Fallout 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.
Read moreThe Supreme Court appeared hesitant Tuesday about the practical effects of siding with a death-row inmate who says a large swath of eastern Oklahoma should be treated as a Native American reservation.
Read moreDismissing trespass claims against the Bishop Paiute Indian Tribe, which evicted individual tribal members from their land to build a casino, the Ninth Circuit found Wednesday that a tribal court must first resolve the members’ appeal.
Read moreA Utah county took its fight of a federal judge’s redrawing of election maps – done to remedy what the judge found as racial gerrymandering – to a 10th Circuit panel, arguing the “absurd results” included a historic takeover by Navajo Democrats in a special election.
Read moreA panel of D.C. Circuit judges appeared sympathetic Thursday to wireless providers that are no longer entitled to federal subsidies for bringing service to rural tribal lands.
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The Hoopa Valley Tribe sued the federal government again over the plight of the endangered coho salmon, claiming Wednesday that fishing management agencies are trying to skirt their own laws with this year’s salmon catch regulations.
Read moreNearly 50 members of three Native American tribes in North Dakota claim in a class action that Andeavor Logistics is unfairly profiting from a crude oil pipeline operating through tribal trust lands that it refuses to remove.
Read moreThe federal government can collect $58 million in delinquent taxes from a Native American tribal member’s tobacco business, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, upholding a trial court’s decision.
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 moreEnbridge Energy’s proposal to replace its rundown Line 3 oil pipeline was approved by Minnesota regulators on Thursday, upsetting opponents of the project who say the decision will be seen as a sign of disrespect to area tribes.
Read moreThe federal government will not pay for a $14.5 million highway contract on Montana’s Crow Indian Tribe reservation because it says the tribe cannot find the receipts for the project.
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.
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