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Legacy In Paradise: Analyzing The Obama Administration’S Efforts Of Reconciliation With Native Hawaiians, Troy J.H. Andrade Mar 2017

Legacy In Paradise: Analyzing The Obama Administration’S Efforts Of Reconciliation With Native Hawaiians, Troy J.H. Andrade

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article analyzes President Barack Obama’s legacy for an indigenous people—nearly 125 years in the making—and how that legacy is now in considerable jeopardy with the election of Donald J. Trump. This Article is the first to specifically critique the hallmark of Obama’s reconciliatory legacy for Native Hawaiians: an administrative rule that establishes a process in which the United States would reestablish a government-to-government relationship with Native Hawaiians, the only indigenous people in America without a path toward federal recognition. In the Article, Obama’s rule—an attempt to provide Native Hawaiians with recognition and greater control over their own affairs to …

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“Why Should I Go Vote Without Understanding What I Am Going To Vote For?” The Impact Of First Generation Voting Barriers On Alaska Natives, James Thomas Tucker, Natalie A. Landreth, Erin Dougherty Lynch Mar 2017

“Why Should I Go Vote Without Understanding What I Am Going To Vote For?” The Impact Of First Generation Voting Barriers On Alaska Natives, James Thomas Tucker, Natalie A. Landreth, Erin Dougherty Lynch

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This article explores the many forms of discrimination that have persisted in Alaska, the resulting first generation voting barriers faced by Alaska Native voters, and the two contested lawsuits it took to attain a measure of equality for those voters in four regions of Alaska: Nick v. Bethel and Toyukak v. Treadwell. In the end, the court’s decision in Toyukak came down to a comparison of just two pieces of evidence: (1) the Official Election Pamphlet that English-speaking voters received that was often more than 100 pages long; and (2) the single sheet of paper that Alaska Native language …

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Indian Treaty Fishing Rights And The Environment: Affirming The Right To Habitat Protection And Restoration, Michael C. Blumm Mar 2017

Indian Treaty Fishing Rights And The Environment: Affirming The Right To Habitat Protection And Restoration, Michael C. Blumm

Washington Law Review

In 1970, several tribes in the Pacific Northwest, along with their federal trustee, sued the state of Washington claiming that numerous state actions violated their treaty rights, which assured them “the right of taking fish in common with” white settlers. The tribes and their federal trustee maintained that the treaties of the 1850s guaranteed the tribes: (1) a share of fish harvests for subsistence, cultural, and commercial purposes; (2) inclusion of hatchery fish in that harvest share; and (3) protection of the habitat necessary for the salmon that were the basis of the treaty bargain and the peaceful white settlement …

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Valuing Sacred Tribal Waters Within Prior Appropriation, Michelle Bryan Mar 2017

Valuing Sacred Tribal Waters Within Prior Appropriation, Michelle Bryan

Natural Resources Journal

Throughout the world water plays a central role in the spirituality of indigenous peoples. Focusing on the American West, this article first describes how tribal water needs touch upon the sacred and then explains how both federal law and state prior appropriation doctrine fail to adequately protect these important sacred views of water. Pivoting away from the classic federal law arguments, the article then advocates for an evolution in state water law regimes to provide yet unrecognized protections for tribal sacred waters. Because international law plays an increasing role in this issue, the article also explores case studies from Ireland, …

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Pueblo Indian Water Rights: Charting The Unknown, Richard W. Hughes Mar 2017

Pueblo Indian Water Rights: Charting The Unknown, Richard W. Hughes

Natural Resources Journal

This article examines the so-far-unsuccessful efforts to judicially define and quantify the water rights appurtenant to the core land holdings of the 19 New Mexico Pueblos, many of whose lands straddle the Rio Grande. It explains that the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has squarely held that Pueblo water rights are governed by federal, not state law, and are prior to those of any non-Indian appropriator, but also that the Tenth Circuit acknowledged that it could not say how those rights should be characterized. Part I of the article examines the course of the cases that have sought to achieve …

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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe V. U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, Jody D. Lowenstein Feb 2017

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe V. U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, Jody D. Lowenstein

Public Land & Resources Law Review

The Standing Rock Sioux’s effort to enjoin the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permitting of an oil pipeline was stifled by the United States District Court of the District of Columbia. In denying the preliminary injunction, the court held that the Tribe failed to show that the Corps violated the National Historic Preservation Act, and that the Tribe’s belated effort to litigate was futile after failing to participate in the consultation process.

