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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 [...]
Army still threatens Medicine Bluff By Wilhelm Murg The Comanche Nation and the U.S. Army have been battling over a proposed training/service center for the Fort Sill complex that was to be built on Medicine Bluff, a sacred site of not just the Comanche, but also the Kiowas, the Wichitas and the Apaches. Last year, [...]
indian Country Gets $32 Million for Public Transportation ProjectsOne hundred transit projects on tribal lands will share in $32 million in Public Transportation on indian Reservations funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration, according to a press release issued by the DOT. The $32 million, of which $17 million will come from [...]
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, [...]
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