{"id":13432,"date":"2021-06-25T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=13432"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T19:48:12","slug":"nations-highest-court-sides-with-alaska-native-corporations-in-covid-19-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/25\/nations-highest-court-sides-with-alaska-native-corporations-in-covid-19-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation’s highest court sides with Alaska Native corporations in COVID-19 dispute"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Yukon<\/a>
The Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation has been providing COVID-19 vaccines to Native youth in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska. Photo: Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Nation’s highest court sides with Alaska Native corporations in COVID-19 dispute<\/div>\r\n
Friday, June 25, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThis post will be updated throughout the day.<\/em>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. — Alaska Native corporations<\/a> will finally be able to receive COVID-19<\/a> funds after the nation’s highest court ruled in their favor in one of the most heated Indian law and policy disputes in decades.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nBy a vote of 6 to 3 on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> confirmed that the Native corporations, or ANCs, are \u201cIndian tribes\u201d as defined by the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act<\/a> (ISDA). As such, they are entitled to funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act<\/a>, also known as the CARES Act<\/a>, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the majority.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThe court today affirms what the federal government has maintained for almost half a century: ANCs are Indian tribes under ISDA,\u201d Sotomayor wrote at the conclusion of the 28-page ruling<\/a> in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of Chehalis Reservation<\/em><\/a>.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cFor that reason, they are Indian tribes under the CARES Act and eligible for Title V funding,\u201d she continued, referencing the section of the COVID-19 law at issue in the bitter dispute that began during the Republican Donald Trump administration<\/a> and continued into Democratic Joe Biden era<\/a>.\r\n

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Find the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of Chehalis Reservation here. #SupremeCourt<\/a> #CARESAct<\/a> #CoronavirusReliefFund<\/a> #COVID19<\/a> #Coronavirus<\/a> #SelfDetermination<\/a> #Sovereignty<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/LaIhtt54W2<\/a><\/p>— indianz.com (@indianz) June 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>