Court Cases (Page 13)

Inuit and Canadian Officials Lash Out at European Union's Seal Products Ban

Canadian, Inuit and international trade leaders alike are...

Montana's Native Vote Could Decide US Senate Control

The decision of U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) not...

Cherokee Attorney Earns National Crime Victims' Service Award

Dianne Barker Harrold took a seven-year experience with...

Cape Wind: Justice Department Urges Swift Lawsuit Resolution Before Tax Breaks Expire

Lawyers from the Department of Justice have urged a federal...

Jim Thorpe's Sons Win Federal Lawsuit Against Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a...

Exxon Removing Section of Ruptured Arkansas Pipeline

Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday April 15 removed 52 feet of its...

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Federal Government Supports Mohawk Land Claim

Gale Courey Toensing

November 28, 2012

In what is being hailed by the St...

The Return of Sacred Miigwans

Currents newspaper 2012-13

November 27, 2012

Recently a young man (a tribal descendent) was sentenced in District Court in Grand Rapids for charges related to the selling of the feathers of Migizi (the bald eagle)...

Indian Civil Rights Act Violations Alleged

Carol Berry

November 17, 2012

A Tohono O’odham Nation member’s claim of unlawful detention, dismissed by a District Court, also got a thumbs-down from the U.S...

Onondaga Nation Files En Banc Petition in Land Rights Case

Gale Courey Toensing

November 16, 2012

The Onondaga Nation has asked a federal appeals court for an en banc—or full panel—review of a decision by a three-judge panel that who affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of the Na...

Galanda Named a ‘Difference Maker’ by the ABA

Richard Walker

November 13, 2012

Gabriel “Gabe” Galanda, Round Valley Indian Tribes, received the “Difference Maker Award” from the American Bar Association October 12, at the fall leadership meeting and National ...

Akaka to Push Passage of Carcieri and More in Lame Duck Session

Gale Courey Toensing

November 12, 2012

Senator Daniel Kahikina Akaka and Loretta Tuell, his chief of staff and chief counsel on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, said they won’t stop working to pass a clean Carcie...

Keweenaw Bay Indians' Fight Against Michigan Mine Detailed in Series

ICTMN Staff

November 11, 2012

As Kennecott Eagle Minerals lurches toward completing its plan to begin mining copper and nickel from tribal lands in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula beginning in 2014, the fight...

Gabrielle Giffords' Shooter, Jared Loughner, Gets Life Sentence

ICTMN Staff

November 08, 2012

Today, in a federal courtroom in Tucson, Arizona, former U.S. Rep...

Captured Criminal Justice In Alaska Native Villages

Duane Champagne

November 08, 2012

Criminal justice administration in the state of Alaska is very centralized. It is also very ineffective...

Blackfeet Voters Hampered by Intimidation, Lack of Ballots

Stephanie Woodard

November 07, 2012

In the late afternoon of an Election Day marred by voter intimidation and what appeared to be a faked anthrax attack on the Blackfeet tribal hall in Browning, Montana —and after a ...