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Chickasaw Nation et al v. Department of Interior et al

  1. April 10, 2015

    DOI Says Tribes Ignored Clear Law On Timber Land Sales

    The U.S. Department of the Interior argued on Thursday in Oklahoma federal court that the Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation used irrelevant arguments about federal policy in accusing the government of illegally selling tribal timber lands when federal law clearly mandated the sale.

  2. April 03, 2015

    Tribes Slam DOI's Assimilation Arg In Timber Land Sale Row

    The Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation argued Thursday in Oklahoma federal court that the U.S. government relies on a revisionist history and a misguided assertion that a 1906 law, which the government said mandated it to dispose of the tribes' unallotted timber lands, was written in the spirit of assimilation.

  3. March 27, 2015

    DOI Says Gov't Had To Sell Okla. Tribes' Timber Lands

    The U.S. Department of the Interior told a federal judge Thursday that the federal government was mandated to sell 1.3 million acres of unallotted timber lands of the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation based on the plain meaning of a 1906 federal law for disposal of tribal lands.

  4. March 17, 2015

    Okla. Tribes Drop Gov't Sanctions Bid In Timber Land Row

    The Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation on Monday withdrew their bid to sanction the federal government for providing an allegedly unprepared U.S. Department of the Interior attorney as a witness in a suit over the government's sale of tribal timber lands.

  5. March 11, 2015

    Tribes Slam DOJ For Unprepared Witness In Timber Land Row

    The Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation on Tuesday asked an Oklahoma federal judge to sanction the federal government for providing a U.S. Department of the Interior attorney as a witness who they claim wouldn't answer crucial questions about the government's sale of tribal timber lands.

  6. March 06, 2015

    Okla. Tribes Say US Lacked Right To Sell Timber Lands

    The Chickasaw Nation and the Choctaw Nation on Thursday asked an Oklahoma federal judge to rule that the U.S. Department of the Interior and other federal agencies violated federal law by selling timber lands they held in trust for the tribes.