The court concluded that reservation property held by tribes since allotment could not taxed by the state, but tribal property becomes taxable once it changes hands to non-Indian ownership.
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Oklahoma’s attorney general asked the state’s top criminal appeals court to rehear a triple murder case after a death-row inmate’s conviction was tossed out based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute due to Congress’s failure to dissolve the tribal lands the crimes were committed on.
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A relocation program will seek to introduce the California condor, which only had a population of 23 in the late 1980s, to the Pacific Northwest in a bid to restore the bird to its ancient grounds.
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Federal prosecutors need a Supreme Court reversal after jurisdiction concerns torpedoed the fruits of a tribal officer’s traffic search.
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A federal judge affirmed dismissal of a lawsuit in which Oregon ranchers sued to prevent the Klamath Tribes from exercising their superior water rights that interfere with irrigation of the ranchers’ lands. The tribes have preexisting authority to control their water rights under an 1864 treaty with the U.S. government.
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An Oklahoma appeals court agreed with a death-row inmate that the state lacks jurisdiction to prosecute him because the killings occurred on Chickasaw Nation territory that was never dissolved by Congress and victims were tribe members.
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Although the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona has been ravaged by Covid-19 — at one point serving as the world epicenter of infections — the Tohono O’odham Nation has not been hit as hard.
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Governments worldwide are using the Covid-19 pandemic to push through destructive development projects and roll back protections of indigenous groups, according to a global report on deforestation and rule of law released Thursday.
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An appeals court in Michigan vacated a ruling against a man cited for spearfishing in a closed stream who says the charges should be dismissed because he is a member of an Indian tribe that was granted hunting and fishing rights in treaties with the U.S. government. The man is given an opportunity to prove his tribe is a “political successor” to the tribe that signed an 1836 treaty.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona denied a tribal group’s request for a preliminary injunction in its suit seeking to stop the transfer of land within the Tonto National Forest, which includes a sacred Apache ceremonial ground, to copper mining companies.
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Snoqualmie tribal offices were closed Friday to honor the death of Chief Andy de los Angeles, who led the tribe’s decades-long effort to re-gain federal recognition. But the fight wasn’t over.
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Taking action nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the Biden administration approved the Navajo Nation’s request and declared a major disaster exists for the tribe, freeing up federal funding for tribal and nonprofit organizations for emergency protective measures.
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President Joe Biden issued four executive orders Tuesday aimed at removing the stain of systemic racism from nearly every aspect of American life, including one barring the Department of Justice from signing new contracts with private prisons.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona denied Apache Stronghold’s request for a temporary restraining order to present the U.S. government from publishing a final environmental impact statement on a copper mine project, which would permit the sale of 2,422-acres of land that the plaintiff’s claim is “Western Apache land” under an 1852 treaty.
Read moreThe tribal group Apache Stronghold sued the United States to prevent the transfer of federal lands to mining interests that would “illegally annihilate” a “Western Apache cultural property known to the Apache since time immemorial as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel.”
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Forest fires and development have nearly decimated the Mt. Graham red squirrel, with only about 100 left in their “bottleneck habitat.”
Read moreA land swap between agrochemical giant Simplot and the federal government lacked proper environmental analysis and the resulting expansion of Simplot’s gypsum stack will harm the area’s water, flora and fauna, the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation say in a federal complaint.
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A tribe of Native Americans argued before the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday that a treaty signed with the U.S. government in 1855 created an Indian reservation that must be honored by the state of Michigan.
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It had been set to hear the case next month, but the U.S. Supreme Court sidelined arguments Friday on the secret grand jury materials behind former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Federal prosecutors announced Friday the murder indictment of a former Tulsa cop convicted in state court for killing his daughter’s boyfriend, but who is now demanding his release after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidated Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction on Native American tribal lands.
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