( April 12, 2024, 12:29 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) failed to adequately explain how it reached its conclusion that a former tribal employee who raised concerns about the Pit River Tribe’s use of certain federal funds was not protected from retaliation as a whistleblower, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in partly granting the employee’s petition for review....