Court Cases (Page 34)

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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Cheyenne River’s ICWA Director Discusses Challenges of Protecting Tribe’s Youngsters

Stephanie Woodard

February 14, 2012

Too many Native parents face extraordinary hurdles in keeping their children—including cultural misunderstandings and legal barriers that are unimaginable to many non-Native people...

Funding Inequities Amount to Racism Against Canada's Aboriginal Children, Federal Court Hears

ICTMN Staff

February 13, 2012

Aboriginal child welfare was on the docket in Federal Court on February 13 as child advocates argued that inequities in funding between on-reserve education, health and children’s ...

San Francisco Peaks Ruling Draws Heavy Opinions

Anne Minard

February 13, 2012

Flagstaff, Arizona residents were out in droves on February 10, to enjoy a sunny and unusually warm winter’s day in the shadow of the San Francisco Peaks...

Oglala Sioux Tribe Files $500M Lawsuit Against Brewers, Distributors and Sellers of Alcohol in Whiteclay, Nebraska

Vincent Schilling

February 13, 2012

The Oglala Sioux tribe filed a $500 million lawsuit February 9 against brewers (Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors, Pabst, Miller Brewers), retailers and distributors of alcohol so...

Sacred Site Faces Legalized Desecration From Arizona Snowbowl Wastewater

ICTMN Staff

February 10, 2012

The Navajo call them Doko’oo’sliid , or “Shining On Top.” To the Hopi, the peaks are Nuvatukaovi , or “The Place of Snow on the Very Top.” Whatever name they bear, the San Francisc...

Justice Department Monitoring Dawson Case

Valerie Taliman

February 10, 2012

FRESNO, Calif...

Neighbors in Hoods

Valerie Taliman

February 10, 2012

FRESNO – The day before the January 23 court hearing on her case, Patty Dawson prepared traditional Navajo naneskaadi (tortillas) over an open fire and served a potluck meal for fr...

Ninth Circuit Allows Recycled Sewage on Sacred San Francisco Peaks

Gale Courey Toensing

February 10, 2012

A federal appeals court has given an Arizona ski resort operating on federal land permission to use recycled sewage to make artificial snow on Humphrey’s Peak—the highest and the m...

Snowbowl’s Wastewater Snow Raises Health Concerns

ICTMN Staff

February 10, 2012

The Hopi Tribe filed a lawsuit in August 2011 claiming the City of Flagstaff's contract to sell 1.5 million gallons of reclaimed wastewater per day to the Arizona Snowbowl to creat...