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Anti-gambling group protests Sycuan plan
A San Diego nonprofit group that tries to boost public awareness of problem gambling said this week it opposes plans to expand the Sycuan Indian Reservation.  Land Issues5/16/2013
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Congress Advances Utah Land Bill
(Utah) -- Congress is advancing a swap of mineral rights between Utah and the Ute Indians that opens up more land for oil and gas drilling. Congressman Rob Bishop says...
5/6/2013
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Ottawa threatening to shut down land claim negotiations, says grand chief from Mohawk community at heart of Oka Crisis
(Ottawa) -- The grand chief for the Mohawk community at the heart of the Oka crisis says Ottawa’s lead negotiator threatened to shut down land claim negotiations...
5/1/2013
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Return to the land: Cow Creek Band works to buy ranch
(Oregon) -- The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians is hoping to close the purchase of a 1,700-acre cattle ranch at the base of the Table Rocks that it intends to...
4/27/2013
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City of Duluth, Fond du Lac Band continue to spar over Carter Hotel
(Minnesota) -- The latest round involves a dispute over whether the city can force the band to replace the severely compromised roof of the abandoned downtown Duluth...
4/20/2013
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How the Colvilles kept their reservation
(Washington) -- Fifty years ago this October, a congressional subcommittee on Indian affairs held a series of hearings across Washington state on a bill to dissolve the...
4/18/2013
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Pinal County Board of Supervisors Supports San Carlos Apache Tribe New Gaming Facility
(Arizona) -- On April 10, 2013, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a "Resolution of Support for the San Carlos Apache Tribe casino to be...
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House Expected To Re-Pass Bill Giving Pascua Yaqui Tribe Golf Course Land; Entire Arizona Delegation Co-Sponsors
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to today pass a bill giving the Pascua Yaqui Tribe 20 acres of land to help complete the golf course...
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Ravalli County votes against BIA purchase of 60 acres near Darby
(Montana) -- The Ravalli County Commission voted Thursday to oppose an application for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to acquire about 60 acres south of Darby.
4/10/2013
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Tribe working to put 370 acres in trust
(Idaho) -- Six waterfront parcels owned by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe are due to be put into its trust, a move that would lift county and state oversight and allow the...
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Tribe working to put land into reservation trust
(Idaho) -- The Coeur d’Alene Tribe is working to place roughly 370 acres of land it owns on the reservation back into its reservation trust.
4/9/2013
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Alaska tribes win land trust suit against Secretary of Interior
(Washington D.C.) -- A Washington, D.C. district court has found that the Secretary of Interior has the authority to take land into trust for Alaska tribes. Advocates...
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Tribe seeks to put land into reservation trust
(Idaho) -- The Coeur d'Alene Tribe is working to place roughly 370 acres of land it owns on the reservation back into its reservation trust.
4/8/2013
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Court Decision Has Big Implications For Tribal Lands
(Washington D.C.) -- A D.C. district court decision quietly released on Easter Sunday, has huge implications for Alaska tribal and state lands jurisdiction. The court...
4/2/2013
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Court Says Feds Can Take Land Into Trust For Alaska Native Tribes
(Alaska) -- A decision this week from the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia has big implications for Alaska tribes. In the case of Akiachak Native...
3/20/2013
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Tribal chairman: Land transfer will benefit timber counties
(Oregon) -- The chairman of the Confederated Tribes said its proposed acquisition of more than 14,000 acres of federal timberlands will ultimately benefit Oregon timber...
3/19/2013
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County opposes tribe's application to put 29 acres into trust
(California) -- The County of San Diego has gone on record in opposition to the San Pasqual Tribe's application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to put 29 acres into...
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Oregon senators seek return of ancestral land to local tribes
(Oregon) -- A discussion draft of proposed legislation that would restore approximately 14,804 acres of land to the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and...
3/13/2013
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Bill addressing reservation land introduced in Congress
(Oregon) -- A bill to streamline the process of incorporating tribal-owned land into the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde reservation was introduced in both the U.S....
3/8/2013
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Manitoba Métis Win Historic Land Claims Case Against Canada
(Ottawa) -- Métis people in Canada are jubilant after the Supreme Court of Canada resolved a legal land battle that was 143 years in the making, the second historic...
3/6/2013
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County seeks more talks with Ho-Chunk / Committee gets cold shoulder from Stockbridge-Munsee
(Wisconsin) -- Shawano County's relationship with the Ho-Chunk Tribe is showing signs of recovery, but its relationship with the Stockbridge-Munsee seems to be on...
1/11/2013
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Eight first nations come to agreement with Ottawa on land rights
(Ottawa) -- Faced with chiefs demanding a “fundamental transformation” of its relationship with Ottawa, the federal government announced the latest update to...
