The Kumeyaay people, whose presence along the San Diego-Mexico border preceded the international boundary now designated by fencing President Donald Trump is fortifying with a wall, sued the federal government this week, claiming border wall construction is desecrating sacred burial sites.
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The State of Kansas asked a federal court Monday to set aside a U.S. Department of Interior decision that allows the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma to develop a casino in the Wichita suburb of Park City.
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The D.C. Circuit intervened Wednesday against a ruling that would have shut down the Dakota Access pipeline, putting injunctive relief on hold while the government appeals.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter asked the state’s highest criminal appeals court Monday for guidance on a flood of inmate appeals after the U.S. Supreme Court unexpectedly ruled last month the state has no criminal jurisdiction on large areas the justices found are still tribal lands.
Read moreThe SEC claims in a federal complaint that former Georgia Assemblyman Clarence Dean Alford “fraudulently induced at least 100 investors, predominantly from the Indian-American community, to invest at least $23 million in unregistered, high-yield promissory notes,” through gross misrepresentations, in federal court.
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The Seventh Circuit on Thursday unanimously sided with the Oneida Nation in its fight with a Wisconsin village over the village’s authority to force the tribe to get permits for the annual apple festival on its reservation.
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A recent fire that badly damaged the Mission San Gabriel church in Southern California has brought to the surface 250-year-old sins of Spain and the Catholic Church — part of the complicated and often painful past woven into the fabric of the Golden State.
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A large coalition of states, environmental organizations and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe have filed fresh challenges against the Trump administration’s decision to open millions of acres of public lands up for new coal leasing and mining.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (CN) — Oklahoma’s Five Tribes and state leaders announced an agreement Thursday to clarify the state’s criminal and
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit granted a request from the Trump administration on Tuesday evening to hold off shutting down the Dakota Access pipeline.
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The Washington NFL franchise announced Monday it is dropping the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo, bowing to pressure from sponsors and decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans.
Read moreDiné [Navajo] Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court, claiming its authorization and issuance of oil and gas leases on 30 parcels covering nearly 41,000 acres violates the National Environmental Policy Act and Federal Land Policy and Management Act.
Read moreBackcountry Against Dumps sued the Bureau of Indian Affairs on environmental grounds in federal court, fighting a lease to the Campo Band of Diegueño Indians to build a wind energy project 70 miles east of San Diego.
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In a decision that reclassifies a large swath of eastern Oklahoma as land belonging to Native Americans driven from their ancestral home during the Trail of Tears, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that a Seminole man sentenced to 500 years in prison for rape and sodomy should have been tried in federal court.
Read moreA Montana judge ruled Tuesday blocked a state law that restricts who can collect ballots, finding it likely violates Native Americans’ right to vote.
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Going over the team owner’s head, more than a dozen Native American leaders and organizations wrote to National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell, demanding a name change for the Washington Redskins.
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The Dakota Access pipeline must shut down by August 5, a federal judge ruled Monday in a stunning end to a long-fought battle between Native American tribes and the oil industry.
Read moreCorporations operating for-profit and providing health care to Alaskan Natives deserve a share of the $8 billion Congress set aside for tribal governments during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Washington ruled Friday.
Read moreThe Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe brought a federal lawsuit against top Trump administration officials, claiming they have unlawfully threatened to shut down the tribe’s roadblocks keeping travelers from passing through its reservation to limit the spread of Covid-19.
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