Monte Mills – The Conversation

Culverts installed for roads have led to a decline in salmon, which Northwest Indian tribes were ensured access to by treaty. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

April 19, 2018

Supreme Court case tests weight of old Native American treaties in 21st century

Monte Mills, University of Montana

A Supreme Court case deals with the narrow issue of tribal salmon fishing rights in the Northwest, but raises fundamental questions about justice for American Indians.

The Trump administration will review the status of The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, one of the country’s most significant cultural sites. Bureau of Land Management

May 3, 2017

Trump’s plan to dismantle national monuments comes with steep cultural and ecological costs

Michelle Bryan, University of Montana; Monte Mills, University of Montana, and Sandra B. Zellmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Trump wants to scale back national monuments on federal lands in the name of boosting the economy. But this would undo decades of investments to manage our cultural and ecological resources.

After the Army Corps of Engineers approved an easement for the North Dakota Pipeline, two tribes requested – unsuccessfully – to halt construction while their lawsuit over the project is resolved. AP Photo/Susan Walsh

February 15, 2017

How will native tribes fight the Dakota Access Pipeline in court?

Monte Mills, University of Montana

More than an easement: A scholar of Native American law lays out the legal arguments in the Dakota Access Pipeline and why they matter to all of us.

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