Law->Court Cases: Multibillion-dollar Canadian residental school settlement passed
Posted on Tuesday, August 21 @ 10:07:24 PDT (1987 reads)

The deadline for Canadian native people to sign up for a multibillion-dollar national settlement came and went on Monday, with the critical number of people agreeing to take the money.

An estimated 80,000 residential school survivors are still alive.

If 5,000 had refused the settlement, Ottawa would have had the right to scrap the deal.

But few declined, meaning an aboriginal who was forced to be away from his or her family while attending a residential school will get an average $27,000.

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Law->Court Cases: Sacred Peaks offerred prayers and lawsuits for protection
Posted on Sunday, May 14 @ 13:24:00 PDT (4704 reads)

AUTHOR: Somana Yaiva, The Observer

Amidst the dust and set into the backdrop of the San Francisco Peaks, the Navajo Medicinemen's Association held a weekend long ceremony over April 21 through 23 for the safeguarding and continued protection of the sacred San Francisco Peaks.

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Law->Court Cases: Ground zero for an accounting that will take seven years
Posted on Saturday, May 13 @ 18:11:49 PDT (4326 reads)

AUTHOR: John Heilprin

Seventy feet beneath the prairie, the governmentt is filling limestone caverns - protected by guards and a bomb-snifffing dog - with truckloads of American Indian financial and cultural records.

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Law->Court Cases: Head of Indian trust lawsuit urges tenacity
Posted on Sunday, April 09 @ 13:40:44 PDT (4662 reads)

AUTHOR: Michael Moore, Missoulian

MISSOULA -- When Elouise Cobell finally decided to sue the U.S. government for mishandling a century's worth of trust income it held for Indians, she thought the lawsuit might last three years. In two months, the case that bears her name will have been in the court system for 10 years.

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Law->Court Cases: Tribal court rules in favor of “Freedmen”
Posted on Friday, March 10 @ 16:25:31 PST (6300 reads)

AUTHOR: Sam Lewin, Native Times

Justices say Cherokees must grant membership to descendants of slaves

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Law->Court Cases: Boarding schools in America or residential schools in Canada: What was the difference?
Posted on Thursday, December 15 @ 13:12:31 PST (5540 reads)

AUTHOR: Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji)

What happened to the Indian children sent to the "residential schools" in Canada was not very different than what happened to the indigenous children in the United States.

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Law->Court Cases: Who was that masked man?
Posted on Wednesday, November 03 @ 20:12:50 PST (5696 reads)

Who was that masked man?.. KEYWORDS: Kemosabe racism against native americans Lone Ranger Tonto meaning of kemosabe origin of kemo sabe Kemo Sabay

"Kemosabe," the name given to the Lone Ranger by his friend Tonto in the 1950s TV western, is not a racist term, a Canadian court has found. The ruling was delivered by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal last week in a case involving a native Canadian woman who complained that the manager of the store where she worked had created a poisoned environment by calling her Kemosabe.

Note: What IS the meaning of Kemo Sabe, anyway? Click here to find out.

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Law->Court Cases: Indians come forward with tales of physical and sexual abuse at missionary board
Posted on Sunday, June 08 @ 20:15:17 PDT (13065 reads)

KEYWORDS: Indian boarding schools sexual abuse physical abuse Catholic boarding schools Catholic scandals pedofile priests child abuse government boarding schools class action lawsuit Indian lawsuit Pine Ridge Reservation Pine Ridge Rez Sonny One Star priestly sexual abuse St. Francis boarding school Indian children Gary Frischer Predatory priests and nuns Lakota boarding schools Holy Rosary school Floyd Hand St. Paul's Mission Yankton reservation Rosebud reservation Sioux reservation St. Francis Mission Jesuit boarding school

AUTHOR: Sharon Waxman

ROSEBUD RESERVATION -The day the Rev. Kenneth Walleman came to the front door, Lloyd "Sonny" One Star went to get his gun.

"I couldn't keep my composure. I kept shaking," One Star, 46, a leader of the Sioux tribe on this reservation, said. "I was going to kill him."

Walleman was a former administrator at St. Francis Mission, the Jesuit boarding school One Star had attended through his youth, a priest, One Star says now, who sexually abused him for years.

Walleman fled before he could state his business that day a few years ago, but he might yet face the wrath of Sonny One Star and that of other former students. After years of holding their silence, hundreds of American Indians are giving accounts of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of the priests and nuns who ran a dozen missionary boarding schools across South Dakota through most of the 20th century.

Note: If you attended the Boarding Schools and were a victim of abuse, you may become part of this litigation by either calling Jeff Herman's office at 1-800-686-9921 or visit the website at www.hermanlaw.com

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Law->Court Cases: Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation vs. Health and Human Servic
Posted on Tuesday, February 05 @ 13:21:51 PST (4240 reads)

Keywords: SHOSHONE-BANNOCK TRIBES OF THE FORT HALL RESERVATION v. DEPT. HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVS., No. 98-36022, 99-35951 Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation vs. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 98-36022, 99-35951 tribal law indigenous law

(9th Cir. February 04, 2002)

Because the department's interpretation of the congressional appropriation of funds was consistent with congressional intent under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, the district court's award of additional funding reversed.

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Law->Court Cases: Special trustee testfies that Interior gave court inaccurate, incomplete reports
Posted on Wednesday, January 09 @ 01:57:00 PST (2743 reads)

SOURCE: Press Release
Indian Trust.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. Thomas N. Slonaker, the senior official entrusted by Congress with overseeing reform of the Individual Indian Monies (IIM) trust, told a federal judge today that two Interior Department Secretaries and their top aides filed misleading reports with the court and did virtually nothing in the past two years to comply with orders from Congress and the judge to provide Indian trust beneficiaries with an accounting of their money.

Saying repeatedly that he could not recall specific details, Slonaker nevertheless acknowledged, under questioning, that a series of trust reform projects, including a $36 million trust accounting data computer system, were poorly conceived and badly managed and that the disastrous results were concealed from the court in misleading quarterly reports okayed by both former Secretary Bruce Babbitt and current Secretary Gale Norton.

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