Oct 28, 2022 | Insights
The White House announced that it will hold the 2022 White House Tribal Nations Summit on November 30th and December 1st, 2022 at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Registrations are due by Monday, November 14, 2022. The White House states that each...
Oct 28, 2022 | Insights
Erin Shanley, Contributing Attorney The U.S. Department of Treasury extended the deadline for Tribal Governments to complete their submissions for the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund (LATCF) from October 31, 2022, to January 31, 2023. Under the Local...
Oct 28, 2022 | Insights
On October 4, 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that South Dakota could tax a nonmember contractor doing construction work on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s casino. The Court held that the state tax was not preempted by the Indian Gaming...
Oct 28, 2022 | Insights
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes a new provision that allows tribes to utilize renewable energy tax credits to finance and develop renewable energy projects. The provision solves a long-standing problem that tribal governments face in renewable energy...
Oct 28, 2022 | Insights
On August 18, 2022, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released its “2022-2026 FEMA National Tribal Strategy.” The impetus for a National Tribal Strategy can be traced back to the enactment of the Recovery Improvement Act of 2013, which gave Tribes the...
Sep 29, 2022 | Insights
On September 13, 2022, three agencies within the Department of the Interior released new guidance intended to improve federal land stewardship by strengthening the role on Indian tribes in federal land management. The agencies include the Bureau of Land Management...
