Firm Attorney Jenna Macaulay (Tuscarora Nation) has been appointed to serve on the New York State Committee newly established to review pending threats to unmarked burials. For decades, Firm clients the Haudenosaunee (comprised of the Tonawanda Seneca, Tuscarora,...
Click here to view, Letter: Our Patwin neighbors are still here today.
Berkey Williams LLP is delighted to announce that Janet Bill has been elected to serve on the Tribal Council of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians. Council Member Bill was formally sworn in to tribal office on October 25, 2021. Ms. Bill served as the Firm’s...
The Tenth Circuit held on September 30, 2020 that aboriginal water rights are alive and well in the state of New Mexico. The federal district court had concluded that Spanish colonization extinguished the rights of Jemez, Santa Ana, and Zia Pueblos to the waters of...
At the association’s 18th annual conference at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA, Ms. Erica Costa was nominated and elected to the Board of Directors of the California Indian Law Association (CILA). CILA is a volunteer based 501(c)(3) non-profit...
Rovianne Leigh joined the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Amah Mutsun Land Trust, and Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District to present at the 2018 California Land and Water Conservation Conference this March. The presentation focused on the ground-breaking stewardship...
