Lauren Klosinski | October 1, 2020 | American Indian Law
On September 30, 2020 The DOJ announced it had awarded more than $295.8 million in grants to serve Native communities. The following in a excerpt from the press release. The Department of Justice today announced it has awarded more than $295.8 million to improve...
Lauren Klosinski | September 23, 2020 | American Indian Law
On Sept. 21, 2020, a bipartisan bill aimed at addressing the issue of missing and murdered Native Americans passed the U.S. House. The following is an excerpt from a press release from The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Senator John Hoeven, chairman...
Elizabeth A. Reese | September 15, 2020 | American Indian Law
ABSTRACTAmerican legal scholarship focuses almost exclusively on federal, state, and local law. However, there are 574 federally recognized tribal governments within the United States whose laws are largely ignored. This Article brings to the fore the exclusion of...
Troy A. Eid | August 25, 2020 | American Indian Law
Media Coverage of McGirt: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’Confusion permeates the public arena as to what the U.S. Supreme Court recently did – and didn’t do – by ruling in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe, and against the state...
Ronald J. Mann | July 10, 2020 | American Indian Law
This article was originally posted on SCOTUSblog.com on July 9, 2020. The first thing we learned this morning with the announcement of the decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma was that Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t manage to be in the majority in every single 5-4...
