Michael Doran | December 3, 2020 | American Indian Law
Michael Doran of UVA Law has posted “The Equal-Protection Challenge to Federal Indian Law” (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs, vol. 6 (2020)) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:This article addresses a significant challenge to federal Indian law...
Aila Hoss | November 25, 2020 | American Indian Law
Aila Hoss of the University of Tulsa College of Law has posted “Indiana’s Indian Laws: Indigenous Erasure and Racism in the Land of the Indians” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:In response to a request for funding on Tribal and Indian law research, a director level...
Eric Williamson | November 18, 2020 | American Indian Law
A federal adoption law mandating that Native American children should be kept with Indian families whenever possible is under challenge by a white couple in Texas. They argue in Brackeen v. Bernhardt, a decision currently with the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,...
Lauren Klosinski | October 1, 2020 | American Indian Law
On September 30, 2020 The DOJ announced it had awarded more than $295.8 million in grants to serve Native communities. The following in a excerpt from the press release. The Department of Justice today announced it has awarded more than $295.8 million to improve...
Troy A. Eid | August 25, 2020 | American Indian Law
Media Coverage of McGirt: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’Confusion permeates the public arena as to what the U.S. Supreme Court recently did – and didn’t do – by ruling in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe, and against the state...