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Grand Traverse Band: Land-into-trust suit 'fruitless' (05/08)
An attorney for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians says a lawsuit challenging the Michigan tribe's land-into-trust lawsuit is "fruitless." The tribe wants about 22 acres placed in trust. A group of property owners, however, claims the...
Interior delays decision on Oneida land-into-trust (05/07)
The Interior Department has delayed a decision on the Oneida Nation's land-into-trust application. A decision was due early this month. But it has been pushed back, partly to respond to questions raised by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York), who wants...
Sen. Schumer seeks delay on Oneida land-into-trust (05/06)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is asking Interior Dirk Kempthorne to delay a decision on the Oneida Nation's land-into-trust applications. Schumer wants the Interior Department to address taxation, regulation, land claims and jurisdictional issues before ruling on the application....
Shakopee Tribe reclaims ancestral territory (05/05)
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota is stirring some local controversy with its land buys. The tribe has purchased 2,000 acres since the 1990s. Gaming revenues and low land prices have sped up the buys. Not all of...
Lawsuit challenges Grand Traverse land-into-trust (05/02)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is holding off a land-into-trust application for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians due to a lawsuit. The BIA wanted to acquire 22 acres of a former railroad right-of-way in trust for...
Editorial: Questions on Oneida Nation land-into-trust (05/01)
"The Oneida Indian Nation land-into-trust decision is expected anytime, and little has been done by our federal representatives to outline exactly what regulations, if any, the Oneidas will have to abide by. When the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs released...
Turtle Talk: Disaster looming on land-into-trust (04/30)
"Yesterday’s per curiam opinion in MichGo v. Kempthorne, while very, very important to the Gun Lake Band and other Michigan tribes, did not break any new ground. It was the third time in recent years that citizens groups challenged the...
Appeals court backs Gun Lake land-into-trust (04/29)
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to the land-into-trust application for the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan. In a unanimous decision, the court said the Bureau of Indian Affairs did not violate the National...
Turtle Mountain landowners allege mismanagement (04/29)
Members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians are trying to figure out what happened to their land. The federal government allotted land to Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. But landowners say no one kept...
Decision on Oneida land-into-trust due this week (04/28)
The Bush administration is set to make a decision on the Oneida Nation's controversial land-into-trust application. The tribe asked for 17,000 acres in two New York counties to be placed in trust. A Bureau of Indian Affairs is final environmental...
Wisconsin tribe objects to Oneida land-into-trust (04/25)
A Wisconsin tribe is urging Congress to stop the land-into-trust application for the Oneida Nation of New York. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is set to decide whether to take 13,000 acres in trust for the tribe. Associate deputy secretary...
Mashpee Wampanaog Tribe seals deal with town (04/23)
After two years of negotiation, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe signed an intergovernmental agreement with the town of Mashpee, Massachusetts. The deal requires the town to support the tribe's land-into-trust application. The tribe wants to have 120 acres in trust...
Oneida land-into-trust case drawing attention (04/17)
Tribes across the country are paying attention to a land-into-trust case involving the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. The National Congress of American Indians, the Native American Rights Fund and the Great Lakes Intertribal Council submitted a brief in the case....
Rep. Acuri: Explaining Oneida land-into-trust rider (04/10)
"When it comes to the New York Oneida Indian Nation’s land-into-trust dispute, the name-calling, the legal battles and uncertainty have gone on for far too long. It is overwhelmingly clear to me that all interested parties – the New...
Rep. Arcuri tried to block Oneida land-into-trust (04/09)
The Oneida Nation slammed Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-New York) for trying to block the Bureau of Indian Affairs from processing the tribe's land-into-trust application. Arcuri tried to insert a rider into a land management bill that would have blocked the...
Cason 'elusive' on Oneida Nation decision (04/04)
Associate deputy Interior secretary Jim Cason was "very elusive" about the Oneida Nation's land-into-trust application, county officials in New York told The Syracuse Post-Standard. Cason spoke by phone with leaders in Madison County, who oppose the tribe's request to have...
Judge subjects Oneida fee land to local jurisdiction (03/31)
A federal judge on Friday gave approval for a local government in Wisconsin to assert jurisdiction over fee lands owned by the Oneida Nation. In a 47-page decision, Judge William Griesbach acknowledged that the Indian Reorganization Act put an end...
BIA still reviewing Oneida Nation land-into-trust (03/31)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is still reviewing public comments on final environmental impact statement for the Oneida Nation's land-into-trust application. The EIS recommends that about 13,000 acres in Madison and Oneida counties in New York be placed in trust....
Oneida Nation, county meet for first time in years (03/28)
Leaders of the Oneida Nation and Madison County met for the first time in six years on Wednesday. The tribe and the county said the meeting was positive. But both sides are at odds over the tribe's pending land-into-trust application....
BIA holds hearing on Mashpee land-into-trust (03/27)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs held a public hearing on the land-into-trust application filed by the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts. The tribe gained federal recognition in May 2007 and is seeking to have 140 acres in the town of...
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