Upper Columbia River tribes finished an eight-day journey Saturday that traced the route salmon haven’t run for 80 years. That afternoon, ten canoes paddled by members of five tribes rounded the route’s final bend, their boats gliding high above the submerged falls that were, for millennia, one of the most important fishing spots in the region.
Read moreRuling against Wyoming, a divided Supreme Court said Monday that century-old legal precedent does not invalidate an 1868 treaty giving the Crow Tribe of Indians the right to hunt in a national forest.
Read moreThree Native American tribes have called for a halt to preliminary work on a planned copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains.
Read moreA bill to restore ownership of tribal land to the Mashpee Wampanoag after the Trump administration took away their Massachusetts reservation passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, though what will happen in the Senate is anyone’s guess.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed that a Wisconsin-based Native American tribe waited too long to try to block the expansion of a nearby casino run by the larger Ho-Chunk Nation.
Read moreThe Minnesota Department of Natural Resources lacked authority to change the controversial name of one of the most popular lakes in Minneapolis, the state appeals court ruled Monday.
Read moreAn online lending company owned by the Chippewa Cree cannot invoke tribal immunity to block claims that it charged two Vermonters usurious interest rates, the Second Circuit ruled.
Read moreOn the northern tip of California, a rugged landscape of volcanic rock, lava beds and conifer forests has served as the ancestral home of Native Americans for thousands of years. But things changed some decades ago when corporate interests began creeping onto the rocky terrain.
Read moreUpholding tribal rights, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Washington cannot tax a fuel distributor owned by the Yakama Indian Nation for using public roads to import product.
Read moreA lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission may have overplayed the agency’s hand Friday at the D.C. Circuit in denying that a 2018 rule change would endanger sites sacred to Native Americans.
Read moreAttorneys representing Native American tribes told a panel of Fifth Circuit judges Wednesday that a 1978 law that gives preference to Native American families when placing Native American children in foster care or for adoption is essential to preserving tribes’ culture and is not merely based on racial identification.
Read moreThe Kentucky Catholic school student who was filmed staring down a Native American activist at a March for Life rally last month filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post, claiming it rushed to assassinate his character.
Read moreA Native American tribe opposed to oil and gas drilling underneath Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota should not have filed their case in Washington, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated an order by the Federal Communications Commission limiting federal subsidies for wireless providers bringing service to tribal lands, finding it unfairly impacted access and affordability for Native Americans.
Read moreU.S. land managers will move forward in March with the sale of oil and gas leases that include land near Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico and other areas sacred to Native American tribes.
Read moreTribal leaders representing indigenous people who live along the United States borders wrapped up their two-day summit with a virtual press conference on Monday to announce progress in working to ensure unfettered access to tribal lands and cultures to their members on both sides of the border.
Read moreThe Maa-Nulth First Nations and four other tribes in Canada sued the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Fisheries in federal court, challenging the recovery strategy for Northern and Southern Resident Killer Whales, which affects their treaty fishing rights.
Read moreA federal magistrate recommended defeat Wednesday for a bid by the Seneca Nation to share in the tolls collected on the New York State Thruway.
Read moreThe Sitka Tribe of Alaska sued the state and its Department of Fish and Game in Superior Court, saying they failed to ensure the Tlingit People’s “legally protected rights … to continue their subsistence-fishing way of life” via herring and herring roe in Sitka Sound.
Read moreA week after it heard oral arguments in the case Carpenter v. Murphy, which involves deciding whether an Oklahoma murder was committed on a Native American reservation, the Supreme Court called Tuesday for supplemental briefing.
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