Citizens of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan’s largest federally recognized Tribe with more than 50,000 citizens, will vote on a proposed new Constitution that would significantly restructure its Tribal government.
The Tribe’s current Constitution,
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation voted 16–5 on July 24 to advance a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would substantially rewrite 36 C.F.R. Part 800, which implements Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Section 106 is a
I never had the chance to meet Ward Churchill. I first read him in the early 90s at Michigan in a Native Studies class taught by Estevan Rael-Galvez. Estevan assigned this book, one the featured Ward heavily:
I liked
Yesterday, on August 12, USACE granted Enbridge a Clean Water Act section 404 permit for the proposed four-mile tunnel to house Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac. The Record of Decision is here. The Corps stated its review
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UW Law’s Indian Law Symposium, an annual tradition for 39 years, will focus on the theme:
Time Immemorial: The United States at 250
The program will be held in person at William H. Gates Hall, and available via Zoom.
Katherine Florey has posted “Indian Law Countercanons,” forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, on SSRN.
Here is the abstract:
On the second or third day of class, Federal Indian Law students learn that courts apply field-specific canons, originally
Here is the complaint and exhibits in Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):
