A 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.
Read moreFederal prosecutors forfeiture actions Tuesday to recover $1 million from the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and $2 million from the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, related to their sham dealings with convicted payday-loan scammer Scott Tucker, a former champion racer.
Read moreThe state of Washington will head to the U.S. Supreme Court next term for the right to tax a fuel distributor owned by a Native American tribe.
Read moreNative Americans with an oil-rich reservation in North Dakota brought a federal complaint Wednesday to quash drilling permits that poses a threat to their drinking water.
Read moreSeveral Navajo groups brought a federal complaint against the Department of the Interior for ordering the Kayenta Coal Mine to close in December 2019, without ordering it to be returned to its pre-strip-mine condition.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit judge indicated Wednesday that he supported reviving a proposed class action accusing federal and Arizona state agencies of racial discrimination against American Indian children and their non-American Indian adoptive parents.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Ascension Technologies-owned Big Picture Loans LLC of falsely claiming that the payday lending operation is owned and operated by a Native American “rent-a-tribe,” and immune to state usury laws.
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One of the final water-rights settlements between the United States and Native American tribes was signed Tuesday, resolving a generation-long battle between the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and the federal government.
Read moreAn unusual tie Monday at the Supreme Court has left intact an order expected to cost Washington billions of dollars after Native American tribes contested culvert work that blocked fish migration.
Read moreOn Tuesday the Department of Interior and the National Park Service awarded more than $60 million in historic preservation grants to states and tribes. Since 1977, Congress has allocated money raised from oil and natural gas leasing contracts to fund to fund the grant program and preserve cultural heritage that might otherwise be lost.
Read moreThe Haida Nation sued the Canadian minister of forests in British Columbia Supreme Court, for allowing Husby Forest Products to continue unsustainable logging of cedar forests in Haida land.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s mismanagement of the Klamath Irrigation Project threatens two endangered fish in the Klamath River: C’waam, or Lost River suckers, and Koptu, or shortnose suckers, the Klamath Tribes claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreAn equally divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday automatically affirmed the denial of a concrete company’s bid to remove Native American burial mounds from its property to expand its quarry operations.
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether Oklahoma lacked jurisdiction to try a tribe member for murder based on 1866 territorial boundaries establishing a reservation in the eastern part of the state.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Interior argued before the 10th Circuit Wednesday in support of its decision to secure 76 acres of land into a trust for the otherwise landless United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, contending that it did not need to consult another tribe to do so.
Read moreA Native American tribe brought a federal complaint Monday that accuses a New Jersey town and homeowner’s association of levying illegal fines and trying to intimidate them into stopping open-air prayers on ceremonial grounds.
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