The 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.
Read moreA Native American feather dancer asked the U.S. government Thursday to end its restrictions on tribes using eagle feathers in religious ceremonies.
Read moreAfter his focus on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ancestry inspired the city of Cambridge to threaten fines, the self-styled “real Indian” lobbed free-speech claims Sunday in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe Supreme Court struggled on Wednesday to decipher exactly how much fish a group of Native American tribes in the Pacific northwest are entitled to under a series of century old treaties with the federal government.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two related cases surrounding a concrete company’s effort to remove Native American burial grounds from its property to expand its quarry.
Read moreSixty-seven members of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe claimed in a federal complaint that the government officials tasked with protecting them have stood idly by after they were illegally expelled from the Michigan tribe.
Read moreLawyers for oil, gas and steel companies told a judge Friday that they shouldn’t have to pay the Yakama Nation for its efforts to clean up pollution that has migrated beyond the bounds of a federally recognized Superfund site where the Willamette River winds through the center of the city.
Read moreIn what was called “long overdue,” the California Coastal Commission Wednesday held the first public hearing on a new policy to consult with Native American tribes in California on coastal matters.
Read moreNative American tribes cannot hold the U.S. government liable for the destruction of sacred sites and artifacts during a $355 million highway project, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreThe Navajo Nation has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Justice, ttorney General Jeff Sessions and Arizona law enforcement officials stemming from the 2016 police shooting death of Navajo Nation member Loreal Tsingine.
Read moreThe Puyallup tribe sued Washington state in Pierce County Court, claiming operations in and around Commencement Bay and a liquefied natural gas project will harm the salmon and shellfish upon which the tribe’s sustenance and traditions depend.
Read moreA clash between the authority of a sovereign Indian nation and non-native officials is shaping up in Florida, where tribal police entered a hospital in Miami to seize a newborn from her parents, a Miccosukee mother and a white father.
Read moreA Native American tribe that tried to fend off quiet-title claims with sovereign immunity struggled to make their case Wednesday at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreAn ex-Republican frontrunner for the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts is taking credit for the surprise announcement by Senator Elizabeth Warren that she will not run for president in 2020.
Read moreA federal judge refused Wednesday to stop a $7.3 million cut of federal funding that the Navajo Nation collects for an education program whose low enrollment has been chronic.
Read moreA federal judge rejected a challenge Wednesday to casino preparations that one tribe hammered out in the waning hours of the Obama administration.
Read moreThe Supreme Court sided with Congress on Tuesday regarding a law that blocked federal courts from hearing challenges about Michigan land taken into trust for Native Americans.
Read moreA group of Cayuga Indians whom the United States recognized as the New York tribe’s governing body can intervene in the challenge to that designation filed by a rival faction, a federal judge ruled.
Read more