Ute Indian Tribe presents arguments on CARES Act distributions to U.S. Supreme Court â UPDATED
Tribe argues Alaska Native Corporations are not recognized governing bodies of Indian tribes eligible to receive CARES Act funding
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Ute Indian Tribe
On Monday, April 19, 2021, the Ute Indian Tribe presented arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on the distribution of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funds to federally recognized tribal governments. The consolidated cases are known in the media as
Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, but actually include a number of separate cases brought by the Ute Indian Tribe, other Indian tribes, and Alaska Native Villages.
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear argument on that question in
Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. Immediately at stake in the answer is billions of dollars in federal CARES Act funding. But the outcome could also have longer-term consequences for how, and from whom, Alaskan Natives receive essential services.
Remember the $8 billion #CoronavirusReliefFund for tribal governments?
Well the Supreme Court is finally hearing arguments in the long-running #COVID19 dispute!
First, some background. Just as, in
McGirt v. Oklahoma last term, the court confronted the complex past of Oklahoma’s Native nations, Chehalis turns on the unique legal history of Alaskan Natives. Though Alaska became part of the United States in 1867, the federal government only fitfully devoted attention to the status of the new territory’s Indigenous peoples.
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HCR3 failed on a 45-27 vote, with all nays supplied by Republicans even though some of the GOP joined Democrats to vote in favor of it.
Rep. Elizabeth Weight, D-West Valley City, urged her fellow lawmakers to support the nonbinding resolution, arguing that Native American mascots often are disrespected. Weight, a retired school teacher, said in her talks with leaders of Utah tribes, she said many told her, It s time, time for people to consider retiring those mascots.
Her resolution would have also encouraged the Utah State Board of Education, school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in Native American culture and history.