Sovereignty & Federal RecognitionMishewal Wappo Tribe
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Casino concerns raise stakes for Napa in Wappo’s restoration quest (5/6/2012)
(California) -- If the Napa Valley was a plainer realm, without its bounty or its beauty, then perhaps this fight could be less fierce, and compromise more easily...
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LETTER: Tribal casino will attract Napans (5/5/2012)
(California) -- It seems everyone in Napa is worried about an tribal casino being built here. People are trying to have it stopped by complaining and writing letters,...
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Counties, Lawmakers Oppose Tribe’s Federal Recognition for Fear of Napa Valley Casino (3/9/2012)
(California) -- In an effort to privatize California’s smaller Indian reservations, Congress stripped the Mishewal Wappos and 40 other tribes of their tribal...
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Counties say: ‘inconvenient truths’ lie in tribe’s past (3/8/2012)
(California) -- Napa and Sonoma counties are pushing back against a local Indian tribe’s attempt to kick them out of its lawsuit against the U.S. government...
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Trust Issues
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Arthur LaRose: Trust fund bill a threat to tribal sovereignty (4/24/2012)
(Minnesota) -- This year, Congress held two hearings on legislative proposals to distribute a 1999 federal court settlement of $20 million approved for damages inflicted...
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Native Voices
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NEWCOMB: On Indian Nationhood: Steven Newcomb Responds to Steve Russell’s March 20 Column (3/25/2012)
(California) -- After reading Steve Russell’s March 20the column “Citizenship and Nations,” I have to wonder why he would publicly challenge one of the...
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Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy of Native American ‘Tribe’ Raises Intriguing Legal Questions (3/15/2012)
(New York) -- The Western Mohegan Tribe & Nation of New York has filed for bankruptcy protection. Against the Native American community’s grip of sovereign...
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Fighting Sioux
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OP/ED: The sovereignty issue important (3/10/2012)
(North Dakota) -- In spite of all the ink spilled over the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux logo debate in recent weeks, I have seen little evidence that the...
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Federal Recognition
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Wappo tribe wants Napa, Sonoma counties out of its federal lawsuit (3/2/2012)
(California) -- Alexander Valley’s Wappo Indian tribe wants to remove Sonoma and Napa counties from its lawsuit seeking federal recognition, arguing the counties...
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Unpaid legal fees to force Ulster tribe off property (2/24/2012)
(Connecticut) -- It wasn’t forged documents, unpaid taxes or failed casino dreams that ultimately doomed the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation. The Greenfield Park...
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Wappo wants counties out of recognition suit (2/21/2012)
(California) -- A local Indian tribe wants to push Napa and Sonoma counties out of its lawsuit against the federal government, arguing they’re disrupting the suit...
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Eastern Pequot tribe fighting for recognition (2/6/2012)
(Connecticut) -- The chief executives of Ledyard, North Stonington and Preston are scheduled to meet next week with state Attorney General George Jepsen to discuss the...
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Sonoma County barred from appealing Wappo Indians' tribal effort (2/2/2012)
(California) -- Sonoma County can't appeal a federal court ruling that lets Alexander Valley's Wappo Indians move ahead with their bid to regain tribal status, a...
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Central Valley tribe wins federal recognition (1/4/2012)
(California) -- A Central Valley Indian tribe can establish a reservation and receive U.S. government benefits after winning federal recognition.
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Tejon tribe gains recognition, raising possibility of local casino (1/3/2012)
(California) -- The Tejon Indian tribe learned Tuesday it has gained federal recognition, which will mean big changes for members and that an Indian gaming casino is...
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Chinook Tribe ramps up new campaign for federal recognition (12/15/2011)
(Washington) -- For more than 150 years, the Chinook Indian Nation has struggled to obtain official recognition from the federal government. Exhausting many of their...
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Local Salinan Indian tribe applies for federal recognition (12/14/2011)
(California) -- Seeking to “recapture” its history and heritage, the local Salinan Indian tribe has applied for recognition from the federal government....
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Eastern Pequots ask for review of BIA's reversal of recognition (11/2/2011)
(Connecticut) -- Six years after the federal government rescinded its recognition of the tribe, the Eastern Pequots are asking the secretary of the U.S. Department of...
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Judge allows Wappos to continue quest to regain tribal status (10/25/2011)
(California) -- Alexander Valley’s Wappo Indians have won a victory in federal court, where a judge ruled Sonoma County can’t stop their bid to regain tribal status. The...
