In a vote this afternoon HR 2176–which was the Bay Mills bill and was amended in the nature of a substitute earlier in the day to include the text from HR 4115, the Sault Tribe bill–was defeated 121-298.
The 40 page opinion is available here:
Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle
Additional materials regarding the case can be found at here.
We’ll post the opinion as soon as it’s available.
From SCOTUS blog:
The Court has released the opinion in Plains Commerce v. Long Family Land and Cattle (07-411), on whether Indian tribal courts have authority to decide civil lawsuits involving business dealings between companies owned by members of the tribe and banks that own land on a [...]
From The Hill:
Pelosi to grant vote on Indian gaming bill benefiting Rep. Dingell’s district
By Susan Crabtree
Posted: 06/24/08 07:08 PM [ET]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is giving Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) a full House vote Wednesday on a nettlesome Indian gaming bill he’s been pushing for years as a surefire way to help out his cash-strapped [...]
From ICT:
‘Trickster’ - a Native anthology of tales in graphic novel form
Posted: June 25, 2008 by: Robert Schmidt / Pechanga.net
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Images courtesy Matt Dembicki
”Trickster” is a graphic novel-style anthology of Native trickster tales created primarily by Native writers and artists. In a Q&A interview conducted by e-mail, writer/artist Matt Dembicki shared the inside story [...]
From the Freep:
Tribal land plan is fair deal for all of state
June 25, 2008
With Michigan’s unemployment rate continuing to lead the nation, we are disappointed that a congressman from Detroit opposes legislation that would create more than 6,000 good union jobs for his city, county and state (”No special deals for tribal casinos,” June 24).Even [...]
From the Bay City Times:
Saganing Members Aim to Teach Indian Culture at Standish Powwow
by Helen Lounsbury
STANDISH - When tribal drummers, singers and dancers take their places this weekend for the Saganing powwow near Standish, don’t think of the event as a first.
It’s a homecoming - a celebration of origins for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian [...]
No, not that David Archuleta, though it takes some investigating among all of the American Idol flotsam to find news about this David Archuleta, a Shoshone-Bannock tribal citizen who is running for the Democratic nomination in the Idaho Senate race.
FORT HALL, Idaho - David J. Archuleta, Shoshone-Bannock, has entered the race for the U.S. Senate. [...]
Registration for the ILPC’s 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act, is now available online here.
NPR’s Morning Edition is running a two-part piece on boarding schools.
For the government, it was a possible solution to the so-called Indian problem. For the tens of thousands of Indians who went to boarding schools, it’s largely remembered as a time of abuse and desecration of culture.
The government still operates a handful of off-reservation boarding [...]
