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TRIBAL CONSULTATION ANNOUNCEMENT: DOJ Consultation on the Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund for FY 21

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) invites you to participate in a Consultation on the Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund for Fiscal Year 2021. This Consultation will focus on soliciting your input about how OVC should expend Tribal Victim Service Set-Aside funds remaining …

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DC Circuit Denies Petition to Rehear a Decision that IHS wasn’t Required to Cover CSC Costs for Services Paid for by Insurers

Source: Law360 The D.C. Circuit has refused the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s bid to have the full court rehear a panel’s decision that the Indian Health Service wasn’t required to cover contract support costs for services paid for by insurers under the tribe’s health care contract. The tribe, located in Washington state, had asked the …

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New Journal Article on the Past, Present, and Potential Future of Tribal Co-Management on Federal Public Lands

FULL ARTICLE EXECUTIVE SUMMARYDeep ancestral and traditional connections tie many Native Nations to the federal government’s public lands. The removal of these lands from indigenous control, their acquisition by the federal government, and the federal government’s approach to their management are largely premised upon the erasure or marginalization of those connections. Both physically and legally, …

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