The 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.
Read moreFour Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin filed a federal lawsuit against Governor Scott Walker and other officials over the state’s attempts to collect property taxes on reservation lands acquired through an 1854 treaty.
Read moreAn Ohio historical group claims in court that a country club refuses to agree to an early end to its lease of a golf course covering an “enormous, geometric earthworks” built by Native Americans 2,000 years ago.
Read moreThe Supreme Court appeared hesitant Tuesday about the practical effects of siding with a death-row inmate who says a large swath of eastern Oklahoma should be treated as a Native American reservation.
Read moreDismissing trespass claims against the Bishop Paiute Indian Tribe, which evicted individual tribal members from their land to build a casino, the Ninth Circuit found Wednesday that a tribal court must first resolve the members’ appeal.
Read moreThe Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation accuse Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Neuma Healthcare Development and others in a federal RICO complaint of having conspired to use Medicaid dollars to profit off the tribe’s health care clinic.
Read moreSix states, seven tribes and the United States want two zinc smelters and their top officers ordered to bear the costs of cleaning up dozens of old mining and smelting sites and the rivers they polluted.
Read moreAllottees on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation brought a federal complaint demanding $128 million from Tesoro High Plains Pipeline Co., for trespass, fraud and other claims.
Read moreA 163-year-old treaty was the focus of Supreme Court oral arguments on Tuesday as lawyers sparred over attempts to tax a fuel distributor owned by a member of the Yakama Nation.
Read moreOne of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday defended his record on legal issues related to Native American tribes, as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its second nominations hearing during the Senate’s recess ahead of the midterm elections.
Read moreThe Supreme Court late Tuesday kept North Dakota’s new voter ID requirements in place, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned of a serious risk of disenfranchisement.
Read moreA Native American tribe faced an uphill battle Wednesday at the Seventh Circuit in its bid to block the expansion of a neighboring tribe’s casino.
Read moreA Canadian mining company must pay the $8 million it cost the Confederated Tribes of Colville to dig up evidence showing the company dumped toxic wastewater into the Canadian headwaters of the Columbia River, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreLBW, a Mississippi LLC, claims in a federal complaint that Kate Bosworth dba Make Pictures Productions plans to release an unauthorized version of “Little Brother of War,” wholly funded by LBW, about the game of stickball among the Choctaw Indians.
Read moreA 1600s Native American fort uncovered as part of a rail bridge replacement project is shining some light on a tribe’s first dealings with Europeans, archeologists said on Tuesday during a tour of the site.
Read moreThe United States brought a federal complaint Monday against a Native American who it says has ignored a demand to clean up years of construction waste dumped into Long Island wetlands.
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