Dec 20, 2022 | Insights
President Joe Biden, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, and other cabinet secretaries and federal officials stood alongside tribal leaders to announce new policies and initiatives to strengthen the nation-to-nation relationship between the United States and Indian...
Dec 20, 2022 | Insights
On December 5, 2022, Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Congressman Derek Kilmer (WA) introduced the Honoring Promises to Native Nations Act in Congress. Warren and then-Congresswoman Deb Haaland originally released the legislation in 2019 as a draft bill. In the years...
Dec 20, 2022 | Insights
On November 29, 2022, Congress passed the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act of 2021, and the bill is on its way to being signed into law by President Biden. The Act intends to prevent the international export of cultural items prohibited from...
Nov 29, 2022 | Insights
Contributors: Frances C. Bassett, Partner The United States Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case that could threaten the more than 100-year-old “Winters” doctrine, which upholds and protects Indian water rights. In Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564...
Nov 29, 2022 | Insights
On November 9, 2022, the United States Supreme Court heard a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in the Haaland v. Brackeen case. The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of ICWA, its validity under the Indian Commerce Clause, and claims that...
Nov 29, 2022 | Insights
By Donald Walton, Associate Attorney On October 7, 2022, the Department of the Interior https://nativelawgroup.com/haaland-secretarial-order-to-restore-american-bison-and-prairie-grasslands/and other federal departments announced a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to...