1/3/2013
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Tribes Eye BLM Placitas Land
(New Mexico) -- An impending revision to the Bureau of Land Management’s plan for a broad swath of central New Mexico may provide the opportunity for local tribes...
12/31/2012
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Schaghticoke Tribal Nation Continues Land Rights Struggle
(Connecticut) -- The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation has asked the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to review a lower court decision to dismiss the nation’s land rights...
12/19/2012
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Land claim vote expected next year
(Ottawa) -- Trappers, cottage owners and others with rights to land use will have input during negotiations into one of the province's oldest native land claims...
12/17/2012
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Quapaw Tribe Returns to Arkansas in Land Deal
(Arkansas) -- Did you know the Quapaw Tribe of Indians returned to Arkansas and bought a small piece of its former homeland? The Quapaw purchased an 80-acre tract south...
12/12/2012
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Senate passes Bridgeport land-into-trust, Pascua Yaqui bills
(Arizona) -- The Senate approved two Indian bills by unanimous consent on Tuesday. H.R.2467 places approximately 39.36 acres in trust for the Bridgeport Indian Colony of...
12/11/2012
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Navajo Nation and State of New Mexico finalize land exchange
(New Mexico) -- Officials with the Navajo Nation and State of New Mexico have successfully completed a land exchange that will boost economic development, employment...
12/10/2012
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DOI announces regulations for leasing approval process on Native land
(Washington D.C.) -- On Nov. 27, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn announced final regulations that will...
12/2/2012
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Feds streamline leasing rules to ease development on tribal lands
(Washington D.C.) -- The Interior Department unveiled a streamlined process last week for approving leases on tribal lands that federal officials hope will spur...
11/28/2012
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DOI Finalizes Regulations For Renewable Energy Development On Tribal Lands
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has finalized regulations designed to streamline the leasing process for development on tribal lands,...
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Feds streamline leasing rules, hope to ease development on tribal lands
(Washington D.C.) -- The Interior Department unveiled a streamlined process Tuesday for approving leases on tribal lands that federal officials hope will spur...
11/26/2012
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Dakotas tribes settle claims with fed government
(South Dakota) -- Four tribes in the Dakotas that claimed tribal money and trust lands were mismanaged have received more than $100 million through settlements with the...
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Quileute 'Twilight' Tribe Deals With Rising Sea Levels That Threaten Way of Life
(Washington) -- Located west of Olympic National Park, La Push, Wash., is idyllic at first glance. But the beauty of the place is matched by danger and vulnerability....
11/16/2012
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Land-and-cash deal with First Nation seen as treaty precursor
(British Columbia) -- The British Columbia government and a Vancouver Island First Nation signed a business and land deal Friday that is being celebrated as a way to...
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Onondaga Nation Files En Banc Petition in Land Rights Case
(New York) -- The Onondaga Nation has asked a federal appeals court for an en banc—or full panel—review of a decision by a three-judge panel that who...
10/22/2012
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Legacy funds might help Fond du Lac Band buy land
(Minnesota) -- A dispute may be resolved soon over using Legacy Amendment tax dollars help a tribe buy land on its own reservation.
10/17/2012
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A Tussle Over Sacred Land
(New Mexico) -- Native Americans in northwest New Mexico and Arizona see Mount Taylor as a sacred place where they can still connect with ancestors. Local ranchers view...
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Onondaga Asks 2nd Circuit to Send Land Rights Lawsuit to Trial
(New York) -- A New York State attorney opposing the Onondaga Nation’s land rights lawsuit told the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that the Nation would have to...
10/10/2012
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Candlelight vigil held in Clinton Square to support Onondaga Nation's land rights case
(New York) -- Community members attended a candlelight vigil Wednesday night in Clinton Square in Syracuse to show support for the Onondaga Nation as nation leaders...
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ALJAZEERA: Rights without reservation
(Washington D.C.) -- Has the US government done enough to reconcile injustices committed against Native American tribes? We'll ask James Anaya, the UN Special...
10/3/2012
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Miami economic development incentive given go ahead /Ottawa Tribe's trust land request stalled
(Oklahoma) -- Miami City Manager Jeff Bishop said his goal is to increase the bonding capacity of the City of Miami. A resolution was passed providing specific economic...
10/2/2012
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Miami-Dade fights for Miccosukee golf course land in West Kendall
(Florida) -- Under a new designation, the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club in Kendale Lakes would fall under the tribe’s land trust — which means the...
9/26/2012
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20 years on, First Nations reflect on historic land deal
(Saskatchewan) -- It's been 20 years since a landmark agreement was signed to settle outstanding treaty land claims in Saskatchewan. The $600-million deal was...
