From the GR Press:
LANSING — Legislative opponents of a Wayland Township casino may be ready to fold their cards after last week’s federal appeals court ruling in favor of the Gun Lake tribe.
Republicans who control the state Senate will meet this week to discuss whether to continue their block on a gaming compact between the [...]
From the Senate Indian Affairs Committee website:
THE HONORABLE PHILIP HOGEN
Chairman, National Indian Gaming Commission
Washington, DC 20005
THE HONORABLE DELIA CARLYLE
Chairwoman, Arizona Indian Gaming Association Ak Chin Tribe
THE HONORABLE J.R. MATHEWS
Board Member and Vice-Chairman Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma
Quapaw, OK
Accompanied by: MARK VAN NORMAN, Executive Director, National Indian Gaming Association, Washington, DC
MR. BRIAN PATTERSON
President, [...]
The March/April 2008 issue of the Federal Lawyer featured several articles on Indian law.
Zeke Fletcher on the legacy of Martinez, Wheeler, and Oliphant: trappedinthespringof1978
Casey Douma on the Indian Civil Rights Act: 40thanniversaryoficra
Mike McBride and Susan Huntsman on tribal labor relations: organizedlaborstrategiesforindiangaming
Goodman and Maxfield on the NIGC’s gaming management contracting: isthatyourfinalanswergoodmanmaxfield
Matthew Fletcher on the Supreme Court [...]
From the Detroit Free Press:
WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee is set to work on a couple of bills on Wednesday that would allow for two new Indian casinos in Michigan - even though another committee has already approved them.
It could set up an interesting jurisdictional question for the House.
A couple months ago, the Natural [...]
From The Hill:
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) is clashing with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.) over the thorny issue of Indian gambling, setting up a standoff between two of the oldest bulls in Congress.
Conyers has stepped into an Indian gambling dispute that is dividing the Michigan delegation and the Democratic Caucus. After [...]
From the AP:
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — An American Indian tribe says bills pending in the Legislature to regulate high-volume water withdrawals would violate its rights by reducing fish populations in some rivers and streams.
Officials with other northern Michigan tribes also are raising concerns about the measures, pending in the House and Senate. The two [...]
Thanks to Bill Rastetter.
GTB Letter to House
GTB Letter to Senate
Panel 1
THE HONORABLE DIANE ENOS
President, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Scottsdale, AZ
THE HONORABLE JOE SHIRLEY JR.
President, The Navajo Nation
Window Rock, AZ
THE HONORABLE DANIEL EDDY
Chairman, Colorado River Indian Tribes
Parker, AZ
From the House Judiciary Committee website:
The Honorable Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
U.S. House of Representatives
Michigan, 13th District
Chief Fred Cantu
Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan
My working paper, “Tribal Courts, the Indian Civil Rights Act, and Customary Law: Preliminary Data,” has been posted on SSRN. Chi-miigwetch to Alicia Ivory for all her hard work in helping with the research (you can see her contributions in the lengthy appendices at the end of the paper).
Here’s the abstract:
This study is an [...]
