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More than 800 tribal leaders and finance professional in Indian Country are in the nation’s capital for NAFOA’s 41st annual conference.
SCOTUSblog: A ‘simple’ Indian law case before the U.S. Supreme Court (April 24, 2023)
The case is one of the simplest the justices will hear this year, because it involves no constitutional questions and, in truth, only the interpretation of a single phrase of a single statutory provision. 
Efforts to strengthen the Indian Arts and Crafts Act are drawing widespread attention as tribes seek a major — and controversial — change to a law designed to protect Native artists from frauds.
Forty years of federal recognition and the Narragansett people are still fighting for what’s rightfully ours.
Native America Calling: Assessing McGirt v. Oklahoma (April 12, 2023)
After removal from their home and an arduous and deadly forced march, the Muscogee Nation arrived in Oklahoma with little more than a promise that they could revive and rebuild. 
The Catholic Church formally repudiated a religious doctrine that was used to justify the theft of lands from indigenous peoples in North America.
Tribal leaders are calling on the Biden administration to re-examine its commitment to the nation-to-nation relationship following “shocking” arguments in a closely-watched U.S. Supreme Court case.
The highest court in the land is once again taking up a case that will determine whether the United States lives up to its promises to tribal nations.
San Manuel Band donates $600,000 to Native American Rights Fund (February 13, 2023)
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is donating $600,000 over two years to support the Tribal Supreme Court Project. 
U.S. Supreme Court adds more Indian Country cases to docket (January 24, 2023)
Indian Country is gearing up for another round of big cases at the nation’s highest court, with water rights and tribal sovereignty on the line. 
‘Empower tribal nations’: Indian Country looks to White House for support (December 14, 2022)
With one negative ruling on the books and a potentially devastating one on the way, tribal leaders continue to look to the Biden administration to address the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court. 
Harold Frazier: Nation-to-nation policy must be law of the land (November 30, 2022)
Native Sovereign Nations are prior sovereigns, embodying the inalienable and inherent rights of Native Peoples bestowed by our Creator. 
Albert Bender: Genocide of Indian nations at the U.S. Supreme Court (November 28, 2022)
A case before the United States Supreme Court could resume the genocide of tribal nations. 
The Cherokee Nation is getting closer to fulfilling a promise made by treaty nearly two centuries ago.
AUDIO: U.S. Supreme Court hearing in Haaland v. Brackeen (November 10, 2022)
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Haaland v. Brackeen, a closely-watched Indian Child Welfare Act case, on November 9, 2022. 
VIDEO: Tribal leaders speak at #StopColonizers rally at U.S. Supreme Court (November 10, 2022)
Tribal leaders speak at a #StopColonizers rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on November 9, 2022. 
Native America Calling: The fate of ICWA (November 10, 2022)
The decision in Haaland v. Brackeen will be a major force in the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the scope of tribal sovereignty. 
Mother Jones: Right-wing groups take ICWA to nation’s highest court (November 8, 2022)
The Indian Child Welfare Act set out to fix generations of harm to Native kids. The U.S. Supreme Court could soon toss it aside. 
Indian Country rallies as U.S. Supreme Court hears ICWA challenge (November 3, 2022)
Indian Country will be out in force as the nation’s highest court weighs the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act. 
Indian Country braces for U.S. Supreme Court hearing in ICWA case (November 1, 2022)
The nation’s highest court is about to hear one of the biggest cases in Indian Country’s history and already some troubling signs are emerging. 
The Supreme Court is an anachronistic body of elderly politicians, who can never be expected to do justice by Native Sovereign Nations.
PolitiFact: Republican candidate tells tall tale about tribal governments (October 26, 2022)
Republican Arizona Corporation Commission candidate Nick Myers claims financial assistance to tribal nations is “foreign aid.” PolitiFact checks the facts. 
Underscore.news: Yakama Nation celebrates return of sacred land (October 18, 2022)
An 1855 treaty with the U.S. government ensured one of the Yakama Nation’s most important sites would remain part of its homelands. 
A prominent tribe with powerful connections has taken the unusual step of denouncing an educator and scholar who has long identified herself as a descendant of the community.
Markwayne Mullin is poised to make history as the first tribal citizen in the U.S. Senate in nearly two decades but not all Native voters are happy.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds an oversight hearing entitled “Examining Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta: The Implications of the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Tribal Sovereignty.”
Cronkite News: U.S. Supreme Court ruling a ‘real threat’ to tribal sovereignty (September 21, 2022)
A decision from the nation’s highest court opens tribal lands to state jurisdiction — even though tribes have not consented to the imposition. 
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a hearing to examine the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court on tribal sovereignty.
Biden administration hosts listening sessions on U.S. Supreme Court decision (September 15, 2022)
The Biden administration is hosting two listening sessions to hear from tribes about a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision. 
National Congress of American Indians announces Sovereignty Run (September 14, 2022)
“We are in a critical time where, once again, our sovereignty is being threatened,” National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp said in announcing the 2022 Sovereignty Run. 
The largest inter-tribal advocacy organization in the United States is forging ahead with a new executive as tribes continue to confront challenges to their sovereignty.
Harold Frazier: Honor sacred promises to our Native Sovereign Nations (September 13, 2022)
Mni Wiconi means water is life, and no one will silence our Native peoples. 
Albert Bender: Anti-Indian sovereignty from the nation’s highest court (September 8, 2022)
Tribal nations must be prepared to combat this judicial onslaught—and any more to come—from the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative anti-Native agenda. 
Apache Stronghold heads back to court to protect sacred Oak Flat (September 6, 2022)
The fight to protect a sacred site from development is once again back in court as defenders of Oak Flat try to stop a huge copper mine on Apache territory. 
Mother Jones: ‘We’ve been under these genocidal policies for 500 years’ (August 15, 2022)
Federal and state abortion restrictions have been interfering with tribal sovereignty for years. 
Cronkite News: Fight over copper mine at sacred Apache site continues (August 15, 2022)
A long-running political, legal and environmental dispute over a copper mine on sacred Apache land in Arizona shows no signs of ending anytime soon. 
Montana Free Press: Film explores ‘Lost Bird’ who found her way home (August 4, 2022)
A new documentary applies a wide-angle lens to a personal story of adoption and assimilation of an Indian child. 
Since tribes are sovereign nations, with their own laws, could they offer abortion services on their lands within states that may soon outlaw abortion?
As the retrograde Supreme Court has taken steps back in time, it has struck a reactionary blow against the tribal sovereignty of this land’s Indigenous nations.
The legacy of colonialism continues to exist in 2022 through this most recent action by the U.S. Supreme Court to deny Native — and all — women the right to body sovereignty.
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