In another win for tribal self-determination, the U.S...
The lieutenant governor in 2009 of the Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico, is challenging her conviction of knowingly leaving the scene of a car accident where she hit and killed a ped...
A long-term prisoner was out of confinement only three months before he accumulated five violations for marijuana and prescription drug use and several drug-related offenses, accor...
Indian voters living in and around Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation may be able to elect more Native county commissioners thanks to a ruling by a federal appeals court...
A federal appeals court has unanimously upheld a lower court ruling blocking the implementation of an Oklahoma state law that would prohibit the use of Islamic Sharia law or intern...
Carol Berry
December 27, 2011
Ruling on a request termed “incomprehensible,” a three-judge panel of the U.S...
Carol Berry
December 26, 2011
Even if Uncle Sam is short on cash, the government may have to pay—or not—contract support costs (CSC) under a law designed to increase Native participation in federal services to ...
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...
Carol Berry
November 21, 2011
The past isn’t dead—it isn’t even past, according to an adage that may mirror issues aired November 17 in oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S...
Carol Berry
November 17, 2011
Native American Heritage Month will see a key test of sovereignty in the U.S...

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