Neah Bay, Washington (AP)
A new chief judge has taken over the Makah Tribe’s case against five whalers who killed a gray whale without a permit last year.
Stanley Meyers, a former Neah Bay resident who is not an American Indian, was hired after the tribe declined to renew the contract of the previous chief judge, Jean Vitalis, whose objectivity had been questioned after she publicly criticized the whale hunt. The tribe’s associate judge, Emma Doulik, recused herself, citing her strong emotions over the hunt.
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Blackwell, Oklahoma (AP)
No criminal charges have been filed against the president of the Tonkawa Tribe, who was arrested on drug complaints during January.
An attorney for 43-year-old Anthony Street appeared recently before a Kay County judge, who reset the case for April...01-31-2008, 11:06 PM -
Neah Bay, Washington (AP)
A trial date was supposed to be set during January for five Makah tribal members accused of illegally killing a gray whale last year, but the tribal court had to postpone the hearing because there’s no judge to conduct it.
Jean Vitalis, the tribe’s...02-01-2008, 12:11 AM -
By Gene Johnson
Seattle, Washington (AP)
The Nisqually Tribe is unlikely to win its claim that Gov. Chris Gregoire struck an illegal deal to allow cigarette sales at Frank’s Landing, a small Indian community outside the tribe’s reservation, a judge said during May.
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Neah Bay, Washington (AP)
A Makah tribal judge has deferred prosecution for five tribal members who killed a gray whale last September in an unsanctioned hunt off the Washington coast.
The May 14 decision came months after the Makah Tribal Council had publicly promised...05-22-2008, 01:09 PM -
Providence, Rhode Island (AP)
A federal judge ordered a new trial in a lawsuit brought by a member of the Narragansett tribe who sued state police for a violent 2003 raid on a tribal smoke shop.
Adam Jennings’ ankle was broken in the July 14, 2003, raid at the shop on...06-03-2008, 12:34 PM