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Tribal Marijuana: Don’t Believe the Hype
Gabe Galanda recently kicked off the “Tribal Participation In the Cannabis Industry“-conference in Portland, Oregon. Gabe delivered a monologue that attempted to bring some rationality to the Indian...
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EPA Offers Revised Clean Water Act TAS Rules
By Ryan Dreveskracht The current regulation of water pollution in Indian country is complex, to say the least. Governed largely by the Clean Water Act (“CWA”)—a comprehensive statute designed to...
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Federal Law Enforcement Void Invites Human Trafficking in Indian Country
By Joe Sexton Indian Country is not immune to the crime of human trafficking. In fact, given the history of federal law enforcement negligence and the federal government’s willful oppression of...
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Only Lawyers Can Spark the Federal Indian “Human Rights Era”
By Jared Miller Since President Barack Obama announced the United States’ endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Declaration) in 2010, some legal scholars...
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Federal Court Grants Tribe’s Injunction Against Fracking Rule
By Amber Penn-Roco On March 26, 2015, the Bureau of Land Management issued a final rule concerning hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands, which was in turn challenged by the States of...
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Natives Turn Local “Deadliest Enemies” Into Change Agents
Towns, cities and counties, as tribal communities’ closest neighbors, have historically played a major role in the “deadliest enemies“-dynamic of tribal-state relations. At the municipal level Indians...
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Tribes Could Lose Big If Nebraska Prevails in “Diminishment” Case
By Jared Miller When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Nebraska v. Parker earlier this month, it created the real possibility of a new kind of land-grab in Indian country. Nebraska is a reservation...
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Marijuana Tribes: Beware of the DEA’s Trojan Horse
In 2013, I published “Federal Task Force: Indian Country’s Trojan Horse,” explaining: Beware of the federal task force. . . . [T]he federal task force is a Trojan Horse when it enters Indian country....
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Recognize. Disenrolled Indians Acknowledged As Their Own Tribes
By Bree Black Horse It could happen. In fact, the Federal Government is currently considering whether a band of disenrolled California Pomo Indians should be recognized as their own tribe. Other...
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Will SCOTUS Double Down Against Tribal Courts In Dollar General?
By Jared Miller Last week, U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch remarked on the success of a pilot program allowing select tribes to prosecute non-Indians for domestic violence under the reauthorized...
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