Social Movements & the Law

Rhode Island advocates helped pass the nation’s strongest Freedom to Read law. Their new white paper offers tools and strategies for advocates nationwide.

The Native American Rights Fund recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Tribal Supreme Court Project, an initiative designed to establish an infrastruc…

The Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted last month to repeal ABA Standard 206.

Social media users are creating “I am Jane Doe” posts aim to protect the plaintiff by confusing algorithms

Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them

The nation says the wall would be "devastating" to its lands and people.

A federal district court in Washingotn, D.C. on Wednesday heard arguments in the Tohono O’odham Nation’s lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s plan to construct additional bor...

Through the federal government’s university land-grant programs, which began with the Morrill Act in 1862 and continue today, Congress has systematically allocated millions of acres of land in the western United States to states to create endowments to support the public higher education of its citizens. In Arizona, land was taken from Indigenous people, communities, tribes, and nations by treaty, act of congress, executive order, and force to accomplish this. As a result, by the time of statehood in 1912, the state of Arizona had accumulated approximately 850,000 acres of land around the state on behalf of higher education including the University of Arizona, then the state’s only university and its designated land-grant institution. Today, the Arizona State Land Department still holds and manages 688,706 acres of land in trust for the benefit of public higher education. All three of Arizona’s public universities receive distributions from the revenue generated by these trust lands. The goal of this paper is to explore and analyze the University of Arizona’s historical and ongoing enrichment from land taken from Indigenous peoples by the federal government and transferred to the territory and, later, the state of Arizona for the benefit of institutions of higher education in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A comprehensive understanding of Arizona’s history and the state’s current holdings and financial benefits is required to examine the policy implications and moral and legal obligations that Arizona and its universities have to Indigenous peoples in Arizona.

Research shows that neurodivergent employees display tendencies that can boost organizational performance—but too many organizations are not designed to incorporate their unique skill sets. meta property=

In the summer of 1887, eleven-year-old Hopi girl Polingaysi Qöyawayma watched from the mesa as government agents approached her village. Her mother quickly hid her beneath corn husks in their storage room, but the agents were thorough. When they found her, Polingaysi was loaded onto a wagon bound for Keams…

The National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA) was conceptualized to serve as a national digital platform and digital repository for boarding school archival collections throughout the United States.

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Kimberly Panian and Hoi Yee Baxter have sued the Justice Department, claiming a

People in prison have a constitutional right of access to the courts to challenge their convictions, contest conditions of confinement, and otherwise protect their legal interests. Granting access to legal information and resources to incarcerated individuals also serves a broader public purpose, helping to expose wrongful convictions, identify unconstitutional conditions, and ensure that correctional institutions remain subject to legal oversight and accountability.

Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.

Since 2010, the Red Dress movement, originated by Métis artist Jaime Black, has been both an artistic and educational call to action.

The Trump administration recently asked visitors to U.S. national parks to report displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans and to restore sites as “uplifting public monuments."

Author: The team at Brooklyn Law School Library Each month, BLS librarians meet with Associate Dean Dominique Fowler and Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Communications staff to learn about upcoming cultu…

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

It’s probably not an uncommon misconception to believe that archives are distant, hidden away and devoid of feeling. As a current graduate student pursuing a master’s in library and information science (MLIS), archival practice based on scientific principles, especially those framed in Anglo, Eurocentric ideologies can and do feel disconnected from capturing the vast tapestry of the human experience.

Navajo Nation Code (2009) & Uncodified Amendments Introduction Navajo Nation resolutions are passed by the 24-member Navajo Nation Council and its standing committees, then given to the Navajo Nation President for signature, upon which they become law. Permanent laws (enactments and amendments) are normally directed by the Council to be codified in the Navajo Nation […]

Dallas Goldtooth, an activist and actor famously known for his role on the television series “Reservation Dogs,” will address approximately 70 students and 600 guests expected to attend a University

Slow management in a fast world Meredith Farkas Portland Community College tinyurl.com/calmslow Photo by Tahir Osman: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blurred-people-on-railway-station-platform-17188893/