The Tule Lake Committee sued the FAA, the Tulelake City Council, et al. in federal court, claiming they violated state and federal law by selling the site of the Tule Lake WWII concentration camp to co-defendant Modoc Nation for $22,000 less than the committee’s offer, for political reasons.
Read moreYears after the Dakota Access Pipeline fueled outrage across the country, the government has been ordered to prepare a new report on environmental impacts — one opponents warn will be devastating.
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The Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations sued a group of commercial insurers Tuesday, demanding payment on business interruption claims for the closure of their Oklahoma casinos due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Several Kentucky Catholic school students involved in last year’s videotaped confrontation with a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and others, claiming their tweets about the incident sparked harassment and threats.
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Native American voters in North Dakota will have an easier time at polling places after the state agreed to settle two tribes’ lawsuit over laws that restricted voters without proper identification.
Read moreA federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled against the Narragansett Tribe, which was seeking an order to compel the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to amend its regulations. While the tribe waited for the agency’s actions on its motion to intervene in the permitting process for a gas pipeline, construction was completed, destroying more than 20 ceremonial stone features.
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The Native American tribe that joined with the Pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving in 1621 asked the First Circuit on Wednesday for permission to offer more modern-day hospitality at a $1 billion casino resort.
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A Seventh Circuit panel ruled Monday that federal law offers no recourse for a Wisconsin tribe challenging a permit which would allow runoff from a Michigan sulfide mine into a river on the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, leaving the tribe to fight administratively in Michigan.
Read moreThe Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians claims the Coachella Valley Water District and Desert Water Agency are imposing an unlawful “replenishment assessment charge” on the tribe’s production of groundwater, in federal court.
Read moreA full 16-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday in a case that challenges a 1978 law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving children who are identified as belonging to a Native American tribe.
Read moreStanding Raven aka Doug Tobin claims State Farm Insurance refused to cover the theft of his fishing boat and trailer because of racial discrimination against him, as a member of the Squaxin Indian tribe, in Pierce County Court, Wash.
Read moreThe 30th Hawaii Legislature convened Wednesday with urgent calls by lawmakers to stem the exodus of Native Hawaiians from the islands and to protect the 214,000 of them – nearly half of their population – who live in poverty.
Read moreA federal judge declined on Friday to order the government to allow the Chinook Indian Nation to reapply for federal recognition, but he did toss out the Department of Interior’s decision to ban such second tries and told the department to re-evaluate the rule.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday in favor of an Indian tribe based in northern Wisconsin, for now settling the tribe’s beef with a county over whose zoning ordinances have ultimate authority over reservation lands.
Read moreA Native American claims a teacher at Cibola High School in Albuquerque called her a “bloody Indian” in front of her 11th-grade English class, “moments after she cut off the braids of another female Native American student against her will in front of the same class,” in Bernalillo County Court.
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CNN has settled a lawsuit with a Kentucky teen who claimed media organizations falsely labeled him as a racist following a well-publicized encounter with a Native American last year at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
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Bronze-cast carvings depicting the heroes of Chinook Indian mythology will soon greet visitors entering Seattle’s Burke Museum, their exploits having been passed through oral history for millennia. But the federal government claims the tellers of those stories – people who ran the major trade hub where the mouth of the Columbia River spills into the Pacific Ocean and who received Lewis & Clark at the end of their journey – do not qualify for federal recognition as a legitimate Indian nation.
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