The court concluded that reservation property held by tribes since allotment could not taxed by the state, but tribal property becomes taxable once it changes hands to non-Indian ownership.
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A man and a woman were found buried among wolf teeth and turtle shells. Other graves contained mothers and infants. Some tribal members were laid to rest with beloved dogs.
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A federal judge affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit in which Oregon ranchers sued to prevent the Klamath Tribes from exercising their superior water rights that interfere with irrigation of the ranchers’ lands. The tribes have preexisting authority to control their water rights under an 1864 treaty with the U.S. government.
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The Justice Department says the government is meeting its obligations at Rosebud Sioux hospital.
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Congresswoman Deb Haaland was confirmed by the Senate Monday as the secretary of the Interior by a 51-40 vote, making her the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet.
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The Native American nation is one of the first jurisdictions in the United States to offer vaccines to all state residents without restrictions
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Indigenous communities still under boil water advisories won’t get clean drinking water this month as the government promised. Instead, they will get a letter promising to meet that goal soon, and a website tracking progress.
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Although the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona has been ravaged by Covid-19 — at one point serving as the world epicenter of infections — the Tohono O’odham Nation has not been hit as hard.
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The United Houma Nation claims in federal court that a Louisiana school board sold a former all-Indian school maintained by the tribe as a historic landmark without notice for half of its appraised value.
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Deb Haaland threw her support behind the president’s decision to block the Keystone XL pipeline and halt new oil and gas leases on federal land during a second round of questioning from senators.
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Responding to Republicans’ concern over pipeline opposition, the congresswoman nominated to become the first Native American Cabinet secretary said the Biden administration is moving toward new opportunities in clean energy.
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The pipeline, which runs in part across Native American land, has been operating for years on an expired easement permit.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona denied a tribal group’s request for a preliminary injunction in its suit seeking to stop the transfer of land within the Tonto National Forest, which includes a sacred Apache ceremonial ground, to copper mining companies.
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Snoqualmie tribal offices were closed Friday to honor the death of Chief Andy de los Angeles, who led the tribe’s decades-long effort to re-gain federal recognition. But the fight wasn’t over.
Read moreAn appeals court in California upheld the removal of a 124-year-old statue — depicting a cowboy and Catholic priest standing over a fallen Native American — in San Francisco’s Civic Center in 2018. The plaintiffs claimed its removal in the early morning hours the day after a city board approved it was illegal, but the court ruled they can use the “electoral process as a means to continue advocating for their point of view.”
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The Department of Interior will have to reassess its decision to deny the Chinook Indian Nation the small sum it awarded 50 years ago for the vast territory surrounding the Lower Columbia River, where their oral history says they have always lived.
Read moreA federal court in New York ordered the Indian Health Service to release to the New York Times a report it commissioned of a private investigation into “numerous acts of rape and sexual abuse” committed against Native American children by former IHS pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber. In 2018 and 2019, Weber was convicted of several charges in Montana and South Dakota.
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The Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico have reached multimillion-dollar settlements with mining companies to resolve claims stemming from a 2015 spill that resulted in rivers in three Western states being fouled with a bright-yellow plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Read moreThe tribal group Apache Stronghold sued the United States to prevent the transfer of federal lands to mining interests that would “illegally annihilate” a “Western Apache cultural property known to the Apache since time immemorial as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel.”
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Balking at methodology that put the population of the Shawnee Tribe at zero when it has thousands of members, the D.C. Circuit ordered an injunction Tuesday on how the government administers coronavirus-relief funds to Native Americans.
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