Sovereignty Symposium 2010
AS LONG AS THE GRASS GROWS AND THE RIVERS FLOW
June 2 – June 3, 2010
Skirvin – Hilton Hotel
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
__16__ hours of CLE credit for lawyers will be awarded, including __1_ hour of ethics.
The Sovereignty Symposium was established to provide a forum in which ideas concerning common legal issues could be exchanged in a scholarly, non-adversarial environment. The Supreme Court espouses no view on any of the issues, and the positions taken by the participants are not endorsed by the Supreme Court.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
a.m. 4.5 CLE credits / 1 ethics included
p.m. 3 CLE credits / 0 ethics included
9:30 – 12:00 PANEL A:
THE YEAR OF THE HORSE
MODERATOR: HONORABLE TOM COLBERT, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Madeleine Pickens, Help Save America’s Wild Horses, Dallas, Texas.
Honorable Gregory E. Pyle, Chief, Choctaw Nation, Durant, Oklahoma.
Honorable Kelly Haney, Seminole, Oklahoma.
8:30 – 5:30 PANEL B:
ECONOMIC CO- OPERATION, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENTS
CO- MODERATORS:
DR. JAMES C. COLLARD, Director of Planning and Economic Development, Citizen Pottawatomi Nation, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
KAY BILLS, (Osage), President and Founder, Strategic Native Partnerships (SNAP), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Honorable Natalie Shirley, Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Honorable John “Rocky” Barrett, Chairman, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Honorable Shane Jett, Oklahoma House of Representatives, Tecumseh, Oklahoma.
Don Chapman, (Mohegan), Côqayohômuwôk,
Senior Advisor on Native American Affairs, Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.
Jeff Finkle, President and CEO, International Economic Development Council, Washington, D.C.
Nola Miyasaki, Center for Innovation and Economic Development, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Vincent G. Logan, The Nations Group, LLC,
New York, New York.
8:30– 12:00 PANEL C:
IN LAND WE TRUST
MODERATOR: HONORABLE DEBORAH BARNES, Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
CO- MODERATOR: LEAH HARJO-WARE
To be Named, USDOI, Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, “Maximizing Income from the Land Base for Trust Beneficiaries.”
Alan Woodcock, Esq., Field Solicitor, USDOI, Tulsa, Oklahoma, “Putting Land into Trust post Carcieri v. Salazar and the Legislative Fix.”
G. William Rice, (United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians), Associate Professor of Law, University of Tulsa, College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, “Alternate Ways to Designate Indian Lands.”
M. Alexander Pearl, Esq., Kilpatrick, Stockton, Washington, D.C., “Struggling to Protect the Land Base – the Tribal Trust Cases.”
Angie Hamilton, (Kiowa), Department of the Interior,
Office of Hearings and Appeals, Aberdeen, South Dakota, “Passing Guardianship over the Land Base – Federal and Tribal Probate Codes.”
8:30 – 12:30 PANEL D:
GAMING COMPACTS
MODERATOR: MR. CAL HOBSON, Executive Director of Operations, University Outreach, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
Honorable Scott Meacham, Oklahoma State Treasurer, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Scott Wells, President and General Manager, Remington Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Bob Rabon, Esq., (Chickasaw), Rabon, Wolf and Rabon, Hugo, Oklahoma.
Kirke Kickingbird, Esq., (Kiowa), Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker, Oklahoma City.
8:30 – 5:30 PANEL E:
TRIBAL AND STATE JUDICIAL COLLABORATION:
JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES
MODERATOR: HONORABLE PHILLIP LUJAN, Presiding Judge, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Tribal Court, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
SESSION ONE: ISSUES IN JUVENILE/DEPRIVED AND NEGLECT CASES
CO- MODERATOR: HONORABLE DARRELL DOWTY,
Project Director, American Indian Resource Center, Institute for Native Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Court Grant-Traces; Judge, Judicial Appeals Tribunal, Cherokee Nation; Tribal Court Judge, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Honorable Barry Denny, Associate District Judge, Delaware County, Jay, Oklahoma.
Honorable Elizabeth Brown, Associate District Judge, Adair County, Stillwell, Oklahoma.
