Jan 26, 2024 | News
On December 12, 2023, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) finalized new regulations for taking fee lands into trust. The Fee-to-Trust regulations implement a provision in the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) that allows the Secretary of the Interior to take lands...
Jan 26, 2024 | News
On December 6th and 7th, 2023, President Joe Biden held his administration’s third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C. The Summit was attended by hundreds of Tribal leaders from across the United States. President Biden addressed Tribal...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On October 5, 2023, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding tribal jurisdiction and refusing to expand U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Strate v. A-1 Contractors, 520 U.S. 438 (1997). In Strate, the Supreme Court ruled that a tribal court lacked civil...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On September 22, 2023, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), introduced S. 2908, the Indian Buffalo Management Act. The bill would establish a permanent program within the Department of the Interior to promote and develop the capacity of...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On October 30, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Klamath Irrigation District’s (KID) petition for certiorari of the Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al., case no. 22-1116. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On September 26, 2023, the Department of the Interior awarded a $3.7 million dollar grant to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition to create a permanent collection of oral histories from survivors of the federal Indian boarding school system....
Nov 28, 2023 | News
Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP is excited to announce two new additions to the team: Jane Gardner who joined the Louisville, Colorado office as a partner on October 16, 2023, and Juliette Jackson who joined the DC office as a Law Clerk on September 6,...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
For the third consecutive year, Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP earned a top tier ranking in the ‘Best Law Firms’ list for 2024. The firm received a Tier 1 ranking in the practice area of Native American Law for the Colorado region and a Tier 3 ranking...
Aug 23, 2023 | News
Ahead of August recess Congress made significant progress in July on the Interior Appropriations bill and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). All of these bills include important provisions and funding for Indian country. When Congress returns in...
Aug 23, 2023 | News
Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP (Native Law Group) proudly announces the inclusion of six (6) of its attorneys in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. This is the third consecutive year Native Law Group has been recognized in this highly...
