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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review whether Nebraska can enforce state tobacco regulations on sales occurring within the Winnebago Indian Reservation, dealing a blow to tribal sovereignty claims.
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A federal court has issued a temporary stay blocking the transfer of more than 80 acres in Ledyard, Connecticut, into trust for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe.
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President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis, the second person convicted in a scheme that defrauded the Oglala Sioux Nation to receive clemency in recent days.
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President Donald Trump has pardoned Devon Archer, who was convicted in 2018 of defrauding the Oglala Sioux Nation for roughly $60 million.
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A Broward County jury has ordered Wells Fargo to pay $826 million to the Seminole Tribe of Florida's children for mismanaging a trust fund established to manage gaming revenues.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the Department of Education and return education authority to the states.
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) has begun offering buyouts to employees as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the federal workforce, according to media reports.
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Bryan Newland, who served as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2021 to January 2025, has joined Washington, D.C.-based law firm Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC as a principal in its Indian Tribal Governments Group, the firm announced on March 12.
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Tribal leaders urged Congress yesterday to fix a program allowing tribes to manage their own trust assets that expires next year.
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Native leaders called for mandatory funding of Indian Health Service and tax parity with states during Senate testimony this week, pointing to a $9,000 gap in per-patient healthcare spending between Native and non-Native communities.