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Wondering what part of the Black Hills ARE NOT FOR SALE don’t these attorneys understand! Anyone that agrees to this is a sellout!!!!!!!!!
Lawsuit would let Sioux take money for Black HillsBy Chet Brokaw, The Associated Press
PIERRE — Members of eight Sioux Tribes should be given their share of hundreds of millions of dollars awarded in [...]

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High court case opens questions on land-trust issueBy Shannon Fiecke, Staff Writer
A recent Supreme Court decision that limits the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs’ ability to take land in trust could create complications for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community.
The ruling prohibits the department from putting land into trust for tribes that were not [...]

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Supreme Court ruling might give local governments jurisdiction over tribe-owned casinosBy Michael Wright
A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court appears to give states and local municipalities authority over some lands purchased by Native American tribes and targeted for commercial developments, such as casinos.
Representatives of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, which has proposed [...]

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U.S. Supreme Court ruling latest setback for Indians
01:00 AM EST on Sunday, March 1, 2009
By Paul Davis
Journal Staff Writer
EXETER — The 11 students at Nuweetooun School start every day the same way. They sit in a circle and greet each other in the Narragansett Indian language.
Sun koonay (How are you?), they ask. On [...]

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Supreme Court Ruling Freezes Tribal BoundariesBy ERIC GERSHON | The Hartford Courant February 25, 2009
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Tuesday limits the federal government’s ability to expand Indian reservations, a decision that freezes the boundaries of the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan lands in Connecticut, according to the state’s attorney general.
The court held that the [...]

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Court rules for state in American Indian land caseBy RAY HENRY – 2 days ago
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the federal government’s authority to hold land in trust for Indian tribes, a victory for Rhode Island and other states seeking to impose local laws and control over development [...]

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Tacoma Power, Skokomish Tribe reach Cushman Dam settlement
Jan 12 2009
Tacoma Power, the Skokomish Tribal Nation and state and federal agencies signed historic settlement agreements for Tacoma Power’s Cushman Hydroelectric Project Jan. 12. The agreements resolve a $5.8 billion damages claim and long-standing disputes over the terms of a long-term license for Cushman Hydroelectric Project, which [...]

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Shakopee drops fight with Mdewakanton SiouxThe city had opposed the tribe’s expansion, but a deal with the Bureau of Indian Affairs avoids a costly legal battle.
By DAVID PETERSON, Star Tribune
Last update: December 3, 2008 – 9:31 PM
The city of Shakopee is backing away from its fight to stop the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community from [...]

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Shakopee reaches tentative settlement with BIASubmitted by sfiecke on November 29, 2008 – 10:24pm.
On Tuesday, city leaders will vote on a proposed settlement that would end its lawsuit in the tribal land-trust issue.
Under the lawyer-negotiated agreement, 752 acres (572 in Shakopee) of tribal land would still be placed into trust, but the federal Bureau [...]

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Church members sue Episcopal Diocese over reservation landBy Mary Garrigan, Journal staff | Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Members of 11 Episcopal churches on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have filed lawsuits in Oglala Sioux tribal court asking that the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota be prevented from closing their churches and from deconsecrating buildings and cemeteries in [...]

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