December 21, 2020
Federally recognized tribes won a D.C. Circuit decision that Alaska Native corporations aren't eligible for certain COVID-19 funding, the U.S. Supreme Court cemented tribes' rights to reservations under their treaties, and two tribes had a hand in fighting against the federal government's effort to shorten the census.
August 26, 2020
Navajo citizen Lezmond Mitchell was executed at an Indiana federal prison Wednesday for a 2001 double murder, a sentence carried out over the objections of many tribal advocates and the Navajo Nation itself, which opposes the death penalty.
August 20, 2020
The federal government on Thursday urged the Supreme Court not to grant a petition for certiorari to Lezmond Mitchell, a Navajo man on death row, saying his attempts to reopen a final judgment amount to a "fishing expedition."
August 19, 2020
Lezmond Mitchell, a Navajo man on death row and scheduled for execution on Aug. 26, filed an application for a stay Wednesday with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.