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Legal Internship Opportunity - The Washington DC Office is seeking legal interns for the 2011 summer and fall semesters. Apply by October 15, 2010.
PDF of Director of Finance and Administration application, deadline September 17, 2010.
On November 16, 2006, the Onondaga Nation filed its opposition to motions to dismiss in its land claim suit against the State of New York. The full text of the submission and its supporting exhibits are shown below. The effort involved the work of many -- click here to see a list of acknowledgments. The Full Text of the Submission...
In February 2005, the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs (a traditional Haudenosaunee government), the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe , and the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne signed an agreement with Governor George Pataki to resolve their historic claim to lands in Northern New York. Represented by the Indian Law Resource Center, the Mohawk Nation Council of Chiefs approved the agreement only...
Text of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Briefing paper written by the National Congress of American Indians, Native American Rights Fund, and the Indian Law Resource Center on the U.S. State Department Consultations on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Like the Mohawks and the Onondagas, the Senecas were the victims of unlawful land deals with the State that robbed them of much of their historic territory in Western New York. Our work on the Tonawanda Seneca Nations land claim now focuses on efforts to reverse the deeply disappointing 2002 federal district court ruling that dismissed the claim on cross-motions...
The Indian Law Resource Center has helped Indian nations and tribes and other indigenous communities in their struggles to protect their lands, resources, and human rights, the environment and their cultural heritage for nearly 30 years. This section highlights several of our past projects.
Our land is not for sale. The United States thinks it can do whatever it wants, but we know and our children and grandchildren will know that we never sold our land. (Carrie Dann Speech, November 7, 2003) In 2002, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a decision stating that the United States is violating the Danns’ (Western Shoshone)...