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US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a tribal reservation in southern Arizona after he threw something and abruptly raised his arm. The Thursday night death of Raymond Mattia is under investigation by the FBI and Tohono O’odham Nation. A statement Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection says tribal police had asked Border Patrol agents for help in responding to a report of shots fired near the home of a man in a tribal community near the U.S.-Mexico border. The statement says three Border Patrol agents opened fire after encountering a man who threw some kind of object and “abruptly extended” his arm.
·apnews.com·
US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
This tribe’s land was cut in two by US borders. Its fight for access could help dozens of others
This tribe’s land was cut in two by US borders. Its fight for access could help dozens of others
The Pascua Yaqui Tribe has drafted regulations in an effort to formalize the border-crossing process for their relatives in Mexico coming to their reservation in Arizona. Like dozens of Native American nations across the U.S., the Pascua Yaqui Tribe was sliced in two by modern-day international borders. When deer dancers and musicians living in Sonora, Mexico, make the trip into the U.S. for ceremonies, they may be detained or have their cultural objects confiscated. The effort is part of their work with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council. DHS did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the status of the regulations.
·apnews.com·
This tribe’s land was cut in two by US borders. Its fight for access could help dozens of others
9th Circ. Rejects Tribe's Skagit River Fishing Rights Bid - Law360
9th Circ. Rejects Tribe's Skagit River Fishing Rights Bid - Law360
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday said the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe's usual and accustomed fishing grounds don't include the Skagit River, a win for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe in a fishing rights suit involving a Washington state river that supports important populations of wild salmon.
·law360.com·
9th Circ. Rejects Tribe's Skagit River Fishing Rights Bid - Law360
Tucson is giving a stretch of ancestral land back to the Tohono O'odham Nation
Tucson is giving a stretch of ancestral land back to the Tohono O'odham Nation
The city of Tucson is returning a portion of ancestral land to the Tohono O’odham Nation in a new resolution unanimously passed by the City Council this week. The nearly 11-acre stretch of land is located at the base of Sentinel Peak, a more than 2,000 foot peak southwest of what is today downtown Tucson. The Santa Cruz river runs right next to one side of the mountain's base and the Tohono O’odham’s Hohokam ancestors have farmed and lived there for more than 4,500 years.Mayor Regina Romero calls it the birthplace of Tucson.
·fronterasdesk.org·
Tucson is giving a stretch of ancestral land back to the Tohono O'odham Nation
Tribe warns US government against moving ahead with mine
Tribe warns US government against moving ahead with mine
PHOENIX (AP) — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will publish an environmental …
·krqe.com·
Tribe warns US government against moving ahead with mine
Gila River Indian Community receives $233M in water conservation, infrastructure funding
Gila River Indian Community receives $233M in water conservation, infrastructure funding
The Gila River Indian Community will receive up to $233 million in funding for conservation agreements that will help the tribe and other water users along the Colorado River Basin protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System.
·azmirror.com·
Gila River Indian Community receives $233M in water conservation, infrastructure funding
Idaho Tribes Score Partial Win In DOI Land Swap Suit - Law360
Idaho Tribes Score Partial Win In DOI Land Swap Suit - Law360
An Idaho federal judge granted a partial win to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in their challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, saying the agency violated a 1900 federal law that limits the disposal of treaty-ceded lands.
·law360.com·
Idaho Tribes Score Partial Win In DOI Land Swap Suit - Law360
Navajo Times
Navajo Times
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·navajotimes.com·
Navajo Times
Indian Lives Matter | Stanford Law Review
Indian Lives Matter | Stanford Law Review
American Indian people know all too well the impact of pandemics on human populations, having barely survived smallpox outbreaks and other diseases tr
·stanfordlawreview.org·
Indian Lives Matter | Stanford Law Review
The impact of COVID-19 on Native American communities
The impact of COVID-19 on Native American communities
Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.
·news.harvard.edu·
The impact of COVID-19 on Native American communities
Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas mountains
Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas mountains
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he is establishing national monuments on more than half a million acres in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary in U.S. waters near the Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii.
·apnews.com·
Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas mountains
Denver donates 35 bison to Native American tribes
Denver donates 35 bison to Native American tribes
The transfers marked another example of Indigenous people reclaiming stewardship over the land and animals that their ancestors managed for thousands of years.
·npr.org·
Denver donates 35 bison to Native American tribes
Supreme Court rulings undermine Indian law
Supreme Court rulings undermine Indian law
Indian law is a framework for making decisions about Indigenous sovereignty and peoples, but recent Supreme Court rulings create new debates despite centuries of precedents
·prismreports.org·
Supreme Court rulings undermine Indian law
Judge Restores Oil Lease on Land Sacred to US, Canada Tribes
Judge Restores Oil Lease on Land Sacred to US, Canada Tribes
A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to reinstate a drilling lease that has been in dispute for decades on land near the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
·usnews.com·
Judge Restores Oil Lease on Land Sacred to US, Canada Tribes
Who Is Native American Enough?
Who Is Native American Enough?
A groundbreaking free-tuition program has administrators determining who qualifies. It’s harder than it looks.
·chronicle.com·
Who Is Native American Enough?
State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights
State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights
PEACH SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) — Garnett Querta slips on his work gloves as he shifts the big rig he’s driving into park. Within seconds, he unrolls a fire hose and opens a hydrant, sending water flowing into one of the plastic tanks on the truck’s flat bed.
·apnews.com·
State of unease: Colorado basin tribes without water rights