Native American advocates told lawmakers on a Senate panel Wednesday that tribal police should have jurisdiction over violent cases committed by non-Natives on tribal land and the federal government should improve databases tracking such crimes.
Read moreThree Native American tribes have called for a halt to preliminary work on a planned copper mine in southern Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains.
Read moreA bill to restore ownership of tribal land to the Mashpee Wampanoag after the Trump administration took away their Massachusetts reservation passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, though what will happen in the Senate is anyone’s guess.
Read moreIn his latest dispatch, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief hangs with prairie dogs and bison in an area with a troubled history.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed that a Wisconsin-based Native American tribe waited too long to try to block the expansion of a nearby casino run by the larger Ho-Chunk Nation.
Read moreAn online lending company owned by the Chippewa Cree cannot invoke tribal immunity to block claims that it charged two Vermonters usurious interest rates, the Second Circuit ruled.
Read moreOn the northern tip of California, a rugged landscape of volcanic rock, lava beds and conifer forests has served as the ancestral home of Native Americans for thousands of years. But things changed some decades ago when corporate interests began creeping onto the rocky terrain.
Read moreUpholding tribal rights, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Washington cannot tax a fuel distributor owned by the Yakama Indian Nation for using public roads to import product.
Read moreA lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission may have overplayed the agency’s hand Friday at the D.C. Circuit in denying that a 2018 rule change would endanger sites sacred to Native Americans.
Read moreLow-income communities and people of color will enjoy fuller access to California’s beaches thanks to the California Coastal Commission’s adoption of an environmental justice policy Friday that will provide clear guidelines for development projects along the Pacific Coast.
Read moreA Native American tribe opposed to oil and gas drilling underneath Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota should not have filed their case in Washington, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated an order by the Federal Communications Commission limiting federal subsidies for wireless providers bringing service to tribal lands, finding it unfairly impacted access and affordability for Native Americans.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Friday sided with a Native American tribe when it found that corporations cannot “scheme” with state governments to indefinitely delay water quality reviews that could lead to stricter environmental protection conditions for dams and hydropower projects.
Read moreFallout from the federal government shutdown is hurting hundreds of Native American tribes and entities that serve them.
The pain is especially deep in tribal communities with high rates of poverty and unemployment, and where one person often supports an extended family.
An attorney for a Native American tribe took aim at century-old Supreme Court precedent Tuesday, telling the justices they should not allow it to invalidate the Crow Tribe of Indians’ right to hunt in a national forest in Wyoming.
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 moreSnow made from reclaimed wastewater for an Arizona ski resort won’t cause the Hopi Tribe any nuisance beyond what the general public would suffer despite the presence of sacred sites nearby, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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