A 1974 ruling lists where the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe can fish, but the tribe now says the broad language of the decision means it has access to a larger swath of fishing waters.
The Ute Indian Tribe argued that it had compensable title over 1.5 million of its total 1.9 million acres in northeastern Utah because the federal government never sold the land.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Court of Appeals found a lower court improperly denied a criminal defendant’s motion to dismiss his cannabis possession charge. Because Minnesota has decriminalized the possession of cannabis and authorized tribal compacts allowing tribal governments to regulate cannabis, it does not have jurisdiction to prosecute an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe for possession on his own reservation under a regulatory statute.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court allowed a recognize tribe to challenge a decision by the Minnesota Racing Commission to allow a horse racetrack to add new electronic table games. The court was evenly decided on the merits of the case, so the court of appeals’ conclusion is upheld: The games in question are not “video games of chance,” so they are legal in Minnesota law.
Alaska Native corporations are challenging whether others can keep over $100 million in carbon credit revenue without sharing it under a decades-old settlement agreement.
A lower court essentially evicted the Enel Group and ordered the removal of 84 turbines after finding it failed to secure a mineral lease with the Osage Nation.
Legal challenges over federal subsistence rights in Alaska have been ongoing since the 1980s.
The plaintiffs say new Supreme Court precedent revives old religious freedom claims.
Lawmakers sought, with a law passed after the Supreme Court's first ruling, to entrench the policy through a constitutional amendment.
Two cases before Canada’s Supreme Court raise the novel question of whether competing claims made by different Indigenous Nations for the same land should be considered separately or litigated all together in a single proceeding.
Native Americans make up only 0.7% of Congress, and only 0.5% of practicing lawyers and judges, despite accounting for more than 2% of the population.
