Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/29/22

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
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• One case was decided this week on 6/29/22:
  • Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (Criminal Jurisdiction; McGirt v. Oklahoma)
• One petition was denied this week on 6/27/22:
  • Alexander v. Gwitchyaa Zhee Corp. (ANCSA; Fifth Amendment)

Federal Courts Bulletin
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• Apache Stronghold v. United States (Cultural Resources; Sacred Sites; Chi'chil Biłdagoteel)
• United States v. State of Alaska (Subsistence Rights; Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act)

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

• In the Interest of T.W. (Indian Child Welfare Act)
• In re Wardia (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.4439 - A bill to take certain Federal land located in Siskiyou County, California, and Humboldt County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, and for other purposes.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
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• Empty graves and full museums: The need to include non-federally recognized tribes in NAGPRA claims.
• Tribes, firearm regulation, and the public square.

News Bulletin
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This week, in brief:

• Supreme Court limits historic McGirt ruling
• Federal appeals court greenlights destruction of sacred Native land
• University of Arizona to provide tuition-free education for Native American undergraduates in Arizona
• NJ Superfund lawsuit offers tribal land a path from contamination to cultural restoration
• Women of Indian Country respond to the overturning of Roe v. Wade
• Oregon tribe, state leaders enter historic agreement
• Appeal filed in BIA road washout lawsuit
• Biden administration backs Indian boarding school bill
• Native American Development Center weighs creating new business incubator
• Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk
• University of Alaska Southeast to offer free Alaska Native language courses
• Cherokee Nation investing in public art projects

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/22/22

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
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• Two cases were denied this week on 6/21/22:
  • Acres Bonusing, Inc. v. Marston (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
  • Adams v. Dodge (Tribal Courts; Tribal Court Exhaustion Doctrine)

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

• In re Interest of Lamiah L. (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• S.4412 - A bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States, Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to provide safety measures to social workers, health workers, and human services professionals performing services placing such individuals in high-risk and potentially dangerous situations, and for other purposes.
• H.R.8068 - Tribal Energy Investment Act of 2022
• S.4421/H.R.8108 - Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act
• S.4423/H.R.8109 - Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act
• S.4424/H.R.8115 - To amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act to authorize sales and leases of certain Federal land to federally recognized Indian Tribes, 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

• "We hold the government to its word": How McGirt v. Oklahoma revives aboriginal title.

News Bulletin
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This week, in brief:

• Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and five tribes of the Bears Ears Commission commit to historic co-management of Bears Ears National Monument
• ‘Historic appointment’: Tribal leader named Treasurer of the United States
• In New Jersey, Ford faces lawsuit over polluting tribal land
• Navajo Nation reaches $31M settlement for Gold King Mine spill
• Nooni Project aims to reclaim breastfeeding among tribes
• Committee approves bill to allow Maine tribes to benefit from future federal laws and benefits
• For some tribe members in Nevada, hurdles to voting remain
• Indian Affairs makes significant investment to protect and preserve Native languages
• Native couple still championing LGBTQ rights

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 6/15/22

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
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• 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
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• 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)
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• 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
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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
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• 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)
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• 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
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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
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• 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)
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• 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
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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