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Law->Misc.: Today is first National Heritage Day to honor native americans
Posted on Friday, November 28 @ 22:28:56 CST (179 reads)

For the first time, federal legislation has set aside the day after Thanksgiving — for this year only — to honor the contributions American Indians have made to the United States.

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Law->Misc.: Would John McCain be good for Indian Country?
Posted on Tuesday, August 19 @ 23:09:40 CDT (706 reads)

AUTHOR: Jerry Reynolds / Indian Country Today

McCain entered the presidential campaign with considerable standing in Indian country - not bad for a Republican on overwhelmingly Democratic turf. But even prior to the rapprochement with Reed, a number of announcements and positions had compromised his support in some quarters and led to a re-evaluation in others.

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Law->Misc.: U.S. and states should establish Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Posted on Wednesday, July 09 @ 21:52:48 CDT (984 reads)

Wahkon writes Truth and reconciliation commissions seek to uncover facts and distinguish truth from lies. The process allows for acknowledgement, appropriate public mourning, forgiveness and healing. And if the US House of Representatives passes their version of Brownback’s apology bill and President Bush signs it Congress should then be pressed to launch a national Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And each state should also debate the need for its own Truth and Reconciliation Commission and then to fund it."

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Law->Misc.: Alcohol Prohibition timeline
Posted on Wednesday, July 02 @ 04:42:46 CDT (1640 reads)

The 1933 appeal of prohibition did not apply to native americans. They continued under prohibition laws until 1953, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower Indian prohibition was repealed country-wide. Indian reservations, however, remained dry unless they opted to permit the possession and sale of alcohol on the reservation.

Many reservations remain "dry" today. However, most frequently, tribal police do not enforce the alcohol law in areas where Anglo federal employees reside, or unless the drinker is causing a disturbance or has committed other crimes.

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Law->Misc.: BIA finally back online after six years
Posted on Tuesday, June 10 @ 20:53:55 CDT (1194 reads)

Internet access is being restored to the Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) via the BIA’s network following a recent court order. This means that Indian Affairs, BIA and BIE employees will soon be able to communicate by email with tribes, other federal offices and the general public to provide services and conduct business.

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Law->Misc.: 'Obamamania' hits the Crow Nation
Posted on Saturday, May 24 @ 21:32:33 CDT (2798 reads)

AUTHOR: Adrian Jawort

If elected, Obama promises to host an annual summit at the White House with tribal leaders to come up with an agenda for tribal communities while making sure treaty obligations are met while honoring the tribal and federal government relationship.

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Law->Misc.: Obama's distant American Indian ancestry may make him an attractive candidate to American Indians
Posted on Monday, December 24 @ 05:39:38 CST (3043 reads)

AUTHOR: Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama opposes the dumping of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, a sacred site, and co-sponsored the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2007.

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Law->Misc.: Bill being sponsored to terminate the Cherokee tribe from Federal Recognition
Posted on Sunday, December 09 @ 15:55:33 CST (1881 reads)

Thirty-three bills are currently before Congress that will affect the Cherokee Nation. Some members of Congress are even going so far as attempting to terminate the existence of the Cherokee Nation as a federally recognized Indian Nation under Bill H.R. 2824.

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Law->Misc.: UN set to adopt native rights declaration, no thanks to Canada
Posted on Monday, September 10 @ 04:06:03 CDT (2609 reads)

Canada was cast Thursday as a bad actor that aggressively campaigned alongside countries with tarnished human-rights records in its failed bid to derail the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The non-binding declaration is expected to be adopted Sept. 13 by the UN General Assembly.

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Law->Misc.: Saving the peoples' right to know: Fight Internet strangulation
Posted on Saturday, June 17 @ 15:31:02 CDT (4503 reads)

A threat is now posed by the ''privatize everything'' crowd to divvy up parts of the Internet and begin charging for faster grades of service and breadth of access. The freedom-to-access tool we have come to appreciate for the rapid communications and byway to knowledge it gives us could be changed forever.

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Law->Misc.: Tribes may lose on trust fund payments
Posted on Wednesday, December 07 @ 19:41:10 CST (4237 reads)

Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases, royalties and sale of property.

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Law->Misc.: Law on books still bans American Indians from Boston
Posted on Wednesday, May 18 @ 22:48:39 CDT (4255 reads)

John "Sam" Sapiel gets an uneasy feeling when he steps over Boston city limits. There are no warrants out for his arrest and he hasn't committed any crime, but he still could be put behind bars -- just because he's an American Indian.

Sapiel, a 74-year-old full-blooded Penobscot Indian who lives in Falmouth, is technically a persona non grata in the city of Boston, where an archaic law forbids American Indians from setting foot since 1675, when settlers were at war with area tribes.

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Law->Misc.: Indian Chief Hanged in 1858 Is Cleared
Posted on Sunday, December 12 @ 13:07:06 CST (4987 reads)

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Chief Leschi of the Nisqually Indian tribe was exonerated by a historical court on Friday, nearly a century and a half after he was hanged for the death of a militia soldier in what is now Washington State.

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Law->Misc.: The changing view of Indian law by the U.S. Supreme Court
Posted on Thursday, May 02 @ 05:15:13 CDT (12919 reads)

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AUTHOR: Joel Patenaude, Messenger Staff Writer

The current U.S. Supreme Court has detoured from more than a century of Indian law jurisprudence by limiting the authority of Indian tribes over their reservations. This was the contention of the many attorneys, judges and academicians gathered at an Indian law conference held in Albuquerque, NM, early last month. The Rehnquist Court's departure from "settled principles" of Indian law, according to conference speaker David Getches, professor of natural resources law at the University of Colorado School of Law, "inevitably causes confusion among state, local and tribal governments, heightens tensions among Indians and their non-Indian neighbors, undermines reservation economic development efforts, and frustrates lower federal and state courts."

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Law->Misc.: Native American housing legislation passed
Posted on Friday, January 04 @ 18:54:46 CST (3321 reads)

AUTHOR: Special to The Daily Times

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, applauded President Bush for signing legislation into law that incorporates his effort to extend a direct housing loan pilot project for Native American veterans.

The President Thursday signed a broad veterans' measure, H.R. 1291, which encompassed four bills as approved by the House and Senate.

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Law->Misc.: 2nd Annual Indian Law Conference of the California Indian Law Association
Posted on Friday, January 04 @ 18:27:33 CST (3647 reads)

SOURCE: UCLA School of Law Press Release

WHEN: February 9, 2002
WHERE: University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Keynote Speaker: Lyle Marshall, Chairman, Hoopa Valley Tribe

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Law->Misc.: Update on the Alaska Equal Protection Lawsuit
Posted on Tuesday, December 18 @ 22:30:44 CST (2843 reads)

AUTHOR: Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Press Release

Lare Aschenbrenner, the directing attorney of the Alaska office of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), is taking the lead for the plaintiffs in the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council v. Alaska lawsuit.

Currently, NARF is representing ten villages, the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council and the Alaska Native Justice Center in a case against the State of Alaska, which challenges the State's inadequate provision of law enforcement to off-road Native Villages on the grounds of racial discrimination.

There are 165 off-road rural communities of which 73 have no local police at all!

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