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Judge denies county’s request to dismiss Wappo claim (10/25/2011)
(California) -- A U.S. District Court judge has denied Napa County’s request to dismiss a local Indian tribe’s bid for federal recognition, a development tribal...
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Senate Committee Approves Webb Bill to Recognize Virginia Indian Tribes (8/1/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs today approved the “Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2011” (S. 379) on July...
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Local members of Congress weigh in on Wappo suit (5/24/2011)
(California) -- Lawmakers Mike Thompson and Lynn Woolsey have weighed in on an Alexander Valley-based Indian tribe’s request for federal recognition, backing Napa...
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Juaneños Plan Appeal of Federal Denial / Contentious history, specter of casino haunt tribe’s efforts (5/13/2011)
(California) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs calls its March 15 rejection of a federal recognition for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians a “Final Determination....
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State Recognition
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Abenaki tribes near state recognition (2/27/2012)
(Vermont) -- Two bands of the Abenaki Nation are nearing state recognition as Native American Indian tribes after a decades-long struggle. The tribes have met the...
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Spirit Lake Nation receives state recognition, celebrates past success (2/27/2012)
(North Dakota) -- It was a day of celebrating and thanks - in the Dakota language that’s “pidameya” or “thank you.” On Friday, Feb. 24 a...
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Maryland Recognition in Hand, Piscataway Leaders Split on Seeking Federal Status (1/15/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The heads of two Piscataway Indian groups recognized by the state of Maryland this week said they are unlikely to pursue federal recognition for now...
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Commentary: For the Piscataway, a long, troubled road to recognition (1/14/2012)
(Maryland) -- There's a long back-story to Maryland's official recognition of the Piscataway as a distinct tribe of Native American people, and it's not...
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Akaka Bill
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Federal Recognition for Native Hawaiians Could Come Via Interior Dept (1/9/2012)
(Hawaii) -- Frustrated with a 10-year congressional fight to obtain federal recognition and form a nation-within-a-nation government, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has...
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Native Hawaiian Recognition Suffers Latest Setback (12/23/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- Native Hawaiians who want to be federally recognized as sovereign entities, much like American Indian tribal citizens, have suffered another setback...
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Hawaiian Roll Call (12/8/2011)
(Hawaii) -- As Sen. Daniel Inouye struggles to keep the Akaka Bill afloat by slipping it into a spending measure drafted by his Appropriations Committee, the state is...
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Senator Akaka Staff Meet with Native Hawaiian Leaders (4/1/2011)
(Hawaii) -- The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement was able to share its five priorities with members of Senator Daniel Akaka’s staff recently. Akaka,...
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Online Legislation
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Sovereignty A Crucial Issue In Tribal Internet Debate [sub req'd] (1/9/2012)
(USA) -- Federal and state regulatory and taxation schemes for Internet wagering could further erode concepts crucial to the legal status of American Indian tribes as...
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Broken Arrow Casino
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Sunday: BA casino plan violates Creek law, gaming official says (12/31/2011)
(Oklahoma) -- The Kialegee Tribal Town’s plan to open a casino on a Creek Indian allotment in Broken Arrow is a violation of Muscogee (Creek) Nation law and its...
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Sheboygan Casino
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South Pier casino would face many hurdles (12/20/2011)
(Wisconsin) -- A northern Wisconsin Indian tribe looking to build an off-reservation casino in Sheboygan's South Pier District will first need to complete a complex...
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N.Y. Cigarettes
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Deep divisions seen in Unkechaug tribe (12/11/2011)
(New York) -- Current and former leaders of the Unkechaug Indian Nation are waging an explosive war of words in a barrage of recent court filings that expose deep...
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Payday Loans
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Payday Lending A Tribal/State Battle? (7/18/2011)
(USA) -- The squabbling over the connection between payday lenders and tribes has taken an interesting turn as it has now been framed as a tribal sovereignty/states...
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Carcieri Fix
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Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act and Carcieri fix approved by Senate Indian Affairs Committee (4/7/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- Two bills were approved today by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs: the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2011 (S. 675) and a...
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'Carcieri fix' bill author says he can't address RI concerns (7/28/2010)
(Washington D.C.) -- While reaffirming his support for legislation to clear the way for many Indian tribes to seek a federal trust status that could exempt lands from...
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Osage Land
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High court seeks brief in Okla tribe's lawsuit (2/23/2011)
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has invited the Acting Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the views of the United States as it decides whether to...
