Interior Changes Process For Determining A Tribe’s Land-Into-Trust Eligibility

Mealey's (March 11, 2020, 2:34 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The solicitor for the Department of the Interior on March 10 issued a memorandum to all of the agency’s solicitors outlining a new procedure for determining whether an Indian tribe is eligible to have land taken into trust by the government under the first definition of “Indian” in the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (IRA)....