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DOJ awards $14.9M for tribal law enforcement (08/29)
The Department of Justice announced $14.9 million in tribal law enforcement grants on Thursday. The money is going to 80 tribes in 22 states. It's part of the Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP) within the Office of Community Oriented Policing...
Border agent sues Ford over reservation accident (08/28)
A U.S. Border Patrol officer is suing Ford Motor Company for an accident on the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona that left him in a quadriplegic state. Luis Pena, 31, was responding to a narcotics call on the reservation when...
Pueblo leader denies wrongdoing on tobacco (08/28)
A Pueblo leader whose home and business were raided by federal agents says he was doing nothing wrong by selling tax-free cigarettes on the Internet. Paul Rainbird, the lieutenant governor at San Ildefonso Pueblo, believed it was legal to sell...
Sentencing for ex-Oglala Sioux leader delayed (08/28)
Don Garnier, a former council member for the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, will wait until October 1 to be sentenced on drug charges. Garnier, 39, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of...
Law enforcement an issue on Pine Ridge Reservation (08/28)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs says it might take over law enforcement on the Pine Ridge Reservation if conditions don't improve. The BIA sent 25 temporary officers to the reservation after half of the police force for the Oglala Sioux...
Highest court in Brazil weighs Indian rights case (08/28)
Brazil's Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in a complaint against the size of a 4.2 million-acre reservation in the Amazon. The Raposa Serra do Sol reservation is home to about 18,000 members of the Makuxi, Wapixana, Ingariko, Taurepang and...
Pueblo leader's home raided in smokeshop probe (08/27)
Federal agents raided the home of a Pueblo leader on Tuesday as part of an investigation into untaxed cigarettes. Paul Rainbird, the lieutenant governor at San Ildefonso Pueblo, operates the Silver Cloud Smokeshop. He buys wholesale cigarettes from Costco and...
Banished Snoqualmie members in federal court (08/27)
A federal judge in Washington heard arguments on Tuesday over the banishment of nine members of the Snoqualmie Tribe. The banished members said tribe violated the Indian Civil Right Act by ousting them without due process. They said federal...
Third man indicted in 1975 murder of Aquash (08/27)
A third man has been charged in connection with the 1975 murder of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. Vine Richard Marshall, also known as Dick Marshall, was charged with aiding and abetting the first-degree murder of Aquash....
Narragansett man appeals verdict in raid case (08/27)
A member of the Narragansett Tribe is asking the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to hear his excessive force case against a Rhode Island state trooper. Adam Jennings was at the tribe's smokeshop when it was raided by the state...
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe opposes tobacco tax bill (08/26)
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe is joining the fight against a tobacco tax bill in New York. The tribe says the bill will hurt the economy in northern New York. Tribal leaders said tobacco sales generate more than $2 million...
Arrests for 2001 murders of Turtle Mountain men (08/26)
Two men have been charged in connection with the seven-year-old murders of two members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota. Robert Belgarde, 40, and his 19-year-old son, Damien, were killed in Grand Forks on September...
Rita Keshena, Menominee chief justice, dies at 87 (08/26)
Rita Keshena, the chief justice of the Menominee Nation court, died on Sunday. She was 87. Keshena was a tribal member. She entered the law field at age 57 to help her tribe. "She was a strong voice for the...
Appeals court changes mind in Blackfeet housing case (08/25)
A federal appeals court on Friday again waded into a dispute over faulty homes that were built by the Blackfeet Nation of Montana. The decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was the third in a long-running case that...
Response: The South Dakota Indian crime study (08/22)
"On July 28, distinguished professors Carole Goldberg and Kevin Washburn wrote an opinion piece in Indian Country Today stating, ''It would be a mistake to accept the conclusions of the South Dakota study,'' which is set to be published this...
Men attacked members of Passamaquoddy Tribe (08/22)
A court in Maine has ordered five adult men to stay away from five young members of the Passamaquoddy Tribe. The state accused the men of driving to the Indian Township reservation and threatening five tribal members who range in...
Interview: Attorney in San Francisco Peaks case (08/22)
Leslie Thatcher of Truthout interviews Howard Shanker, an attorney and Congressional candidate who represents the Navajo Nation in the San Francisco Peaks case. A full panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the use of reclaimed sewage...
