The Indian Law Resource Center is seeking to assist the Innu of Matimekush with their land rights issues.
We received the following press release: Innu Chiefs: Lower Churchill Hydro-development cannot be built on our land and territory without the consent of the Innu People
CBC News Story: Quebec Innu want Lower Churchill compensation
Shoshone Tribe fights back -- You can help!
Robert T. Coulter, Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center, describes an unusual opportunity to overturn one of the most discriminatory and unconstitutional legal doctrines affecting Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the government from taking any property without just compensation and due process of law. This rule applies to everyone in the country except Indian tribes. The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe has been a victim of this faulty application of the law. The Timbisha Shoshone case presents a historic legal challenge unlike any other case in federal Indian law.
Timbisha is a small tribe living in Death Valley that does not have the funds to defend itself without our help.
News from the OAS negotiations on the draft American Declaration
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Positive momentum is building from meetings between Indian leaders and government officials from 29 countries in the Americas this week in Washington, D.C.
Leaders are working on the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Hear firsthand updates from delegates Rex Lee Jim, of the Navajo Nation, and Darwin Hill, of the Six Nations Confederacy.
Reactions to the historic White House
Tribal Nations Conference
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“The Obama administration should enforce the right to property due process of law and equality under the law.” |
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"What Obama told us about partnership, collaboration, consultation and sovereignty ... was music to my ears."
Ben Shelly, vice president of the Navajo Nation. |
Robert T. Coulter responds to Congressional apology to Native Americans
October 8th, 2009
"What happened is a failure on the part of Congress to really acknowledge what it has done in the past."
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