Featuring Kate Fort of MSU Law.
From the article:
Kathryn Fort, director of the Law Clinic at Michigan State University’s College of Law, where she also runs the Indian Law Clinic, is an expert on the Indian Child Welfare
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New York Federal Court Rules in Favor of Jay Treaty Rights of Akwesasne Mohawks in Claim against Dept. of Education
Here are the materials in Rourke-Rodriguez et al v. United States Department of Education (N.D. N.Y.):
Eighth Circuit Vacates Injunction Against MHA Nation Tribal Court Matter Involving Side Agreement with Nonmember Company that Agreed to Ban Employee Smoking on Indian Allotments
DOE Scraps Tribal Energy Corridor Intended to Connect Reservation Power to the Grid
Worth a Listen: Murrow Award-Winning Podcast on Big Abe LeBlanc and Great Lakes Treaty Fishing Rights
Listen here.
Interlochen Public Radio’s Points North just won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for its episode on Albert “Big Abe” LeBlanc, the Bay Mills fisherman whose challenge to Michigan’s fishing restrictions led to the vindication of Great
Roadless Rule Update: NCAI and The Wilderness Society to host webinar on Thursday, September 10
On Thursday, September 10 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm ET, NCAI and the The Wilderness Society will host a webinar examining USDA’s proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The webinar will address the proposed rule’s implications
Ninth Circuit holds that Kalshi unlikely to succeed on claim that Commodities Exchange Act displaces state and tribal gaming laws
From the opinion:
We are “reluctant to read into ambiguous statutory text” a “radical or fundamental change” to that longstanding statutory scheme. Congress did not take a wrecking ball to all sports gambling regulations built up over decades by
The Tohono O’odham Border Wall Fight Escalates after Denial of Request for Prelim Injunction
In US District Judge Richard Leon’s August 13 decision denying TO’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop construction the border wall on its reservation, he said:
While I have concluded that a preliminary injunction is unwarranted, I fully expect
Seneca Nation President condemns renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America”
Map of the Five Nations, 1730 CE. Darlington map collection, Archives Service Center, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh.
From Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca:
Lake Ontario derives its name from Indigenous roots. In our traditional Seneca language,
