Mar 29, 2023 | Insights
On Monday, March 20, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States heard arguments in a case threatening the ability of Indian tribes to protect and enforce their water rights. Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Navajo Nation can pursue its...
Mar 29, 2023 | Insights
By Logan Big Eagle, Contributing Attorney On March 3, 2023, Deb Haaland issued Secretarial Order No. 3410 on the “Restoration of American Bison and the Prairie Grasslands.” The purpose of the Order is “to enhance the Department of the Interior’s work to restore wild...
Jan 27, 2023 | Insights
On December 5, 2022, the Department of the Interior (Interior) published in the federal register a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the fee-to-trust regulations at 25 C.F.R. Part 151. The federal register notice is available here. Interior is proposing the...
Dec 20, 2022 | Insights
On November 30th and December 1st, 2022, President Joe Biden and Secretary Deb Haaland held the administration’s second White House Tribal Nations Summit. After hosting a virtual summit in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 White House Tribal Nations...
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...
