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U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2020-2021update.html
Petition for certiorari was denied in one case on 11/2/20:
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. Tulalip Tribes (Treaty Fishing Rights)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html
United States v. Denezpi (Courts of Indian Offenses; Double Jeopardy)
Dotson v. Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Commission (Indian Gaming; Sovereign Immunity)
Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria v. State of California (IGRA)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2020.html
Smith v. Landrum (Jurisdiction)
Snider v. Arkansas Department of Human Services and Minor Children (Indian Child Welfare Act)

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

  • Cherokee Nation supports bipartisan ‘Durbin Feeling Native American Language Act of 2020’ proposed by Senators Udall, Murkowski
  • 'Jim Crow, Indian style': How Native Americans were denied the right to vote for decades
  • Shinnecock members occupy land on Sunrise Highway in protest
  • It happened here: Yakima rancher helps Yakama Nation in fight for land, water rights
  • New documentary on Indigenous food sovereignty
  • Navajo Nation may acquire stake in Four Corners power plant
  • How Indigenous architecture can change the way we live on Earth
  • University of Michigan Native American, Latinx groups demand required courses on 'decolonial pedagogy'
  • Patricia Marroquin Norby is the Met's first curator of Native American art. Here's how she navigates the field's thorniest issues

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