Court Cases (Page 6)

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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House Introduces Bill to Ban Racist 'Redskins' Trademark

Gale Courey Toensing

March 21, 2013

A new law banning the trademarking of the term “redskins” and other racist language against Native Americans may accomplish what a number of court cases have so far failed to do...

House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Ban Redskins Trademark

ICTMN Staff

March 21, 2013

Just nine days after the U.S...

A New Generation Takes on the Redskins; Asks Team’s Lawyers to Buy New Dictionaries

Rob Capriccioso

March 21, 2013

Amanda Blackhorse, a 31-year-old Navajo social worker, was in Alexandria, Virginia in early March to begin the next phase of getting the National Football League’s Washington, D.C...

Cobell Lawyers' Fees Dispute Sent to Mediation

Gale Courey Toensing

March 20, 2013

A federal judge has referred a dispute over millions of dollars of attorneys’ fees related to the $3.4 billion settlement of the Cobell class-action lawsuit to a special magistrate...

Native Mob Members Found Guilty, Face 20 Years to Life in Prison

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

Indian country in the Upper Midwest can feel a little safer following a March 19 decision that has federal prosecutors saying they’ve weakened a violent American Indian gang...

Professor Caught on Video Shoving Student, Arrested

Simon Moya-Smith

March 20, 2013

A confrontation between University of Oregon adjunct law professor James Olmsted and student activists ended Thursday with Olmsted’s arrest and subsequent removal from the campus, ...

Video: Watch the Arrest of Muscogee Man Held on Terrorist Threat Charges

ICTMN Staff

March 13, 2013

Save Hickory Ground posted this video of Wayland Gray, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen, and three others being arrested to its Facebook page on March 6...

American Indian College Fund to Administer Cobell Scholarship Fund

ICTMN Staff

March 13, 2013

The Cobell Education Scholarship Fund will be administered by the American Indian College Fund with a fifth of the annual scholarships awarded by the American Indian Graduate Cente...

Jubilation and Celebration as Métis Mark Massive Land Claims Court Victory

ICTMN Staff

March 12, 2013

From the verdict's announcement in Ottawa, to the jubilation at the airport in Winnipeg, the Métis spent this past weekend celebrating the validation of their 143-year-old land cla...

Manitoba Métis Win Historic Land Claims Case Against Canada

David P. Ball

March 08, 2013

Métis people in Canada are jubilant after the Supreme Court of Canada resolved a legal land battle that was 143 years in the making, the second historic constitutional victory in m...