Ray Cook, ICTMN Opinion Editor

Native Leaders Need to Put People, Not Politics, First

Dear Readers:...

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May 17, 2013

Interior: Mashpee Trust Land Decision on Track for Early 2013

Gale Courey Toensing
January 14, 2013
The Department of the Interior plans to complete the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s application for trust land for gaming in January...

NIGA Chairman Ernie Stevens Jr. Weighs In on Carcieri and Internet Gaming

Gale Courey Toensing
October 01, 2012
National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) Chairman Ernie Stevens Jr., a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, says there was “a real sense of tribal unity” at the Democratic Na...

Experts Urge Congressional Carcieri Fix—Again

Gale Courey Toensing
September 18, 2012
John Echohawk More than a dozen lawsuits are clogging federal and state courts in what Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Executive Director John Echohawk called “a judicially-crea...
David Wilkins

Federal Assumptions That Enfeeble Native America

Native American people and the distinctive nations they belong to exist in a paradoxical world. They are the original nations of North America, a fact that is enshrined in the U.S....

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July 18, 2012

Observers Optimistic Gun Lake Case Will Be Decided on a Narrow Legal Question

Rob Capriccioso & Gale Courey Toensing
May 06, 2012
When the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Salazar v...

Part 3: The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Indian Territory

Gale Courey Toensing
February 15, 2012
February 8 marked the 125th anniversary of the notorious Dawes Act . This is part three of a three-part series on this devastating bit of legislation...

Indian Law Expert and Turtle Talk Blogger Matthew Fletcher on His Tribal Law Tome

Gale Courey Toensing
December 28, 2011
The first legal casebook dedicated entirely to tribal law is the fruit of seven years of work by Dr. Matthew L.M...
Bill Lomax

Job Creators Paralyzed by Supreme Court’s Carcieri Decision

In the Carcieri v. Salazar decision, the Supreme Court stood 75 years of policy and practice on its head....

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December 14, 2011

Carcieri: Indian Country's 'Number One Priority'

Gale Courey Toensing
December 01, 2011
Legislators in the House and the Senate have promised to move a Carcieri fix forward during the current congressional session. Sen. Daniel Kahikina Akaka (D-Hawaii) and Rep...

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