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Shakopee to oppose tribe's land expansion
Shakopee will oppose the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's latest attempt to take more land off the tax rolls.  Land Issues4/20/2012
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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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