2024 Indian Law Advancement News Stories


‘We’re going to get this done’: time running out for Indian Country legislation (Indianz.com) 11/25/2024

New handbook on tribal law launched for Michigan legal community (Legal Newsline) 11/12/2024

Tribal Nations concerned about Oklahoma Supreme Court's future (KGOU NPR Oklahoma) 11/7/2024

Overcoming odds in boosting Native representation in elected offices (Public News Service) 11/5/2024

Native Americans and the Supreme Court [video] (National Constitution Center) 11/4/2024

North Dakota’s 2 Native lawmakers say they need tribal support in legislative session (North Dakota Monitor) 9/4/2024

First Indigenous female U.S. governor will take power if Harris wins (Daily Beast) 8/6/2024

Republican senator blocks the nomination of the first Native American to serve as federal judge in Montana (Native News Online) 5/28/2024

ASU Law, Diné College, Navajo Nation partner on first-ever Tribally affiliated legal program (Native News Online) 5/23/2024

Our revised race standards still fall short for Indigenous Americans (The Hill) 5/3/2024

Biden nominates Salish & Kootenai Tribal attorney Danna Jackson for federal bench (Native News Online) 4/24/2024

SCOTUS hears arguments about a case involving federal health funding for the Northern Arapaho Tribe (Wyoming Public Media) 3/27/2024

Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin: Ojibwe lawyer and suffragist (In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress Blog) 3/27/2024

Covering the ‘complexity’ of federal Indian affairs (Harvard Law Today) 3/20/2024

The future of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (ICT) 3/11/2024

Increasing Tribal judicial transparency (Native America Calling) 2/19/2024


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