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Waiting For Gluskabe: An Examination Of Maine's Colonialist Legacy Suffered By Native American Tribes Under The Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act Of 1980, Joseph G.E. Gousse Feb 2017

Waiting For Gluskabe: An Examination Of Maine's Colonialist Legacy Suffered By Native American Tribes Under The Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act Of 1980, Joseph G.E. Gousse

Maine Law Review

Legends of the Wabanaki people tell of a mythical demigod named Gluskabe. Immortalized through the cultural traditions of the Wabanaki—from the Mi’kmaq, Abenaki, and Passamaquoddy to the Maliseet and the Penobscot—Gluskabe appears as an integral component of each tribe’s variation of the Creation Myth, as well as numerous other tales and stories. Most prominently, Gluskabe is known for his role in creating the Penobscot River and divining proportion and harmony in the natural world, using his power to reduce the size of the once-giant land animals to establish the first village, legend holds that Gluskabe retired to the southernmost portion …

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Complexity's Shadow: American Indian Property, Sovereignty, And The Future, Jessica A. Shoemaker Feb 2017

Complexity's Shadow: American Indian Property, Sovereignty, And The Future, Jessica A. Shoemaker

Michigan Law Review

This Article offers a new perspective on the challenges of the modern American Indian land tenure system. While some property theorists have renewed focus on isolated aspects of Indian land tenure, including the historic inequities of colonial takings of Indian lands, this Article argues that the complexity of today’s federally imposed reservation property system does much of the same colonizing work that historic Indian land policies—from allotment to removal to termination—did overtly. But now, these inequities are largely overshadowed by the daunting complexity of the whole land tenure structure. This Article introduces a new taxonomy of complexity in American Indian …

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Why The Religious Freedom Restoration Act Cannot Protect Sacred Sites, Timothy A. Wiseman Jan 2017

Why The Religious Freedom Restoration Act Cannot Protect Sacred Sites, Timothy A. Wiseman

American Indian Law Journal

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Assessing Political Economy In Native American Nations, W. Gregory Guedel Ph.D, Jd Jan 2017

Assessing Political Economy In Native American Nations, W. Gregory Guedel Ph.D, Jd

American Indian Law Journal

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A Legal Practitioner's Guide To Indian And Tribal Law Research, Kelly Kunsch Jan 2017

A Legal Practitioner's Guide To Indian And Tribal Law Research, Kelly Kunsch

American Indian Law Journal

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Money Is For Nothing: The Inherent Want Of Consideration Found In Substantial Exclusivity Terms Within Tribal-State Compacts, Paul C. Alexander Ii Jan 2017

Money Is For Nothing: The Inherent Want Of Consideration Found In Substantial Exclusivity Terms Within Tribal-State Compacts, Paul C. Alexander Ii

American Indian Law Journal

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A Silent Epidemic: Revisiting The 2013 Reauthorization Of The Violence Against Women Act To Better Protect American Indian Native Women, Rory Flay Jan 2017

A Silent Epidemic: Revisiting The 2013 Reauthorization Of The Violence Against Women Act To Better Protect American Indian Native Women, Rory Flay

American Indian Law Journal

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Complex Adaptive Peacemaking: How Systems Theory Reveals Advantages Of Traditional Tribal Dispute Resolution, Juliana E. Okulski Jan 2017

Complex Adaptive Peacemaking: How Systems Theory Reveals Advantages Of Traditional Tribal Dispute Resolution, Juliana E. Okulski

American Indian Law Journal

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Akiachak Native Community V. United States Department Of Interior, Lillian M. Alvernaz Jan 2017

Akiachak Native Community V. United States Department Of Interior, Lillian M. Alvernaz

Public Land & Resources Law Review

Alaska Native Tribes have long been classified differently than the federally recognized Indian tribes in the rest of the country. The Akiachak decision contributes to the shifting treatment of Alaska Native Tribes and clarifies their relationship with the federal government. The ability to put land into trust is essential to the protection of generations to come and the exercise of sovereign authority. By enabling Alaska Native tribes the ability to petition to put tribally owned fee land in trust, the DOI promotes and encourages tribal self-governance and empowerment.