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Other News
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Feds want tribe's lawsuit dismissed (4/24/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Attorneys for the U.S. government have asked a judge to dismiss the Historic Eastern Pequot Tribe's bid to regain its short-lived federal...
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President Shelly Offers Statement of Sovereignty (4/23/2012)
(Arizona) -- Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly offered a statement about Navajo Nation Sovereignty Day observed today by the Navajo Nation.
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Connecticut AG not ready to act in Eastern Pequot suit (4/16/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen is not ready to act on a federal lawsuit by an Eastern Connecticut Native American tribe, although he said he...
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Tennessee Cherokee Tribe Denied Federal Recognition (3/28/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk announced yesterday that he has issued a final determination regarding the petition of the...
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Divided tribe files belated appeal of recognition reversal (3/25/2012)
(Connecticut) -- It was a long time coming, but the Historic Eastern Pequot Tribe has sued to overturn the government's 2005 withdrawal of the federal recognition it...
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Mohawk Tells Judge He Doesn't Recognize His Court Or State Law (2/27/2012)
(New York) -- A Mohawk traditionalist charged with digging up a capped toxic landfill near his Akwesasne Reservation home told a St. Lawrence County judge he did not...
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Law Students to Debate Hawaiian Recognition (2/24/2012)
(Hawaii) -- The William S. Richardson School of Law is host Friday and Saturday (Feb. 24 and 25) for the 20th Annual National Native American Law Students Association...
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Lumbee Leaders Renew Effort to Gain Recognition (2/19/2012)
(North Carolina) -- Leaders of the Lumbee Tribe are once again stepping up efforts to win full recognition from the federal government. The Robesonian of Lumberton...
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Battle over Wappo tribe's future (2/18/2012)
(California) -- The Mishewal Wappo Indians of Alexander Valley could be called Sonoma County’s lost tribe. They lost their land and their tribal status in 1959,...
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OP/ED: How the Wappo should have been treated (2/18/2012)
(California) -- I would offer that Napa County’s political position and diplomatic exploit toward the federal recognition of the Mishewal Wappo tribe is that of...
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Kissell reaffirms support for tribe (2/18/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Lumbee Tribal Chairman Paul Brooks met with Rep. Larry Kissell last week to discuss Lumbee tribal efforts to obtain full federal recognition.
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Letter: Column on Pequots, Foxwoods makes one wonder how many other tribes are legitimate (2/18/2012)
(Florida) -- Charles de Garmo's Feb. 3 column, "Pequots, politics and pluck, how a tiny tribe built an empire," was very interesting. Coming from the...
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Court blocks injury lawsuit against tribe / Sovereignty doctrine cited (2/14/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- A state appeals court Tuesday sided with the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe in a personal injury lawsuit, affirming a lower court that ruled the tribe cannot be...
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dERRICO: Canaries, Frogs and the National Congress of American Indians: What’s Realistic? (2/10/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Felix Cohen, author of the original Handbook of Federal Indian Law, played a major role in the Indian New Deal (aka, Indian Reorganization Act) to...
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Doug George-Kanentiio: Solving Canada's Indian 'problem' (2/9/2012)
(New York) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper deserves credit for meeting with aboriginal leaders on January 24 to discuss ways to resolve the many challenges which...
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Descendants of ex-slaves seek own Okla. tribe (2/9/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- The descendants of former slaves of Muscogee (Creek) Nation members have petitioned the U.S. government to be recognized as their own tribe - a move that...
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Column: Indian Gaming: The Lobbyists Always Win (2/9/2012)
(USA) -- One of the issues discussed in my new essay on the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is the lobbying by groups of American Indians seeking official tribal status.
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Eastern Pequots disavow lawsuit (2/8/2012)
(Connecticut) -- A lawsuit that seeks to revive a North Stonington-based Indian tribe's pursuit of federal recognition was filed without the tribe's say-so, or...
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BLOG: Senate Judiciary Committee Passes VAWA Reauthorization; Sen. Grassley Opposes Tribal Sovereignty (2/4/2012)
(Michigan) -- Strict party line vote. Sen. Grassley’s opposition to tribal sovereignty is reproduced here: I’ll turn now to some of the provisions that I...
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Native Sun News: Tribal health group wins immunity decision (1/31/2012)
(South Dakota) -- An off-reservation multi-tribal entity created primarily to improve the overall health status of members of regional Native American tribes through a...
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