9/25/2012
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Tribal land considered for trust at special Miami City Council meeting
(Oklahoma) -- A special meeting of the Miami City Council took place Friday, Sept. 21 to take care of some time sensitive business.
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Acoma and CDEC’s Right-of-Way Impasse
(New Mexico) -- Pueblo of Acoma Governor, Randall Vicente, expressed disappointment in the inability of the Pueblo and Continental Divide Electric Cooperative, Inc. (...
9/24/2012
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Tribes gain greater leasing autonomy / New process speeds lease approval
(New Mexico) -- A new federal law may help homeowners and small businesses to more easily lease tribal lands on the Navajo Nation and other American Indian reservations.
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Navajo Nation ranchers wary of Grazing Act fees
(New Mexico) -- Ranchers are gathering in all corners of the Navajo Nation to learn about the potential passage of the Navajo Grazing Act, which could include some...
9/18/2012
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Navajo president signs deed to put Turquoise Ranch into Navajo trust
(Arizona) -- Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly signed documents to put 373 acres near Winslow, Ariz. into Navajo trust at a signing ceremony Monday morning.
8/30/2012
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Atikamekw First Nation blockades may continue
(Quebec) -- It’s zero hour for leaders in the Atikamekw First Nation. Last month, chiefs in three impoverished Atikamekw communities gave the provincial government...
8/16/2012
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Navajo, Zuni tribes trying to come to an agreement on parceling of Fort Wingate land
(Arizona) -- After 15 years of struggling to come to an agreement on a fair distribution of thousands of acres of land at Fort Wingate Army Depot, the Navajo Nation and...
8/15/2012
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Native Americans speak out to preserve sites
(New Mexico) -- Tribal leaders on spoke out about the protection of their sacred sites to the Department of the Interior on Monday. The department kicked off a series of...
8/14/2012
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Navajo Human Rights Officials Assert Federal Relocation Policies Fail Miserably
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission(NNHRC) asserts that the federal plan to relocate over 12,000 people within ten years simply unrealistic in the...
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Sacred Native Site of Pe’Sla Threatened
(South Dakota) -- The sale is perfectly “legal,” but is it morally, ethically, and spiritually correct? In a race against the clock, the Sioux Nation is...
8/1/2012
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Tribes want trust status for Figure Four Ranch
(North Dakota) -- The Three Affiliated Tribes have owned the historic Figure Four Ranch in the Badlands for more than a decade and they’re now asking that the land...
7/25/2012
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Commissioners weigh in on tribal disputes
(Washington) -- The Yamhill county commissioners have agreed to support a congressional bid by the coastal Siletz Tribe to establish a streamlined process for taking...
7/18/2012
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Tribes may soon approve own land leases
(Washington D.C.) -- A bill giving Native American tribes authority over agreements to lease their lands for development awaits the president's signature.
6/28/2012
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County wants right to comment on tribal fee-to-trust applications
(California) -- The San Diego County Board of Supervisors took a position supporting the right of public agencies to make comments or take positions on proposals to add...
6/27/2012
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State senator tables legislation on tribal fee-to-trust
(California) -- One of the state senators who helped introduce a bill that would effectively muzzle state agencies from opposing tribal fee-to-trust transfers has pulled...
6/15/2012
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Senator wants mitts off tribal proposals
(California) -- Sen. Joel Anderson wants state agencies to stop impeding tribal proposals to annex land, citing the Attorney General’s protest against a pending...
6/6/2012
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County, tribe relationship on the rocks
(Wisconsin) -- The Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe is uncertain what future relations with Shawano County will be, as a Tribal Affairs Committee meeting this week showed.
4/20/2012
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Casino Lawsuits Threaten Indian Land Process [sub req'd]
(Washington D.C.) -- Two federal lawsuits involving American Indian casinos threaten to make it more difficult for tribal governments to acquire and place in trust...
4/8/2012
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8th Circuit backs Yankton Sioux land-into-trust application
(South Dakota) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs can acquire 39 acres in trust for the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today.
3/14/2012
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Mohegan Tribe Takes 35 Acres into Trust
(Connecticut) -- The Bureau of Indian affairs has approved a request for 35.22 acres of Montville land to be taken into trust by the Mohegan Tribe. Annexation of the...
3/8/2012
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Echo Hawk points to big increase in land-into-trust approval
(Washington D.C.) -- The Obama administration has put the land-into-trust process back on track, Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk told the National Congress of...
2/28/2012
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Onondaga Nation leaders visit Washington with historic treasure, wampum belt from George Washington
(Washington D.C.) -- When the leaders of the Onondaga Nation traveled here today to file an appeal of their rejected land rights claim, they brought along a special...