Sen. Stevens loses motion to move trial to Alaska (08/21)
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) will face trial on corruption charges in Washington, D.C., a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. Stevens, who is charged with seven counts of making false statements, wanted the trial moved to Alaska in order to continue...
Comanche Nation battles Army over sacred site (08/20)
A federal judge has blocked the U.S. Army from starting a construction project at Fort Sill in Oklahoma out of concern for the religious rights of the Comanche Nation. The tribe says it wasn't consulted about the development of a...
Former Navajo police officer charged with murder (08/20)
A former police officer for the Navajo Nation is being charged with the murder of his girlfriend. Harrison Largo was charged in 2002 with savagely beating Freda Toledo Smith and her daughter. But the charges were reduced after Smith...
10th Circuit to hear jury discrimination case (08/20)
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments today in a jury discrimination case involving a member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. Kerry Dean Benally, 36, was found guilty of assaulting Bureau of Indian Affairs officer...
Soboba Reservation attempted murder trial opens (08/19)
A man and a woman are on trial for attempted murder for allegedly shooting at bounty hunters on the Soboba Reservation in southern California. The bounty hunters went to the reservation in August 2004 to arrest Dino Allen Moreno, 42,...
Fort Belknap man sentenced for drunk-driving death (08/19)
A man from the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for a drunk-driving death. Kenneth "Gus" Helgeson, 62, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. His blood alcohol content was three times the legal...
Law Article: Tribes can't promote tax avoidance (08/19)
"In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a tribe cannot protect non-Indian contractors from state taxation. The decision sends a clear signal to businesses contracting with tribes that they must pay state sales...
Appeals court delays casino for Michigan tribe (08/18)
A Michigan tribe's casino project was put in extended limbo on Friday so that an anti-gaming group can pursue an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, also known as the Gun Lake Tribe, has...
Big marijuana find on Tohono O'odham Nation (08/18)
The U.S. Border Patrol seized more than a ton of marijuana on the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona last Thursday. In the first incident, more than 1,400 pounds of marijuana were found in an SUV parked outside a home after...
Judge backs fishing rights for Wenatchi Band (08/18)
The Wenatchi Band of Washington has fishing rights at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, a federal judge ruled last Tuesday. The Wenatchi are part of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Judge Garr King said the band retains fishing...
BIA sends 25 temporary officers to Pine Ridge (08/15)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has sent 25 temporary police officers to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The officers are helping after about half of the police force for the Oglala Sioux Tribe walked out on the job...
EPA challenged over Navajo power plant permit (08/15)
Seven environmental groups, including Dine Citizens Against Ruining our Environment, are challenging an air permit for the Navajo Nation's proposed power plant. The Environmental Protection Agency approved an air permit late last month in response to a lawsuit filed by...
Cahuilla teen blames racism for stop by deputies (08/15)
A member of the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians says deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department stopped and detained him because he is Indian. Michael Malone, 19, says deputies pointed a Taser at him and remarked, "Yee-haw, boys, we caught...
Miccosukee Tribe loses motion on Everglades project (08/15)
A federal judge on Thursday denied a motion by the Miccosukee Tribe to restart a water project in the Florida Everglades. The tribe wants the state to restart construction on a large reservoir. But Judge Federico Moreno said the project...
Seneca Nation lobbies governor on tobacco tax bill (08/14)
The Seneca Nation is sending a delegation to lobby New York Gov. David Paterson (D) on a tobacco tax bill. The tribe says state taxation violates treaty rights and its sovereignty. Taxation will hurt the local economy and lead to...
Crow Reservation admits filing false rape report (08/14)
A woman from the Crow Reservation in Montana pleaded guilty to making false statements. Vanessa Antoinette Stewart, 33, admitted she made up the rape allegations. She faces up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine. She will be...
Navajo medicine man sentenced for rape (08/14)
A 70-year-old Navajo medicine man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for raping a 15-year-old girl in New Mexico. David Filfred initially denied having contact with the girl, who became pregnant following the assault in 2002. DNA tests showed...
Frank's Landing smokeshop owners enter pleas (08/14)
A plea agreement for the former owners of a smokeshop at Frank's Landing's Indian Community in Washington was announced on Wednesday. Henry and Alison Gottfriedson pleaded guilty to conspiracy and avoiding tax payments. They agreed to pay about $9.2 million...
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