By Tim Giago It was 75 years ago (June 18, 1934) when the Indian Reorganization Act became the law of the land. On the 50th anniversary of the IRA, a conference was held at Sun Valley, Idaho, to ...

The Blackfeet Nation voted no on a new governing document Tuesday in their first-ever vote to replace the Indian Reorganization Act constitution that’s been in place since the 1930s.

Last month marked the 85 th anniversary of the passage of the FDR-era Indian Reorganization Act. It is now up to Congress to make this milestone a happy one. Hailed by supporters as the “Indian ...

That Indian Reorganization Act carried forward all these years because tribal governments have grown and prospered. Basically, we kind of run our own affairs these days.

On Monday, their fight reaches the U.S. Supreme Court in a case being closely watched across the country because it could determine how tribes recognized after the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act ...

The lawsuit argues that the approval violates multiple federal laws and regulations, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Indian Reorganization ...

Introduced by Senator Padilla (D-Calif.), S.4000 would reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California, Tribe and clarify its eligibility to have ...

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA), sometimes known as the Indian New Deal, authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land and hold it in trust “for the purpose of providing ...

It was a great & grave occasion— the signing of the first tribal constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (TIME, June 25, 1934).

Issue: (1) Whether, under the Indian Reorganization Act, to have been a "recognized Indian tribe now under Federal jurisdiction" in 1934, a tribe must have been "recognized" at that time; and (2) ...

The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007, introduced last year by Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), is meant to do that.