Updates from the University of North Dakota School of Law.
Walter Echo-Hawk is one of the foremost experts in Indian law and is a distinguished author, tribal judge, law professor, and member of the Pawnee Nation. Echo-Hawk presented, “Challenges for Federal Indian Law Practitioners in the Decade Ahead”, to a full crowd in the UND School of Law VandeWalle Courtrom on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. […]
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Haley Omeasoo is working to create the first DNA database of Blackfeet Nation members By: Mark Roth – UM News Service Posted at 5:21 PM, Apr 06, 2024 MISSOULA — Haley Omeasoo was already studying forensic science at the University of Montana when she saw the poster that redefined her life. The 2017 poster announced that her […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]