• All amici curiae strive to protect the governmental authority of federally recognized Indian tribes, including those in Alaska, and the unique trust responsibility owed them by the United States. (usetinc.org)
  • Congress allocated the funds at issue here to Tribal governments by cross-referencing an "Indian tribe" definition that precludes any entity other than a federally recognized Indian tribe from its practical application. (usetinc.org)
  • Amicus Curiae (NCAI, ATNI, CTCA, ITA of AZ, USET and additional federally recognized Tribal Nations) the Crow Tribe of Indians is a sovereign, federally recognized Indian Tribal Nation with more than 14,000 enrolled citizens, approximately 9,000 of whom reside on the Crow Indian Reservation in southern Montana. (usetinc.org)
  • The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes is a federally recognized sovereign nation located in southeast Idaho. (sbtribes.com)
  • United States brought action against states on behalf of Indian tribes to define treaty fishing rights. (narf.org)
  • Tribes lead the way for faster internet access in New Mexico Across sovereign governments, a group of Southwest tribes prepares to launch their own network. (sctdv.net)
  • The U.S. Constitution recognizes sovereign tribes as nations with the power to self-govern. (northdenvernews.com)
  • The administration has repeatedly denied requests from tribes - sovereign nations that oversee their own health care systems - that they be exempt from the Medicaid work requirement, which would force potential recipients of government health coverage to work or look for work. (hcn.org)
  • All three branches of the government have affirmed the sovereignty of tribes since the founding of the country. (hcn.org)
  • In an interview with Politico, Mary Smith, a member of the Cherokee Nation who was acting head of the Indian Health Service under the Obama administration, underlined the federal government's responsibility to uphold commitments made to the tribes it had once sought to destroy. (hcn.org)
  • The United States has a long-standing legal and moral obligation to protect and promote tribes' best interests, including through supporting tribal self-determination, respecting tribal sovereignty, and providing the resources necessary for cultural survival and economic development. (americanprogress.org)
  • 5 The Biden administration must take action to direct resources to support these efforts and enable tribes to execute a conservation vision of their choosing, both as a matter of tribal sovereignty and effectiveness for overall conservation. (americanprogress.org)
  • But the continuing need in Indian country for creative legal assistance to enable Indian tribes, as sovereign governments, to regain control over their resources and their destiny is equally evident. (encyclopedia.com)
  • During its history, NARF has represented more than 200 tribes in thirty-one states in such areas as tribal restoration and recognition, jurisdiction, land claims, water rights , hunting and fishing rights, the protection of Indian religious freedom, Indian child welfare, and voting rights. (encyclopedia.com)
  • An implicit oath of blood was made during the termination era of the 1950s, when the United States severed its government-to-government relationship, based on a legal trust relationship with American Indian tribes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • In the 1832 Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall 's opinion had carved out a special, separate constitutional status for Indian tribes. (encyclopedia.com)
  • They were recognized in their own right as sovereigns, a status that left the tribes with authority over their resources, economies, disputes, families, and values. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes are located on the Fort Hall Reservation in Southeastern Idaho, between the cities of Pocatello, American Falls, and Blackfoot. (sbtribes.com)
  • Currently, 97% of the Reservation lands are owned by the Tribes and individual Indian ownership. (sbtribes.com)
  • The Tribes inherent right to self-governance has been in place prior to the European arrival on the North American continent. (sbtribes.com)
  • TREATY WITH THE EASTERN BAND SHOSHONI AND BANNOCK, 1868Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory,on the third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, by and between the undersigned commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs and head-men of and representing the Shoshone (eastern band)and Bannock tribes of Indians. (sbtribes.com)
  • The council was established under the tribes' Constitution·& Bylaws , which was approved by the tribes and ratified by the federal government in 1937 under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. (sbtribes.com)
  • In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) to rectify the historic wrongs that the U.S. government has committed against Indigenous tribes, namely the forced removal of Indigenous children from their tribes with the intent to whitewash them and systemically eradicate Indigenous communities. (americanbar.org)
  • WASHINGTON - As a threat to tribal sovereignty, the Trump administration is attempting to strip American Indians and Alaska Natives from health care. (sctdv.net)
  • First, all public lands that the U.S. government owns and manages were stolen from Native Americans and Alaska Natives, often through violence, genocide, and forced removal. (americanprogress.org)
  • Learn more about our strategic engagement in litigation to defend the inherent sovereign rights and authorities of Tribal Nations in the courts. (usetinc.org)
  • Yes, tribal nations are sovereign, but the U.S. still has obligations for their wellbeing. (hcn.org)
  • Several states are seeking to force the requirement on tribal health care systems that have always operated within their sovereign nations. (hcn.org)
  • Even with Medicaid, citizens of sovereign tribal nations still face more challenges accessing health care than the average American. (hcn.org)
