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In addition to the order, the USDA announced a partnership to help restore and expand tribal bison.
The Biden administration will be allocating more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change, the Department of the Interior announced Thursday. The funding is ...
In March 2023 a Houlton Maliseet returned to the legislature, along with three other tribes; the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation, and the Mi'kmaq Nation. [9] Starting in November 2023, the HBMI began the process of creating a Healing to Wellness Court, a restorative justice effort to reduce a repeat of criminal behavior and to engage the ...
The Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations implements the land consolidation component of the Cobell v. Salazar Settlement, which provided $1.9 billion to purchase fractional interests in trust or restricted land from willing sellers at fair market value. Consolidated interests are immediately restored to tribal trust ownership for uses ...
In July 2023, the council voted 56–38 to approve a ballot measure introduced by councilmember Teresa McCoy for the tribe's September 7 general election, intended to legalize recreational cannabis. [10] [11] While nonbinding, the Tribal Council has indicated that they will respect the vote and implement the changes approved by the voters. [12]
The 771-page report also calls on Colorado State University to return 19,000 acres of land that was taken from several tribal nations through the Morrill Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 ...
When an Indian nation files suit against a state in U.S. court, they do so with the approval of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In the modern legal era, the courts and Congress have, however, further refined the often competing jurisdictions of tribal nations, states and the United States in regard to Indian law. In the 1978 case of Oliphant v.
The Cherokee Nation tribal council (officially: Council of the Cherokee Nation; [1] Cherokee: ᏗᏂᎧᎾᏩᏗᏙᎯ ᎠᏂᏯᎥᎢ, romanized: dinikahnawadidohi aniyavvi) is the legislative branch of the Cherokee Nation. One councilor is elected to represent each of the 15 districts of the Cherokee Nation in the 14 county tribal ...