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October 15, 2018 | Helena, MT “It is outrageous that American Indian and Alaska Native women are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted or raped than other women in the United States and the fact that United States law continues to fail them day after day and decade after decade is the worst type of discrimination.” said Christopher...
March 8, 2017 | The actions and statements of the federal Administration have already done serious harm to the rights, interests, and sacred sites of many Indian nations, and they have raised serious concerns that the Administration may abandon or change some of the most important legal principles supporting the United States’ trust responsibility. The Administration has also called into...
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September 2016 The Executive Board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has agreed to update its Indigenous Peoples Policy, after an investigation found the bank breached it and other operational policies when it approved an investment in the Mareña Renovables Wind Project. The project, slated for development on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, was to be the largest...
The recent Texas Federal District Court ruling in Brackeen v. Zinke, which struck down portions of the Indian Child Welfare Act and declared ICWA a race based statute, is the latest development in a long campaign by anti-Indian groups and the federal government to get rid of one of the most important principles in federal Indian law: that laws benefiting...
In May 2018, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review a decision by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding whether Congress disestablished the Creek Nation’s reservation under 18 U.S.C. § 1151(a). The case, Carpenter v. Murphy, calls on the Court to determine whether the Creek Nation’s reservation in Oklahoma was diminished or disestablished and whether the state had...
It’s been two years since the Executive Board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) pledged to review and update its Indigenous Peoples Policy – part of the response to the Center’s complaint against the IDB-financed Mare ñ a Renovables Wind Project in Oaxaca, Mexico. The project had drawn intense opposition from indigenous communities that feared the wind turbines and infrastructure...
We are seeing evidence that engaging the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Agua Caliente’s fight to protect thier rights to thier lands and resources is putting pressure on the Guatemalan government and the agencies that have refused to give the community their land titles. In July, Guatemala’s Congress forced FRONTIERRAS, the country’s land titling agency, to explain why it...
Indian Law Resource Center responds to young Maya girl’s death in U.S. custody [Washington D.C., December 14, 2018] – The Indian Law Resource Center expresses its deep sadness and concern at the recent death of Jackeline Caal, a 7-year-old Maya Q’eqchi’ girl from Guatemala who died while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol at a medical facility...