Indian Law Bulletins Updated 7/27/22

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

• One petition was filed last week on 7/19/22:
  • Big Horn County Electric Cooperative v. Big Man (Tribal Courts; Tribal Codes; Subject Matter Jurisdiction)

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

• United States v. Stimac (Wildlife Trafficking; Trespassing on Indian Land)
• Southcentral Foundation v. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (Tribal Sovereign Immunity; Health Care)

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

• State of Alaska v. Cissy A. (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• Muscogee (Creek) Nation National Council v. Scott (Tribal Constitutions)

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

• S.4625/H.R.8502 - A bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to improve nutrition in tribal areas, 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

• Taking back sovereignty: The importance of Native voices in addressing environmental harms to Native land.
• Dikos Nitsaa'igii-19 ("The Big Cough"): Coal, COVID-19, and the Navajo Nation.
• Textualism and the Indian canons of statutory construction.
• Pablo v. Ak-Chin Indian Community: A path for tribal courts to protect Indigenous sovereignty and same-sex marriage.
• Indigenous subjects.

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

• Senate committee to hold hearing on tribal Freedmen
• At Oak Flat, courts and politicians fail tribes
• MSU Press publishes new work on tribal administration
• Impact of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Native American tribes in Wisconsin
• NCAI's open letter to Pope Francis on Indian residential schools
• Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota publisher and trailblazer for modern Indigenous journalism, walks on
• Neilson Powless, Nairo Quintana show Indigenous strength at the 2022 Tour de France
• Portland State University offers in-state tuition for all enrolled members of federally recognized tribes
• FBI works with partners to improve reporting of missing Indigenous persons in New Mexico, Navajo Nation
• What Indigenous leaders think about co-managing Bears Ears with the feds
• Native Americans across Midwest embrace traditional foods rejected by centuries of colonization

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 7/20/22

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

• Tsi Akim Maidu of Taylorsville Rancheria v. Department of the Interior (Federal Recognition)
• Evans Energy Partners, LLC v. Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. (Tribal Sovereign Immunity; Exhaustion of Tribal Remedies)

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

• In re J.W. (Indian Child Welfare Act)

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

• H.R.8387 - To amend the Indian Law Enforcement Reform Act to provide for advancements in public safety services to Indian communities, 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

• Extraction of personal data: A new form of colonialism or continuation of a colonial practice? Adult Native American adoptees resist assimilation and rebuild erased identities.
• Crossing the dark and fearful river: Monsanto, PCBs, and emerging tort theories.
• Case law on American Indians.
• The rule against hearsay, Indigenous claims and story-telling as testimony in Canadian courts.
• A watershed moment: The health and economic impact of water sustainability in the Navajo Nation post-pandemic.

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

• Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to hear testimony on three acts on Wednesday
• When tribal nations expel their Black members
• How ancestral knowledge can help incarcerated Natives
• Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures aims to boost resilience of tribal economy by fostering entrepreneurship, workforce housing
• Bill sought by Wabanaki tribes in Maine passes U.S. House
• How a recent Supreme Court decision derailed a Native student journalist's free-speech lawsuit
• Red Cliff Ojibwe Nation celebrates ‘landmark moment’ with return of final 900 acres of land from Bayfield County
• Washoe Tribe, TRPA get $3.4 million to combat aquatic invasive species at Tahoe
• Tribes, Air Force eye protection of sacred sites during ICBM project
• ‘Daughter of a Lost Bird’ and the complexities of Indigenous identity

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 7/13/22

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

• Bird Industries, Inc v. The Tribal Business Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act; Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Portland General Electric Company v. State of Oregon and Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (Ceremonial Fishing and Harvesting)
• Block v. Tule River Tribal Council (Tribal Sovereign Immunity)
• Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger (Voting Rights Act; Redistricting)

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

• Baker v. Erickson (Tribal Courts; Child Custody)
• State of Wisconsin v. House (Public Law 280)

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

• S.4505 - A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the program for direct housing loans made to Native American veterans, 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

• Reimagining the Violence Against Women Act for tribes in 2022.
• Eli-Tpitahatohek Tpaskuwakonol Waponahkik (How we, Native people, reflect on the law in the Dawnland).

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

• Janet Mills’ pause on tribal rights measure echoes politics in Muskie era
• Tulalip Tribes sues Juul, claiming e-cigarette maker targeted youth with ‘deceptive’ ads
• Michigan Public Service Commission requests further data regarding Line 5 safety risks
• Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe awarded $1.1M grant to revive aquaculture business
• California bill aims to increase availability of tribal foster homes
• Karuk Tribe official brings traditional knowledge to federal wildlife commission
• Cherokee Nation Business contributes $10 million to Cherokee Nation Marshal Service
• Navajo Nation again considers legislation to repeal same-sex marriage ban
• Supreme Court will hear Indian Child Welfare Act cases this fall -- What this means for Indian Country
• Professor recruiting Native teachers to work in their hometowns
• Program helps educators accurately teach Native American content in classrooms

Indian Law Bulletins Updated 7/7/22

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

• Yurok Tribe v. Dowd (Subject Matter Jurisdiction; Tribal Sovereignty; Fishing Rights)
• City of Seattle v. Sauk-Suiattle Tribal Court (Tribal Jurisdiction over Nonmembers; Dams; Exhaustion of Tribal Remedies)
• Kanam v. Haaland (Federal Recognition)

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

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

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

• Gibson v. Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority (Tribal Law; Premises Liability)

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

• H.R.8108 - Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act
• H.R.8109 - Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act
• H.R.8115 - Recreation and Public Purposes Tribal Parity Act
• H.R.8286 - To take certain Federal land in the State of Washington into trust for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, 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

• Mohegan women, the Mohegan church, and the lasting of the Mohegan Nation.
• An uncomfortable truth: Law as a weapon of oppression of the Indigenous peoples of southern New England.
• Uncomfortable truths about sovereignty and wealth.
• Returning home and restoring trust: A legal framework for federally non-recognized tribal nations to acquire ancestral lands in fee simple.
• The continued impact of Carcieri on the restoration of tribal homelands: In New England and beyond.
• Resisting Indigenous erasure in Rhode Island: The need for compulsory Native American history in Rhode Island schools.
• Colonial legislation affecting Indigenous peoples of southern New England as organized by state.

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

• In 5-4 ruling, court dramatically expands the power of states to prosecute crimes on reservations
• The Supreme Court’s attack on tribal sovereignty, explained
• The Indian Country abortion safe harbor fallacy
• Onondaga Nation will regain 1,000 acres of New York forest in historic agreement
• Washington State Patrol rolls out new alert system to locate missing Native Americans
• National Congress of American Indians adapts resolution supporting the rights of nature
• Who does the state of Wyoming consider a poacher?
• Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe celebrates the creation of a culturally reflective Indian French immersion school
• 4 Native nonprofits form Good Relatives Collaborative to Indigenize grant making
• Indigenous and Two-Spirit identity through the airwaves