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Seneca voters pick a new president Tuesday, and with it the next negotiator on an unsigned casino compact
Councilor Tina Abrams, the Seneca Party nominee, would be the Nation’s first woman president. She would inherit a compact standoff in which Gov. Hochul says there is no agreement and the outgoing…
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Haldimand Tract trial breaks until Nov. 9 as the court weighs Six Nations oral history
The Six Nations land-rights trial adjourned Oct. 28 and resumes Nov. 9 in Ontario Superior Court. Here is where the case stands.
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Haldimand trial week three: Canada and Ontario challenge Six Nations oral history
Canada and Ontario objected to Six Nations’ oral history evidence as the land-rights trial entered its third week.
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Tribes tell the Supreme Court prediction markets are ‘today’s prospectors’ as Kalshi’s legal fight widens
130 tribes and 15 tribal groups have asked the Supreme Court to rein in Kalshi’s sports contracts. A new Seventh Circuit appeal and New York’s lawsuit raise the stakes for the Seneca…
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Tribal nations push back on Senate permitting deal that would rewrite Section 106 consultation
Tribal organizations say a bipartisan Senate permitting bill would narrow the historic preservation reviews that protect sacred places, and they are urging Congress to drop the language before Nov. 9.
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Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus gas expansion selected in record federal tribal energy round
The Seneca Nation requested $6.7 million from the Department of Energy to expand its own natural gas system on the Cattaraugus Territory. It is one of 63 tribal projects selected in a…
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Navajo Nation braces for weeks of recovery after record San Juan River flooding
Homes in Shiprock went underwater as the San Juan River broke a 1909 record upstream. President Buu Nygren is seeking $10 million in tribal disaster relief.
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Appeals court says 1929 census descendants belong in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel upheld Interior’s decision to let descendants of Miwok people on a 1929 Calaveras County census take part in organizing the California Valley Miwok Tribe, a ruling that…
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For the eighth time, the Montaukett Nation’s recognition bill waits on Gov. Hochul
The Legislature has again voted to restore state recognition to the Montaukett Indian Nation, stripped by a 1910 court ruling. Gov. Kathy Hochul has vetoed the measure before.
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Analysis: Canada tells the Haldimand court it didn’t inherit the Crown’s debts to Six Nations. In the 1920s, it paid toward one anyway
Three weeks into the Six Nations of the Grand River trial, Canada and Ontario say today’s governments aren’t answerable for what the Crown did with the Haldimand Tract. Canada’s own court filings…
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Akwesasne Mohawks and Tonawanda Senecas are fighting hyperscale data centers at both ends of New York
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe opposes a 635-megawatt data center planned near Akwesasne as Massena lines up lawyers for the review, while the Tonawanda Seneca Nation fights the STAMP project in court.…
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Judge refuses to halt Seneca Nation’s Miami Street One Stop, rejecting Buffalo’s bid to stop construction
A state judge found Buffalo hadn’t shown enough immediate harm to stop work on the Seneca Nation’s $10 million One Stop at 5 Miami Street, land the federal government placed in restricted-fee…
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Traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ council challenges Cayuga Nation police appointment, saying no clan consensus approved it
The Condoled Chiefs and Clan Mothers Council says the Halftown administration’s police department was never approved by the clans, and that Cayuga families who oppose it should not be called “dissidents.”
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Nearly three years of Seneca casino money sits in escrow. If the compact the Nation describes is approved, the 2023 deal sends it to arbitration
Since December 2023 the Seneca Nation has paid its 25% slot share into escrow. The extension Hochul signed says a new compact without exclusivity, like the one the Nation describes, sends that…
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Seneca Nation bans all Level 3 sex offenders from its territories, with annuities and leases on the line
The Seneca Nation Council has barred every Level 3 registered sex offender from Seneca territory. Members who violate it can lose annuity payments, and lessees who harbor an offender can lose their…
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Gillibrand bill would let Washington and the Seneca Nation end New York’s criminal jurisdiction on Seneca land
A Senate companion to Rep. Nick Langworthy’s bill would let the Justice Department and the Seneca Nation end New York’s 1948 criminal jurisdiction on Seneca land. Its broader definition of ‘territory’ raises…
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Six Nations’ Haldimand Tract lawsuit is finally on trial, and its roots run through New York
Thirty-one years after filing suit, Six Nations of the Grand River is in court against Canada and Ontario over lost lands and trust funds, with potential damages estimated at $13.9 billion to…
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Federal judge sends Buffalo’s Seneca One Stop lawsuit back to state court, denies emergency halt
Judge Meredith Vacca remanded the city’s case against Seneca Nation leaders to Erie County Supreme Court and said she lacked authority to grant a restraining order, leaving the Miami Street fight unresolved.
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Tina Abrams wins Seneca Party nomination for President, poised to become first woman to hold the office
Longtime Council Member poised to become first woman to serve as Seneca Nation President SALAMANCA, N.Y. — Tina Abrams, a longtime councilor of the Seneca Nation of Indians and a member of…
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Seneca Tribal Council could lease Niagara Falls Reservation to individual tribal members to boost development
The Niagara Falls Territory is only about 56 acres, but it is one of the most valuable pieces of restricted-fee land the Seneca Nation holds. It sits next to one of the…
