On Saturday, June 25, 2016, the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians celebrated with prayer, dance, and food the return to Tribal control of a piece of its ancestral lands, now known as the Kashia Coastal Reserve. The Reserve is on the Northern California coast contiguous to...
Aitkin County, Minnesota v. Acting Midwest Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, IBIA 06-39-A (June 12, 2008). In an Interior Board of Indian Appeals decision extending the fee-to-trust “on reservation” review criteria to a trust application for a tract...
Carcieri v. Salazar, 129 S. Ct. 1058 (2009). Supreme Court restricts Authority of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to Take Land Into Trust Under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Click here to an ABWW Update discussing the decision.