Steve Hager, Esq., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Honorable Korey Wawassuck, Associate Judge, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Case Lake, Minnesota.
SESSION TWO: ETHICS
Honorable John F. Reif, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Skiatook, Oklahoma.
SESSION THREE: UNIFORMITY IN JUDGMENTS AND SENTENCES
CO- MODERATOR: HONORABLE STACY LEEDS,
Professor of Law and Director of the Tribal Law and Government Center, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas.
Trent Shores, Assistant United States Attorney, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Honorable Dianne Barker Harold, Associate District Judge, Pawnee Nation, Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.
Honorable John E. Parris, Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
Honorable Bret Burns, District Attorney, District Six,
Duncan, Oklahoma.
Honorable Stacy Leeds, Professor of Law and Director of the Tribal Law and Government Center, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas.
SESSION FOUR: HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF TRIBAL LAWS
Dr. Marcia Haag, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, “The Journal of Peter Pitchlynn, 1826-1828.”
Henry Willis, (Choctaw), Community Teacher and Consultant for the Language Program, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, Oklahoma, “The Journal of Peter Pitchlynn, 1826-1828.”
Wednesday Afternoon:
1:15 – 2:30 Opening Ceremony and Keynote Address
– Camp Call: Honorable Lawrence Hart (Cheyenne), Traditional Cheyenne Peace Chief, Clinton, Oklahoma.
– Master of Ceremonies – Honorable Rudolph Hargrave, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Wewoka, Oklahoma.
– Presentation of Flags by Tribal Leaders.
– Honor Guards:
– Vietnam Era Veterans Intertribal Association
– Kiowa Black Leggings.
– Drum: Southern Nation Singers.
– Invocation: Honorable Lawrence Hart (Cheyenne), Traditional Cheyenne Peace Chief, Clinton, Oklahoma.
– Welcome: Chief Justice James Edmondson, Chief Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
– Welcome: Honorable Bill Follis, Chairman, Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
– Welcome: Allen M. Smallwood, President, Oklahoma Bar Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
– Welcome: Honorable Jari Askins, Lieutenant Governor, State of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
– Address: HONORABLE TOM COLE, United States House of Representatives, Moore, Oklahoma.
– Closing Prayer: The Right Reverend William C. Wantland (Seminole), Seminole, Oklahoma.
3:30 – 3:45 Tea / Cookie Break for all Panels
2:30 – 5:30 PANEL A:
ECONOMIC CO- OPERATION, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENTS
[A Continuation of the Morning Panel]
CO- MODERATORS:
DR. JAMES C. COLLARD, Director of Planning and Economic Development, Citizen Pottawatomi Nation,
Shawnee, Oklahoma.
MS. KAY BILLS, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Dr. Gavin Clarkson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, “The Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on Native American Tribes.”
Alvin Harrell, Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Gary Pitchlynn, Esq., (Choctaw), Pitchlynn and Williams, Norman, Oklahoma.
Ken Bellmard, Esq. (Kaw), Rubenstein, McCormick and Pitts, Edmond, Oklahoma.
2:30 – 5:30 PANEL B:
MAKING REAL ESTATE INTERESTS WORK IN INDIAN COUNTY
MODERATOR: FREDERICK H. MILLER, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma.
Dale Higer, Esq., Uniform Law Commissioner, Chair of Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on Model Tribal Legislation on Collateralization and Probate Transfer of Interests in Real Property, Boise, Idaho.
David English, Law Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri.
Douglas Nash, Esq., Institute for Indian Estate Planning and Probate, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington.
2:30 – 5:30 PANEL C:
TRIBAL AND STATE JUDICIAL COLLABORATION:
JURISDICTIONAL ISSUES, COMMON CONCERNS AND THE PATH TO SOLUTIONS [A Continuation of the Morning Panel]
2:30 – 5:30 PANEL D:
INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND JUSTICE IN GUATEMALA: THE MAYA EXPERIENCE
MODERATOR: Honorable Marian P. Opala, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Clyde Snow, Ph.D, Forensic Anthropologist, Norman, Oklahoma.
Giovanna Gismondi, Adjunct Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma.
Freddy Peccereli: Guatemalan forensic anthropologist.
Jose Sosof, Maya victim of the massacre in Santiago Atitlan.
