Galanda Broadman has grown yet again, by adding Bree Black Horse, who last month completed her clerkship for Judge Brian M. Morris in the United States District Court for Montana.

Bree joins the firm’s Seattle office as an Associate.  Her practice focuses on federal court and tribal court litigation involving tribal governments, enterprises and businesses.

Anthony Broadman is quoted at length by Law360 regarding "5 Rulings That Have Sown Confusion Over Tribal Sovereignty."

As to Montana v. U.S.:

The Montana decision creates problems for tribal courts by assuming they lack jurisdiction, according to Anthony S. Broadman of Galanda Broadman PLLC.

On July 13, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) took another step to further allow Tribes to exert their energy autonomy by introducing the Tribal Tax Incentive for Renewable Energy Act.  This Act would permit Tribal Governments to take advantage of federal renewable energy tax credits by allowing tribes to transfer their share of the production tax credit to private entities that finance joint venture renewable energy projects on tribal lands.  Tribes would then be able to offer 100 percent of the tax credit to their partners.  Under the current regime, the tax credit is wasted:

“One hundred fifty years ago, this was utopia — with no (social) classes, no rich, no poor, no starving people. Everyone lived together in 1,000-foot longhouses, and they knew the difference between right and wrong.” —NCAI President Brian Cladoosby, Seattle Times

Disenrollment is destroying the remaining vestiges of the American indigenous utopia.

By Jared Miller

“Because of the local ill feeling, the people of the States where [Indians] are found are often their deadliest enemies.” U.S. v. Kagama, 118 U.S. 375 (1886).

In a scathing opinion, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday condemned the State of Utah for ignoring decades-old law preempting state prosecution of tribal members on Ute tribal lands.

Tribal lawyers Gabe Galanda, Anthony Broadman and Ryan Dreveskracht were each honored by Super Lawyers magazine for 2015; Gabe as a Washington “Super Lawyer” and Anthony and Ryan as “Rising Stars,” in the field of Native American Law.

On Saturday, the Spokane Tribe of Indians General Council passed a Referendum that amended the Tribe's constitution to generally prohibit disenrollment. The new Spokane constitutional provision provides: "Except in instances where a citizen transfers enrollment to another Tribe, no Spokane Tribal law shall operate to strip citizenship from any person who has previously been recognized to possess citizenship . . ."

Anthony Broadman has published, "Gaming, Pot and Tribal Resistance As Economic Development," in this month's King County Bar Bulletin.

Rather than the sensational, even hysterical, writings about tribal recreational marijuana legalization since the Wilkinson Memo issued in December, Anthony gives the topic proper context.  An excerpt:

This spring there has been a surge of tribal public opinion against the practice of tribal disenrollment.  The tide of tribal public opinion is dramatically turning on that non-indigenous mode of Indian self-termination, and those tribes and tribal leaders who extinguish their kin. Most recently, Marty Two Bulls drew and pubished this political cartoon:

Five years ago, Drs. Stephen Cornell and Joseph Kalt cited a Republican-fueled “trend away from the Indian self-government movement” and predicted that a GOP-controlled Congress might well put “an end to policies of self-determination.” That possibility could not be more real that it is today.