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Professor Grijalva quoted: Native lands lack clean water protections, but more tribes are taking charge

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Oct 17, 2023 | 5:00 am ET By Alex Brown Across the roughly 1,300 square miles of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota, tribal members harvest wild rice in waters that have sustained them for generations. They’ve been working for decades to restore sturgeon, a culturally important fish, and they harvest minnows and leeches […]

Grand Forks Herald: Indigenous students recognize Orange Shirt Day on the UND campus

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Orange Shirt Day is a national remembrance of the Indigenous children who died and suffered at residential boarding schools during the 19th and 20th centuries. By Maeve Hushman October 03, 2023 at 1:00 PM GRAND FORKS — Countless Indigenous children died after being forcibly sent to residential boarding schools in the United States and Canada in […]

Professor Dan Lewerenz serves as expert back reader for NPR’s Throughline

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A Tale of Two Tribal Nations Episode Description The word “reservation” implies “reserved” – as in, this land is reserved for Native Americans. But most reservation land actually isn’t owned by tribes. Instead, it’s checkerboarded into private farmland, federal forests, summer camps, even resorts. That’s true for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in northern […]

Professor Kathryn Rand was a recent guest on an episode of the podcast Native American Calling

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Tribes on offense over sports betting July 26, 2023 Listen The Seminole Tribe is poised to have exclusive control of mobile sports betting in Florida just as the NFL season gets started. Their potential windfall is part of a $5 billion compact with the state that — for now — is holding up against court […]

‘It’s a good day in Indian Country and it’s a good day for the rule of law’: Professor Dan Lewerenz responds to SCOTUS upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act

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The economic impact of SCOTUS upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act Marketplace Savannah Maher Listen Indian Country breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday morning when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA. That 1978 federal law gives tribal nations a voice in custody proceedings involving Native children and aims to […]

BJ Jones, Director of the Tribal Judicial Institute is quoted: Native American Families Are Being Broken Up in Spite of a Law Meant to Keep Children With Their Parents

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After fighting to win back her parental rights, a young Native American mother prevailed. Then the state came for her second child. Cheyenne Hinojosa with her younger daughter, who was taken by child welfare workers shortly after being born ProPublica by Jessica Lussenhop and Agnel Philip, photography by Jaida Grey Eagle for ProPublicaJune 15, 6 a.m. EDT ProPublica is a nonprofit […]

Professor Lewerenz quoted as an expert in commentary about the Brackeen v. Haaland case awaiting a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court

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The fate of the Indian Child Welfare Act When it comes to children, should tribes govern themselves? DeseretNews By Mya Jaradat May 16, 2023, 12:16pm CDT Not long after Jennifer and Chad Brackeen felt called by God to become foster parents, they got a call of another kind: this one from Texas’s Child Protective Services, saying […]

At UND Law, ‘A Conversation about Wrongs, Rights and Repatriation’

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Expert panelists visit UND to discuss repatriation and federal law UND Today | Adam Kurtz On Tuesday, April 11, dozens of UND students, faculty and staff members packed a third-floor lecture bowl in the School of Law to gain a better understanding of repatriation, a process deeply affecting UND. It’s been more than a year […]

Professor Lewerenz is quoted: LOCALIZE IT: States seek safeguards for tribal child welfare

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Via AP news wire Tuesday 07 February 2023 A handful of U.S. states are considering legislation this year to include provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act in state law as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether the federal law is constitutional. At least 10 states already have done so. The act requires states to […]

Professor Grijalva presents at Northern Arizona University Native American Cultural Center

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Northern Arizona University’s Native American Cultural Center and the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals invited Professor Grijalva to Flagstaff, Arizona for one of their many events for Native American month. Professor Grijalva discussed several regional examples of environmental injustice affecting indigenous peoples: allocation of shrinking Colorado River water without consideration of senior Indian tribal water […]