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The Native American Struggle Between Economic Growth And Cultural, Religious, And Environmental Protection: A Corporate Solution, Joseph Patterson Jan 2017

The Native American Struggle Between Economic Growth And Cultural, Religious, And Environmental Protection: A Corporate Solution, Joseph Patterson

Notre Dame Law Review Reflection

This Essay recommends a flexible corporate solution to Native American property rights issues.

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Trust Or Bust: Complications With Tribal Trust Obligations And Environmental Sovereignty, Nadia B. Ahmad Jan 2017

Trust Or Bust: Complications With Tribal Trust Obligations And Environmental Sovereignty, Nadia B. Ahmad

Faculty Scholarship

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Pueblo Indian Water Rights: Charting The Unknown, Richard W. Hughes Jan 2017

Pueblo Indian Water Rights: Charting The Unknown, Richard W. Hughes

Publications

This article examines the so-far-unsuccessful efforts to judicially define and quantify the water rights appurtenant to the core land holdings of the 19 New Mexico Pueblos, many of whose lands straddle the Rio Grande. It explains that the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has squarely held that Pueblo water rights are governed by federal, not state law, and are prior to those of any non-Indian appropriator, but also that the Tenth Circuit acknowledged that it could not say how those rights should be characterized. Part I of the article examines the course of the cases that have sought to achieve …

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The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act: Do Indian Tribes Finally Hold A Trump Card?, Vicki J. Limas Jan 2017

The Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act: Do Indian Tribes Finally Hold A Trump Card?, Vicki J. Limas

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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The Traffic Of Native American Women, Nasrin M. Chaudhry Jan 2017

The Traffic Of Native American Women, Nasrin M. Chaudhry

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

No abstract available.

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The Process Of Reclaiming Tribal Sovereignty Through Healthcare Autonomy, Karolina A. Serhan Jan 2017

The Process Of Reclaiming Tribal Sovereignty Through Healthcare Autonomy, Karolina A. Serhan

Honors Theses

This honors thesis explores the complex interplay between health status, healthcare, and tribal sovereignty among native communities in the United States. These relationships are explored through analyzing the paradoxical and condescending nature of the Federal Trust Responsibility in relation to government-organized healthcare programs for natives. In establishing this relationship, the thesis goes on to illustrate how native communities have effectively fought to regain sovereignty through reclaiming autonomy of their healthcare systems through the use of the 1975 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. The impact of tribal-led healthcare systems is further explored through an in-depth case study conducted regarding the …

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The Global Protection Of Traditional Knowledge: Searching For The Minimum Consensus, 17 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 42 (2017), Aman Gebru Jan 2017

The Global Protection Of Traditional Knowledge: Searching For The Minimum Consensus, 17 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 42 (2017), Aman Gebru

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

The protection of traditional knowledge (TK) – the know-how, skills, innovations and practices of indigenous peoples and local communities has been a subject of heated debate in many international forums. TK has proved to be useful as an input in modern industries. For instance, pharmaceutical companies have used medicinal TK to develop drugs more quickly. Despite its value, TK faces an alarming rate of loss and there are many initiatives that attempt to preserve it for posterity. However, almost every major issue on TK protection is contentious, including whether international TK protection is necessary or if domestic legislation alone would …

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Hope For Indian Tribes In The Us Supreme Court: Menominee, Nebraska V. Parker, Bryant, Dollar General … And Beyond, Bethany Berger Jan 2017

Hope For Indian Tribes In The Us Supreme Court: Menominee, Nebraska V. Parker, Bryant, Dollar General … And Beyond, Bethany Berger

Faculty Articles and Papers

There has long been concern that the U.S. Supreme Court is hostile to Indian tribes. Between 1990 and 2015, tribal interests lost in 76.5% of Supreme Court cases distinctly affecting them; the loss rate rose to 82% in the first decade of the Roberts Court. With four Indian law cases on the docket last year, Native communities were poised for disaster. Newspapers speculated on why tribes could not win in the Supreme Court. By the end of June 2016, however, tribal interests had lost just one case, won two, and the Court split four-four in a fourth, affirming a lower …

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Indigenizing Equality, M. Alexander Pearl, Kyle Velte Jan 2017