Harvey Pratt, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Rosalina Tuccuy, Comision Nacional de Resarcimiento, (National Reparations Commission), Guatemala.
2:30 –5:30 PANEL E:
KEEPING TRIBAL COMMUNITIES SAFE—INFORMATION SHARING FOR TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, HOMELAND SECURITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE AGENCIES
MODERATOR: CHRISTOPHER CHANEY, Deputy Director, Office of Tribal Justice, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Joe LaPorte, Fellow, National Counter Terrorism Center, Washington, D.C.
Tammy Hughes, Crime Analyst, Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police, Ada Oklahoma.
Kim Carter, Fusion Center Coordinator, Oklahoma Information Fusion Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
a.m. 4.5 CLE credits / 0 ethics included
p.m. 4 CLE credits / 0 ethics included
Thursday Morning:
7:30 – 4:30 Registration
8:00 – 8:30 Complimentary Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 12:00 PANEL A:
INDIAN GAMING: A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE
MODERATOR: MATTHEW MORGAN, ESQ., Chickasaw Nation Gaming Commissioner, Ada, Oklahoma.
Jeff Keel, Esq., General Counsel for the Chickasaw Nation Gaming Commission, Ada, Oklahoma.
Elizabeth Homer, Esq., (Osage), Homer Law, Chartered, Washington, D.C.
Steffani Cochran, Esq., Associate Commissioner, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington D.C.
Joe Valandra, former Chief of Staff, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington D.C.
Jerome L. “Jerry” Levine, Esq., Holland and Knight, Los Angeles, California.
Michael Anderson, Esq., Anderson, Tuell, Washington, D.C.
8:30 – 12:30 PANEL B:
SESSION ONE: A UNITED FORCE FOR HEALTH: THE TRIBES AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
MODERATOR: DR. KENNETH COPELAND,
Jonas Professor and Chief, Section of Pediatric Diabetes/Endocrinology, University of Oklahoma Medical School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, Oklahoma.
SESSION TWO: FINANCING HEALTH CARE: CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICES IN THE INDIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
MODERATOR: P. BENJAMIN SMITH, M.A., Deputy Director, Office of Tribal Self-Governance, Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.
Hankie Ortiz, Esq., Director, Office of Tribal Self-Governance, Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.
Michael D. Mahsetky, Esq., Director, Congressional and Legislative Affairs, Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.
Carl Harper, Director, Office of Resource Access and Partnership, Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland.
Terry Schmidt, Director, Contract Health Services, Oklahoma City Area Office, Indian Health Service, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mickey Peercy, Executive Director of Health Services, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, Oklahoma.
8:30 – 12:00 PANEL C: TRIBAL TRANSIT – PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR INDIAN COUNTRY
MODERATOR: TIM GATZ, Director of Capital Programs, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Jay Adams, Director for Tribal Coordination, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Angie Gilliam, Transit Director, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma.
Debbie McGlasson, Transit Director, Pelivan Transit and the 9 NE Tribes of Oklahoma.
Mr. Ken LaRue, Transit Division Manger, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
8:30 – 12:00 PANEL D: CHILDREN’S ISSUES
MODERATOR: HONORABLE HOWARD HENDRICK, ESQ., Director, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Honorable Tom Walker (Wyandotte/Cherokee), District Judge, Ardmore, Oklahoma, “The Long View:
A History of and Progress for Indian Children involved with Child Welfare and the role of ICWA.”
Ben Loring, Assistant District Attorney, Member, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, Miami, Oklahoma, “The Biggest Successes and the Biggest Challenges for Children.”
Honorable Gary Miller, District Judge, El Reno, Oklahoma, “What I Learned in the Executive Branch.”
Ann Davis, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and
Billye Leitka, Indian Child Welfare Director for the Seminole Nation and Co-Chair of the Tribal State Collaboration Workgroup, “Tribal Relations and OKDHS: Working Together for Indian Children.
Sue D. Tate, M.S., Alternative Dispute Resolution Director and Court Improvement Coordinator, Administrative Office of the Courts Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
Howard Hendrick, Esq., Director, Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “Wrapup: Issues Persons Would Like to
Consider Together to Improve the Future for Indian Children.”
