Court Cases (Page 38)

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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Martin Avery Nominated to Navajo Government Development Commission

ICTMN Staff

December 10, 2011

Chief Justice Herb Yazzie announced on November 30 that Martin Avery has been nominated for a two-year appointment to the Navajo Government Development Commission...

Supreme Court Approached on ICWA Issue

Carol Berry

December 10, 2011

The Cherokee Nation and one of its members have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide issues raised by a ruling of the U.S...

Lucinda Adekai-Yellowhair Appointed to State Committee on Probation

ICTMN Staff

December 07, 2011

With a background of more than 20 years in the judicial system, Lucinda Adekai-Yellowhair, chief probation officer of the Navajo Nation was recently announced as the tribal communi...

Yankton Sioux Seek Justice for 17-Year Old Case at the White House Tribal Nations Conference

Stephanie Woodard

December 06, 2011

During the recent White House Tribal Nations Conference, Yankton Sioux Tribe chairman Thurmond Cournoyer hand-delivered a message to Charles Galbraith, Navajo, associate director o...

Lengthy Criminal Records Matter to 10th Circuit

Carol Berry

December 06, 2011

A Nambe Pueblo member who objected to the length of his sentence for assault failed to persuade a federal appeals court that his prison term was too long...

Seeking Justice: Unable to Get Son's Murder Case Reopend, Native Family Sues FBI

Charles Pulliam

December 05, 2011

On February 2, 2005, after the two men had spent a long day working on the range together, Bob Holcomb shot Steven Bearcrane-Cole between the eyes, killing him...

New Law Attempts to Bring Justice to Indian Country

Tristan Ahtone

December 01, 2011

This complex story begins in the summer of 1881, when prominent Lakota chief Spotted Tail was assassinated on the Rosebud Reservation by a Lakota subchief named Crow Dog...

Ramapough Indian’s Family Awarded $2.1 Million for Fatal Shooting by Park Ranger

ICTMN Staff

November 29, 2011

On November 28, a jury in Hackensack, New Jersey awarded more than $2.1 million to the family of a Ramapough Indian who was fatally shot five years ago in Makwah during a confronta...

Infighting and Porn Replaced Police Work: Reports

ICTMN Staff

November 23, 2011

From infighting to porn-ogling, police conduct is coming under fire from within its own ranks before the British Columbia Missing Women of Inquiry, the panel investigating why seri...

Native Americans Sue Washington State For Sending Them to Mission School

ICTMN Staff

November 23, 2011

As reported by the Associated Press, eight Native Americans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Washington Department of Social and Health Services...