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Onondaga Nation seeks public's support in land claim fight
(Washington D.C.) -- When the Onondaga Nation files an appeal of its land claim today in Washington, D.C., there is little hope of winning its case, it concedes.
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Tribe Asks Americans to Be Mindful of Stolen Lands
(Washington D.C.) -- Citizens of the Onondaga Nation traveled to the nation’s capital today to raise awareness of their long trampled on land rights.
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Fort Peck tribes OK $75 million settlement in lawsuit against Interior
(Montana) -- The United States government will pay the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes $75 million in a settlement agreement that resolves claims against the...
2/27/2012
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Onondaga Nation Brings George Washington's Wampum Belt to Washington D.C.
(Washington D.C.) -- On February 28, 2012, Onondaga Nation and other Haudenosaunee leaders will bring to Washington D.C. the wampum belt U.S. President George Washington...
2/24/2012
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Onondaga Nation leaders to bring wampum belt to Washington D.C.
(New York) -- Leaders from the Onondaga Nation will travel to Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to file a formal appeal to their land claim, which was dismissed in court in...
1/24/2012
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Shakopee to oppose tribe's land expansion
(Minnesota) -- Shakopee will oppose the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's latest attempt to take more land off the tax rolls.
1/13/2012
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Anti-gambling group protests Sycuan plan
(California) -- A San Diego nonprofit group that tries to boost public awareness of problem gambling said this week it opposes plans to expand the Sycuan Indian...
12/4/2011
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Bureau of Indian Affairs proposes new regulations for surface leases of Indian trust lands
(Washington D.C.) -- On November 29, 2011, the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) proposed a new set of surface leasing regulations for Federal...
11/26/2011
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Tribe wants to take 520 acres into its reservation
(California) -- The Rincon Band of Mission Indians plans to increase the size of its Valley Center reservation by about 520 acres, according to documents filed with the...
11/18/2011
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BIA considering UKB trust application
(Oklahoma) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs is considering placing land into trust for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians for gaming purposes, but Cherokee...
11/17/2011
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Planners concerned over tribal trust lands
(California) -- With over 12,882 acres of land in San Diego County held in, or in process of being conveyed into federal tribal trusts by area Indian tribes, local...
11/5/2011
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Editorial: City would best be served with Schmitt
(Minnesota) -- In a nutshell, Mayor John Schmitt and his opponent in next Tuesday’s city election, Brad Tabke, agree that Shakopee is doing basically well. Tabke,...
10/18/2011
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ARTMAN: Response to “Second Casino Plan Should Also Die”
(California) -- Dear Sir:
I recently read an editorial in the Contra Costa Times (California) regarding the fee-to-trust application of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo...
10/12/2011
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Tribe requests more land for trust status
(Minnesota) -- The Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community is asking the federal government to place an additional 124 acres of tribal-owned lands into trust, but the...
10/11/2011
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Rules committee passes land-into-trust act
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee Nation Rules Committee on Monday unanimously passed an act requiring a two-thirds vote of the council before approving foreign Native American...
9/28/2011
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No word from Supreme Court on Oneida Nation land claim appeal
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has considered two petitions in the long-running Oneida Nation land claim but the justices haven't said whether they will...
9/27/2011
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Obama administration delays action on Wyandotte Nation casino
(Kansas) -- The Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma will have to wait even longer for a decision on its off-reservation, lawyers for the Obama administration said on Monday....
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Sycuan Indians Want More Land
(California) -- The Sycuan Band of Kumeyaay Indians wants to expand their reservation, but county supervisor Dianne Jacob says she is against the idea which would put...
8/26/2011
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Developer: No Reservations About Goal
(Georgia) -- Background: A proposal by developer Joe McDonald exploded into a community debate in March when his idea of creating a reservation for an American Indian...
8/25/2011
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BIA Takes Land into Trust for Osage Casinos
(Oklahoma) -- The Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs has taken land into trust on three parcels where the Osage Nation operates casinos.
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OP/ED: Osages win / Casinos get trust 'protection'
(Oklahoma) -- Leaders of the Osage Nation must have breathed a sigh of relief this week when they received confirmation that their applications to put the sites of three...
8/24/2011
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Bureau of Indian Affairs, Osage Nation sign documents placing tribe's casinos in federal trust
(Oklahoma) -- The federal government has approved the Osage Nation's request to place in federal trust the lands on which the tribe has three casinos.
8/23/2011
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Osage Nation’s applications to place casino sites in trust approved
(Oklahoma) -- The Osage Nation’s applications to put the sites of three casinos into trust status has been approved by the U.S. Department of Interior.
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