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A lack of employment and labor relations laws on Indian reservations has made tribes too vulnerable to exploitation by unions and leaves too many gaps for federal agencies to fill, according to a column written by Kaighn Smith Jr., a partner at the law firm Drummond, Woodsum, and MacMahon, and published in Indian Country Today [...]
By John D. McKinnon Buried in the billions of dollars of spending on new weapons and other items in the 2010 defense appropriations bill is a little-noticed expression of regret over how the U.S. had in the past used its power. The bill contains an “apology to Native Peoples of the United States.” The multi-year [...]
The U.S. government has settled a long-running lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians. The Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe members to compensate them for historical accounting claims, and to resolve future claims. The department also will spend $2 billion to buy back and consolidate tribal land lost by [...]
IRS Auctions Tribe’s Land to Pay Back TaxesAn Internal Revenue Service auction to sell 7,100 acres of South Dakota land owned by the Crow Creek Sioux to help pay more than $3 million in back taxes could not be stopped, despite a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Pierre by the tribe on Monday, [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal by a group of native american activists that claims that the Washington Redskins’ team name is “offensive, disparaging, and demeaning and perpetrates a centuries-old stereotype,” USA Today reported this morning. The team started using the Redskins name in 1933; and the trademark was first issued in [...]
By Kathy Helms President Obama signed Senate Bill 39 into law, permanently rescinding the “Bennett Freeze” and ending more than 40 years of restrictions for Navajo Nation residents living on 1.6 million acres in the western portion of the Navajo Nation. The freeze, which was imposed July 8, 1966, by then-Department of the Interior Secretary [...]
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