Indian Country Today reports, http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416922, in part: “Violence against women, domestic and sexual abuse are grim enough wherever they occur. But in Indian country, according to accounts that have emerged from multiple sources over several years, the aftershock is often complicated by practical unpreparedness on the part of health care providers, jurisdictional limitations on police, [...]

Indian Country Today reports, in part, on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the Blackfeet Nation Housing Authority waived its sovereign immunity and can be sued about faulty home construction: “John T. Harrison, a lawyer with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes who filed the tribe’s amicus brief in this case, worries [...]

Indian Country Today reports: “The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has taken the next step in the struggle to maintain tribal sovereignty over gaming at Indian casinos. The nation has appealed National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Raymond Green’s March 11 decision to uphold a United Auto Workers election, held Nov. 24 at Foxwoods Resort [...]

The infrastructure in Indian country is in poor condition relative to that of the rest of the U.S. Thus, it is worrisome to hear of the BIA proposing to cut its Indian road maintenance program by 50%. “The Navajo Nation is fighting attempts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to cut road maintenance funds in [...]

“Ten members of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa were arrested on Wednesday after they made good on a threat to stage a takeover of the tribal government. The protesters barricaded themselves in tribal headquarters around 1:30am yesterday morning. They said they had enough food and water to last several months and [...]

“In a disturbingly dishonest op-ed entitled “Minnesota’s tribes have it both ways,” Republican state senator Dick Day repeats old anti-Indian canards in a callow, self-serving way. This piece is irresponsibly simpleminded and should not go unchallenged. It is ignorant of history, of the U.S. Constitution, of modern law, and of ethics. It is also sadly [...]

“The Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians is buying a 25 percent stake in a housing factory in Otay Mesa, California. The tribe is using a $1.25 million federal grant to invest in the factory. The goal is to encourage employment and economic development. The Paradigm Group says the housing factory is doing well. “We [...]

“The dispute over the legal status of the Cherokee Freedmen will be heard by a federal appeals court in May amid efforts by Congress to resolve the controversy. The Freedmen are the descendants of former slaves. They say a treaty signed after the end of the Civil War guarantees them citizenship in the Cherokee Nation [...]

“The Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan is asking the University of Michigan to return about 1,200 ancestors and artifacts. The tribe says the university’s Museum of Anthropology is not complying with the Native American Graves Protections and Repatriation Act. “There was never any consultation with any of the Tribes or Native people,” Shannon Martin, the [...]

“Faced with more restrictions on border-crossings, the tribes of the Kumeyaay Nation in the United States have come together to help their relatives who live in Mexico. The tribes in 1988 formed the Kumeyaay Border Task Force. The group worked with the Mexican government to ensure that Kumeyaay in Mexico, many of whom lack birth [...]