  • In a larger sense, the most persistent aspects of federal Indian policy since the mid-nineteenth-century-the assimilation of Indians, reduction of the Indian land and resource base, and the phasing out of tribal governments-had to be stopped and reversed. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Notably, the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States and the Crow Tribe, executed on May 7, 1868, 15 Stat. 649 ("1868 Treaty"), established the terms of agreement between the two sovereigns and significantly reduced the Tribe's land-base. (usetinc.org)
  • Tribal officers' abilities to make on-the-spot decisions to protect Tribal members and non-Indians, to stem the flow of illegal drugs and contra-band, and to uphold the 1868 Treaty obligations are of fundamental importance to the Crow Tribe. (usetinc.org)
  • Generation after generation, tribal elders passed down information about the talks at treaty time and about the fact that American law, at least in Marshall's time, had been faithful to those talks. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The following year, on July 3, 1868, the tribal leadership signed the Fort Bridger Treaty, which affirmed that the newly established Fort Hall Indian Reservation would become the permanent home for the Shoshone and Bannock people. (sbtribes.com)
  • Since the 1880s, the forced assimilation of Indigenous children into white America has been a formal project of the U.S. government. (americanbar.org)
  • 8 After forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and communities, the schools followed the canon of assimilation employed by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, who founded the first federal boarding school for Indigenous children: "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man. (americanbar.org)
  • In 2001, Smith submitted his application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs ("BIA") for approval to gift transfer one-third of his 3/38 undivided interest to Miami Tribe. (narf.org)
  • 7 This project began when the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) established many boarding schools specifically intended for the whitewashing of Indigenous children. (americanbar.org)
  • Shannon O'Loughlin, the CEO and a lawyer for the Association on American Indian Affairs , said that according to long-standing federal law, tribal sovereignty takes precedence over state law on matters related to protecting the health and welfare of tribal citizens. (northdenvernews.com)
  • Linda Yardley from Taos Pueblo had one answer at a field hearing of the Native American Voting Rights Coalition Friday. (sctdv.net)
  • This case is really about the state of Montana attempting to assert its jurisdiction within the Blackfeet Nation's territory," said Mark Carter, a staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, a nonprofit that represents the tribe. (northdenvernews.com)
  • Since its founding in 1970, the presence of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in Indian country in the United States has become very evident. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Most of the long time African American and Native American residents of the county trace their heritage to ancestors who worked in the gold extraction industry. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Only small Native American canoes could have traversed some sections of these two rivers. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Not knowing either Cherokee or Itsate Creek, or that the Itsate Creeks occupied the entire region at one time, early Caucasian settlers passed down inaccurate interpretations of Native American words. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • Oklahoma is a state with a predominantly white population but also houses a significant Native American population. (nyujournalismprojects.org)
  • While Native Americans only make about 9% of the total population in Oklahoma, 7,645 per 100,000 cases of Covid-19 come from the Native American community and 61 out of 100,000 deaths are from the community as well. (nyujournalismprojects.org)
  • We can see the evolution taking place in cities like Gainesville, Florida, and small towns like Paintsville, Kentucky, and in many more communities across America that are demonstrating how to improve the safety and success of our children and families. (casey.org)
  • Water protectors join hands in prayer at Standing Rock during an ongoing protest over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Cannon Ball, North Dakota, November 2016. (americanprogress.org)
  • USET SPF's amicus curiae brief supports the Seneca Nation of Indians in their claims against the state of New York that federal law was violated in 1954 when the state acquired an easement for a 300-acre parcel of the Nation's restricted fee lands. (usetinc.org)
  • Myers' complaint exposed a new conflict: whether the state can enforce the law on the Blackfeet reservation over the tribe's right to administer its own rules to protect the health of its people as a sovereign nation within the borders of the United States. (northdenvernews.com)
  • Underlying their tales, she says, is the dramatic assertion that depression is the natural condition of "real Indians" - those who have "disciplined" their hearts by recasting their personal sadness into compassion for others.This rich account of family and community life describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. (cdlib.org)
  • Fishing rights -- Wenatchi Indians -- Icicle Creek (Wash. (narf.org)
  • In its efforts to protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030, the federal government has an obligation to acknowledge tribal sovereignty and support Indigenous-led conservation. (americanprogress.org)
  • 4 According to studies completed by the Association of American Indian Affairs in 1969 and 1974, "approximately 25-35 [percent] of all Indian children [were] separated from their families and placed in foster homes, adoptive homes, or institutions. (americanbar.org)
  • 11 The Indian Adoption Project, which "promote[d] adoption of Native children from sixteen western states by white adoptive families in the East," 12 was put into effect by the Child Welfare League of America and was active from 1958 to 1967. (americanbar.org)
