Category: Press

Justice Prevails: CHP Secures Tribal Civil Rights in Landmark Settlement with New Jersey

Our 6-year court battle to secure the civil rights of Native Americans successfully concluded this week when the Attorney General of New Jersey settled--acknowledging that...

The White Man Is Breaking His Word Again

In the millennia before Europeans arrived in North America, the town now called Bridgeton, New Jersey was a hub for the Lenni-Lenape people who inhabited...

Washington’s new $500m Museum of the Bible claims ‘non-sectarian’ mission

The Museum of the Bible is opening today (17 November) in a vast former warehouse near the National Mall in the US capital. Atop the...

Museum of biblical proportions set to open

When Museum of the Bible opens its doors on November 17, just three blocks from the US Capitol building in Washington DC, guests will enter...

Christie’s Defends Sale of 5,000-Year-Old Turkish Idol

Angling to auction off a 5,000-year-old Anatolian statue, Christie’s submitted evidence Monday that casts doubt on a bid by Turkey to repatriate the rare idol....

Spotlight on Hobby Lobby’s Biblical Collection After Smuggle Case

A day after craft chain Hobby Lobby agreed to pay a $3 million fine and return smuggled Iraqi artifacts, two professors called on the company...

Philadelphia Hopes to Harmonize Historic Preservation

Even without the bright orange demolition notice pasted onto its double doors, Christian Street Baptist Church wouldn’t be the most striking building in South Philadelphia....

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape don’t want to lose what they already have | Opinion

By any measure, 12,000 years is a long time, but that's how far back you can trace the lineage of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape peoples in...

New Jersey moves to toss tribe’s suit over recognition

New Jersey has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Native American tribe that claims the state gave it official recognition decades ago but...

American Indian tribe files second lawsuit against New Jersey

The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation filed a civil rights lawsuit against New Jersey and Attorney General John Hoffman, claiming they were wrong in not recognizing...

N.J. must recognize Lenni-Lenape as Native American tribe | Editorial

In middle school, we learned that most of South Jersey was settled by the Lenni-Lenape Indian tribe. There is even a high school in Burlington...

Lenni-Lenape tribe sue Christie, New Jersey over alleged civil rights violations

The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, an American Indian tribe of 3,000 members, filed a civil-rights action lawsuit in federal court against the state and Gov....

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation sues in New Jersey

The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday out of fears it could lose its recognition status in New Jersey.The...

SJ Native Americans Renew Fight For State Recognition

A tribe of Native Americans based in Cumberland County has gone to federal court in an effort to keep its official recognition by the state...

Native American tribe sues New Jersey for recognition

The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation filed a federal civil rights suit on Monday saying that not having recognition hurts its members psychologically and financially....

New Jersey American Indian tribe sues state for blocking official recognition, lawsuit states

The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation is fighting to retain its official recognition as an American Indian tribe with the state -- leading to a civil...

Lost and Found: Returning Stolen Art and Cultural Artifacts

When L. Eden Burgess, LAW JD ’00, started practicing law, she never expected to be involved in art theft and restitution cases, let alone one...

Alexandria firm practices ‘cultural heritage law’

Shortly after he started as an associate for Piper Rudnick LLP in Washington, Greg Werkheiser took on what he thought would be a short pro...