Native American Politics, Indian Law, Tribal Politics (Page 308)

The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 2

This is part 2 of a series about the custody battle for...

Rios Montt Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala

On Friday, May 10th, former Dictator and General Jose...

Repeal Health Care Law? Again? So Now What?

The U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a vote...

Dr. Jill Biden to Deliver Navajo Technical College Commencement Address

You may not have heard of Navajo Technical College (NTC) in...

Great Plains ICWA Summit Hoping to Address Native Foster Care Concerns

The Great Plains ICWA Summit has been a long time coming...

Freedom of Information Act Used To Push IHS To Offer Plan B Over the Counter

Mainstream Americans continue to battle over the...

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Politics

Crow Judge Denies Petition to Stop Water Settlement Act Vote

Gale Courey Toensing

March 17, 2011

A Crow tribal court judge has denied a petition for a temporary restraining order to halt a referendum asking Crow members to ratify the Crow Water Settlement Act of 2010...

Looking for Answers

S.E. Ruckman

March 17, 2011

ANADARKO, Okla.—To Eddie Jacobs, the Cobell case is personal. He is not just an Individual Indian Monies (IIM) account holder with a number, he said...

Peru Generals Sentenced, Fined Over Native Killings

Renzo Pipoli

March 17, 2011

News broke this week that three high-ranking Peruvian police and army generals were given suspended prison sentences and fined by a military court, the result of findings that they...

EPA Releases Emissions Rules for Coal-fired Power Plants

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday issued the first-ever U.S...

Human Rights Tribunal Dismisses Discrimination Complaint; First Nations to Appeal

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on Monday dismissed a 2007 case alleging that First Nations children were being discriminated against by discrepancies in funding between federal...

Walter Echo-Hawk on Supreme Court Failures

Jack McNeel

March 16, 2011

Spokane, Wash.—He’s a lawyer, professor, activist, author and more; his latest book, In the Courts of the Conqueror; The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided , is nothing less th...

EPA Poised to Issue Industrial-emissions Rules

ICTMN Staff

March 16, 2011

Coal-plant mercury emissions will soon be regulated, good news for the tens of thousands of American Indians whose lives have been poisoned by mercury and other contaminants...

Seneca Nation Hires High-Powered Consultants to Help with Kinzua Relicensing Efforts

Gale Courey Toensing

March 15, 2011

ALLEGANY TERRITORY, Salamanca, NY – The Seneca Nation of Indians has hired two high-powered Pennsylvania firms to help in its efforts to win the hydropower license for the Kinzua D...

Anthropology Student Draws Parallels Between Murdered Women in Canada, Mexico

ICTMN Staff

March 15, 2011

Canada is increasingly being forced to pay attention to the murder and disappearance of hundreds of aboriginal women over the past several years, cases that stand apart because the...

Historic Document Opposing Kinzua Dam Returned to Seneca Nation

Gale Courey Toensing

March 15, 2011

It’s browned, tattered around the edges with a few tears and a tape mark in the middle, but the 55-year-old document was welcomed with gratitude by the Seneca Nation of Indians ...