Court Cases (Page 4)

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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NCAI, DOJ Weigh in on Behalf of Native Voting-Rights Plaintiffs

Stephanie Woodard

April 04, 2013

The National Congress of American Indians, which has been part of the Native suffrage struggle since its inception in the 1940s, cites Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in a March...

Georgia Students Fighting for First Integrated Prom

ICTMN Staff

April 04, 2013

What an odd headline to read and write in the year 2013—especially when the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation to be unconstitutional in 1954, but it apparently still happens...

Shanley Takes on Violence Against Women for Standing Rock Sioux

Tanya Lee

April 04, 2013

Erin Shanley, Cheyenne River Sioux, was sworn in as Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on March 4. Her appointment by U.S. Attorney Brendan V...

Neighbors Dispute Police Account of Shooting of Native Man in Seattle

Renee Roman Nose

April 03, 2013

Courtney Lewis lives in what had been until last month a pretty quiet Seattle neighborhood...

Quapaw Tribe Files Suit Against Federal Government for Alleged Land Mismanagement

Brian Daffron

April 02, 2013

The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma filed suit against the United States in federal court on March 25...

Activists Rally for Sacred Sites During NIGA Convention

Gale Courey Toensing

April 02, 2013

The struggle to save the Muscogee Creek Nation’s sacred Hickory Ground in Alabama has crossed the country, gaining su

Supreme Court Rejects Ward Churchill Appeal Without Comment

Carol Berry

April 02, 2013

Some civil libertarians may be upset—but likely won’t be surprised—at the U.S...

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Finally Hears Aboriginal Child Welfare Case

ICTMN Staff

April 01, 2013

After a seven-year legal fight waged by a prominent aboriginal-children’s advocate and the Assembly of First Nations against the federal government, the Canadian Human Rights Tribu...

Native Children Ask for Equal Rights in 'Letters to Canada' Video

ICTMN Staff

March 29, 2013

As the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the First Nations Children & Family Caring Society duke it out in the courts and before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the child...