Indian Child Welfare Act; Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act)

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

• S.4196 - A bill to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to restore an opportunity for Tribal economic development on terms that are equal and fair, 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

• Where the NHPA and NEPA meet: Failures of the nexus of EIS and Section 106 analyses.
• The law and economics of crime in Indian Country.
• Supporting Native American communities during the coronavirus pandemic: Checkpoints, tribal sovereignty, and the implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma.
• Storytelling and truth-telling: Personal reflections on the Native American experience in law schools.
• Celebrating the restoration of the national bison range to its rightful, tribal owners.
• Ninth circuit muddies the waters of tribal sovereign immunity and the Clean Water Act in Deschutes River Alliance v. Portland GE.

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

• The never-ending maze: Continued failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
• Pueblos again seek inclusion in Rio Grande decision-making
• Supreme Court turns down Indian Country taxation case as high-profile session continues
• Census undercount threatens federal food, health programs on reservations
• 9th Circuit upholds 'landmark' ruling blocking Rosemont copper mine
• The Navajo Nation’s first economist takes a fresh view on development
• Native reproductive justice: Practices and policies from relinquishment to family preservation
• Alaska Senate passes tribal recognition bill
• ‘Metrics of economic well-being’ show Native Americans underserved
• Data genocide, maternal mortality, and a return to tradition
• North Carolina has never elected an Indigenous person to Congress
• Huy urges United Nations to protect U.S. Indigenous prisoner religious freedoms
• Chief Hoskin, Deputy Chief Warner announce $500 monthly transition stipend for Cherokee youth ‘aging out’ of foster system
• Eight finalists for the 2022 Indigenous Screenwriters List announced

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 5/12/22

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

• In re Coughlin (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Cherokee Nation v. Haaland (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act)
• Meeks v. Tehama County (Indian Child Welfare Act; Jurisdiction)

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
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• Restatement as aadizookaan.
• Indian sovereignty in context.
• Right-of-way sovereignty.
• Who, what, where, and how: The fundamental elements for contracts implicating tribal sovereign immunity.
• Facilitating tribal co-management of federal public lands.
• Five restatements: Charting the history of the law on state taxation of non-tribal members in Indian Country.
• Opportunities for on-reservation sustainable development.
• Protection and implementation of Indian reserved water rights as a necessary condition for tribal economic development.
• Toward tribal health sovereignty.

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

• The Assistant Secretary releases Boarding School Report
• The plan to ensure Indigenous peoples have a voice at the U.N.
• Columbia River treaty fishing sites to get upgrades
• GAO rebukes Native veteran home loan program in new scathing analysis
• The legacy of uranium mining on Navajo lands
• Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to host Tribal Education Summit
• Tribes’ spring fish harvest provides food, preserves culture
• Indigenous women leaders say Line 5 reroute project would be cultural, environmental ‘genocide’
• How a Lakota nurse uses trauma-informed care to help her community heal
• Duwamish Tribe prepares to sue federal government to secure tribal sovereignty
• ‘Tell it like it is’: First Diné woman running for Utah House seat
• Seneca Nation puts City of Olean on notice for Clean Water Act violations
• Tlingit and Haida partner with Native-owned company to develop new internet provider
• Aspiring astronaut brings Indigenous people’s perspective to space science
• UMaine leverages 3D printing to return cultural artifacts to Alaska tribe
• Don't fear a red planet: The story of the world's only Native comic shop
• Powerful visions of reclaimed narratives by Indigenous artists

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 5/4/22

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

• Allen v. Environmental Restoration, LLC (Clean Water Act; Gold King Mine Spill)
• Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation v. McKee (Tribal Jurisdiction; Water Rights)
• Brown v. Haaland (Evictions)

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

• Trenton Indian Housing Authority v. Poitra (Jurisdiction; Evictions)
• In re Skursky (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• Atkinson v. Wells Fargo Bank (Evictions)

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

• S.Res.613 - A resolution promoting minority health awareness and supporting the goals and ideals of National Minority Health Month in April 2022, which include bringing attention to the health disparities faced by minority populations of the United States such as American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders.
• H.R.7577 - CDC Tribal Public Health Security and Preparedness Act
• H.R.7632 - To provide access to reliable, clean, and drinkable water on Tribal lands, and for other purposes.
• S.4104/H.R.7633 - Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
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• Bezhigwan Ji-Izhi-Ganawaabandiyang: The rights of nature and its jurisdictional application for Anishinaabe territories.
• Revitalizing tribal sovereignty in treatymaking.
• Communities as caretakers: The Indian Child Welfare Act as an antiracist framework for all child welfare cases.
• Foundations of tribal society: Art, dreams, and the Last Old Woman.
• Editorializing ICWA: 40 years of colonial commentary.
• Reframing Kānāwai: Towards a restorative justice framework for Indigenous peoples.
• Lost in translation: A translation that set in motion the loss of Native American spiritual sites.

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

• Law gives Southwest Colorado’s American Indian tribes a voice at state Capitol
• Why the debate over Russian uranium worries U.S. tribal nations
• University of California announces Native American Opportunity Plan
• Beyond “paper” water: The complexities of fully leveraging tribal water rights
• EPA approves the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s water quality standards
• Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management
• 'Fresh Banana Leaves' spotlights Indigenous science for a warming planet
• Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scarce resources
• 6 Wisconsin tribes voice opposition to bill seeking to remove federal protections for wolves
• Santa Clara Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo, and Pueblo of Santa Ana tribal leaders meet with FEMA deputy administrator to discuss wildfires
• Election season is in full swing on the Navajo Nation
• Cherokee Nation ‘Anadisgoi Magazine,’ language perpetuation efforts receive highest honors in international contest