Indigenizing Equality, M. Alexander Pearl, Kyle Velte

Faculty Articles

Notwithstanding the significant victories of the LGBT civil rights movement over the past 20 years, culminating in the declaration of full marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges, anti-LGBT sentiment generally, and anti-marriage-equality sentiment in particular, continue to run deep. One pocket of resistance is in some tribal communities. While Obergefell unequivocally resolved the problem of the “patchwork quilt” of marriage equality among the states, the problem of gaps in marriage equality among Tribal Nations has left the problem of the “patchwork quilt” intact. This article answers the question: What is the effect of federal marriage equality on the modern expression …

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Finding A Path To Reconciliation: Mandatory Indigenous Law, Anishinaabe Pedagogy, And Academic Freedom, Karen Drake Jan 2017

Finding A Path To Reconciliation: Mandatory Indigenous Law, Anishinaabe Pedagogy, And Academic Freedom, Karen Drake

Articles & Book Chapters

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called on law schools in Canada to make Indigenous law a mandatory component of legal education. In its final report, the Commission provides the outline of a rationale in support of this call to action. This paper builds on that outline by grounding the Commission’s rationale in the jurisprudence on section 35(1) of the Constitution Act, 1982. Articulating a comprehensive rationale is useful for at least three reasons. First, such a rationale can underpin a response to the claim that a required Indigenous law course lacks value for those students who do not intend …

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Who Owns Our Ancestors' Voices? Tribal Claims To Pre-72 Sound Recordings, Trevor Reed Jan 2017

Who Owns Our Ancestors' Voices? Tribal Claims To Pre-72 Sound Recordings, Trevor Reed

Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts

A familiar story is told in Indian Country: a researcher arrives on a Native American reservation and begins recording ceremonial songs and oral histories; years later tribal members find, often to their horror, that these sensitive materials are available for sale, download, or streaming to the public. This scenario aptly describes the life of numerous sound recordings made on federally recognized Indian reservations prior to 1972, whose ownership status remains uninterrogated due to the complex overlap and ambiguities of copyright and federal Indian law. Yet recently, owing to an increased sense of self-determination and autonomy, Native American tribes have begun …

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The Washington Redskins Case And The Search For Dignity, Victoria Phillips Jan 2017

The Washington Redskins Case And The Search For Dignity, Victoria Phillips

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

INTRODUCTION: For more than sixty years, Native American activists have been involved in discussions and protests over the appropriation and use of tribal references in sports names, logos, and mascots. During this same period, many of these uses have since been changed, driven by civil rights struggles and a growing awareness of the proven social harms and racism inherent in these references. Despite a gradual movement towards abolition and evolving signs of cultural understanding, many mascots invoking Native names and imagery persist today across professional, collegiate, and local school district sports. These mascots and team names, and the trademarks associated …

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Traditional Problems: Gay Marriage And The Backlash Against Indian Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug Jan 2017

Traditional Problems: Gay Marriage And The Backlash Against Indian Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug

Faculty Publications

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Through A Federal Habeas Corpus Glass, Darkly- Who Is Entitled To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Tribal Court Under Icra And How Will We Know If They Got It?, Jordan Gross Jan 2017

Through A Federal Habeas Corpus Glass, Darkly- Who Is Entitled To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Tribal Court Under Icra And How Will We Know If They Got It?, Jordan Gross

Faculty Law Review Articles

Part I of this article is a history and analysis of the federal constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. It explains how federal ineffective assistance of counsel jurisprudence has developed almost exclusively in the context of federal habeas review of state court convictions and rendered most federal ineffective assistance of counsel claims unviable. Part II explains the right to counsel in tribal court and the habeas corpus remedy available to tribal prisoners under ICRA. Part III identifies issues that will need to be addressed now that Congress has created a statutory ineffective assistance of counsel claim for tribal prisoners …

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Valuing Sacred Tribal Waters Within Prior Appropriation, Michelle Bryan Jan 2017

Valuing Sacred Tribal Waters Within Prior Appropriation, Michelle Bryan

Faculty Law Review Articles

Throughout the world water plays a central role in the spirituality of indigenous peoples. Focusing on the American West, this article first describes how tribal water needs touch upon the sacred and then explains how both federal law and state prior appropriation doctrine fail to adequately protect these important sacred views of water. Pivoting away from the classic federal law arguments, the article then advocates for an evolution in state water law regimes to provide yet unrecognized protections for tribal sacred waters. Because international law plays an increasing role in this issue, the article also explores case studies from Ireland, …

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