  • 16 Furthermore, when Indigenous custom conflicted with the white American conceptualization of childrearing, the Indigenous parents and families were deemed unfit to raise their children. (americanbar.org)
  • Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation v. Enbridge Energy Company, Inc., et al. (usetinc.org)
  • and (5) combating racism directly in such matters as voting practices, environmental degradation of Indian lands and resources, and bias in the judicial system. (encyclopedia.com)
  • 17 For example, the practice of communal childrearing or the involvement of extended family in caring for a child, which is common in many Indigenous cultures, was seen from a Euro-American viewpoint as being neglectful and sometimes prompted a child's removal on the grounds that their biological parents had abandoned them. (americanbar.org)
  • Fishing -- Off Indian reservations -- Washington (State). (narf.org)
  • could be swing vote in 32 congressional races Mark Trahant Indian Country Today KANSAS CITY - Native Americans are underrepresented in nearly every state and in the federal offices, according to a new analysis by Amber Ebarb of the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center. (sctdv.net)
  • The Reservation spans nearly 3,500 square miles, encompasses parts of several counties and borders the City of Billings, the State of Wyoming, and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. (usetinc.org)
  • He was state Indian commissioner when the Creeks ceded tracts of land that eventually became much of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area and Cherokees ceded a tract of land that included the future territory of Lumpkin County. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • It was not through choice that modern Indian people have placed so much reliance on federal law. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Outside forces were bent on obtaining Indian land, water, fish, and tax revenues, and on assimilating the culture of Indian people, especially the children. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This astonishingly widespread concern propelled the author into the complex lives of these modern American Indian people and into the historical roots of their contemporary situation.In Disciplined Hearts, O'Nell draws on recent anthropological theory to locate Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. (cdlib.org)
  • Every child in America deserves a Community of Hope. (casey.org)
  • Officially Medicaid represents 13 percent of the Indian Health Service's $6.1 billion budget (just under $800 million)," writes Mark Trahant , editor-in-chief of Indian Country Today . (hcn.org)
  • Tribal sovereignty is the power to govern themselves, determine their own membership, and the power over a distinct geographic land base. (sbtribes.com)
  • Indian Country News is a weekly note from High Country News, as we continue to broaden our coverage of tribal affairs across the West. (hcn.org)
  • Sovereignty -- Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation, Arizona. (narf.org)
  • J.R. Myers' frustration grew as he read the email: To attend a local economic development council meeting in Browning - the largest community on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana - he had to bring proof he was vaccinated against covid-19. (northdenvernews.com)
  • What is alarming though is that despite having a disadvantage in healthcare, Native Americans are usually left missing or undercounted in data. (nyujournalismprojects.org)
  • Based on her ethnographic and clinical work, O'Nell pinpoints American Indian depression within a complex interplay of cultural ideas of the self and the Indian family, emotion and ethnic identity, and historical relations between Indians and whites. (cdlib.org)
  • Reducing or eliminating any of those funds could leave thousands of Native Americans with even less health care options. (hcn.org)
  • Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. (cdlib.org)
  • According to data from the Covid Tracking Project (CTP) , Native Americans have been disproportionately affected by Covid-19 both in the number of cases and deaths in Oklahoma. (nyujournalismprojects.org)
  • 13 Following the Indian Adoption Project was the Adoption Resource Exchange of North America, which was established in 1966 as "the first national adoption resource exchange devoted to finding homes for hard-to-place children. (americanbar.org)
  • As the country braced for a second wave of COVID-19 cases, the rates at which Indian American and Alaskan Natives were being impacted became alarming. (nyujournalismprojects.org)
  • This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. (cdlib.org)
  • Modern Indian law and policy began to come to life in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when a consensus was reached among tribal leaders, young Indian professionals, and traditionalists. (encyclopedia.com)
  • According to O'Nell, Flathead narratives of depression are tales in which narrators use their demoralization as a guide for modern Indian life. (cdlib.org)
  • By Tony Connor, Director of Marketing, Public Interest Registry As a part of our reoccurring #ORGinAction series - which spotlights organisations who trust the .org domain to support their communication efforts - we are happy to introduce you to the Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA) who was also this year's #ORGinAction social contest winner! (sctdv.net)
  • He describes Yurok Indian spirituality as "a significant field in which individual and society meet in dialogue - cooperating, resisting, negotiating, changing each other in manifold ways. (cdlib.org)
  • Give the preponderance of Itsate place names in the North Georgia Mountains, either Itsate word is a more plausible interpretation. (accessgenealogy.com)
  • These superficially unrelated stirrings were tightly and irrevocably bound together by an indelible reverence for the aboriginal past, an appreciation of the consequences of five centuries of contact with Europeans, and by desperation concerning the future of Indian societies as discrete units within the larger society. (encyclopedia.com)