8:30 – 12:00 PANEL F:
WATER LAW
MODERATOR: Honorable Drew Edmondson, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Stephen Greetham, Esq., Special Counsel, Water and Natural Resources, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma.
Judith Royster, Professor of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Honorable J. D. Strong, Oklahoma Secretary of the Environment, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Dr. Will Focht, Director, The Oklahoma Water
Resources Research Institute, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Susan Work, Esq., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Honorable Cheryl McClellan, Second Chief, Sac and Fox Nation, Stroud, Oklahoma.
Thursday Afternoon:
3:30 – 3:45 Tea / Cookie Break for all Panels
1:30 – 5:00 Panel A:
GAMING
MODERATOR: JESS GREEN, ESQ., (Chickasaw), Ada, Oklahoma.
Matthew Morgan, Esq., Chickasaw Nation Gaming Commissioner, Ada, Oklahoma.
Gary Pitchlynn, Esq. (Choctaw), Pitchlynn and Williams PLLC, Norman, Oklahoma.
Elizabeth L. Homer, Esq. (Osage), Homer Law Firm, Washington, D.C.
Graydon Dean Luthey, Jr., Hall, Estil, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Honorable Steffani Cochran, National Indian Gaming Commission, Washington, D.C.
Mark Van Norman, (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota), Executive Director, National Indian
Gaming Association, Washington, D.C.
Ernie Stevens, Jr., (Oneida), National Indian Gaming Association, Washington, D.C.
D. Michael McBride III, Esq. Crowe and Dunlevy, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1:30 – 5:00 PANEL B:
CRIMINAL LAW
MODERATOR: HONORABLE SANFORD C. COATS, Esq., United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Arvo Mikkanen, Esq. (Kiowa/Comanche), Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “Cross-Deputization of State, Federal and Tribal Law Enforcement.”
Don Gifford, Esq., (Cherokee), Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “Developments in Sex Offender Registration Efforts.”
Shannon Henson, Esq., and Dean Burris, Esq., Assistant United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Muskogee, Oklahoma, “Project Safe Neighborhood Initiatives.”
R. Trent Shores, Esq., (Choctaw) and Clint Johnson, Esq., Assistant United States Attorneys, for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma, “White Collar Crimes and Public Corruption.”
1:30 – 5:00 PANEL C:
NATIVE AMERICAN EDUCATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
MODERATOR: G. WILLIAM RICE, Associate Professor of Law, University of Tulsa, College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Gloria Valencia- Weber, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Honorable Stacy Leeds, Professor of Law and Director of the Tribal Law and Government Center,
University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas.
Jonodev Chaudhuri, Esq., The Chaudhuri Law Office, Tempe, Arizona.
Dr. Henrietta Mann, President, Cheyenne/Arapahoe Tribal College, Weatherford, Oklahoma.
Dr. Jerry C. Bread, Sr., Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
Dr. Richard Allen, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
Dr. Tom Holton, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona.
Dr. Hugh Foley, Rogers State University, Claremore, Oklahoma.
Dr. Joe Watkins, Director, NAS, University of Oklahoma.
1:30 – 5:00 PANEL D: WATER LAW
A CONTINUATION OF THE MORNING PANEL
MODERATOR:
Lindsay Robertson, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law.
John E. Echohawk, Esq., (Pawnee), Native American Rights Fund, Boulder Colorado.
Cara Cowan Watts, Cherokee Nation Tribal Council, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
1:30 – 5:00 THE FIRST AMERICANS & THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND TABLE IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR CYNTHIA PRICE COHEN
MODERATOR: KEITH D NUNES, Scholar-in-Residence, Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights, Kean University
James Anaya, James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy. The University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona.
Christina M. Cerna. Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Principal Human Rights Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
Dr José Martínez Cobo, United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, New York, New York.
Dr. Kenneth Dollarhide, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kean University, Union, New Jersey.
Ellen L. Lutz, Esq., M.A. Executive Director, Cultural Survival, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Winston Nagan, FSRA, Samuel Dell Research Scholar, Professor of Law, Affiliate Anthropology Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Ánde Somby, traditional Sami joik artist, Research Scholar Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø, Buolbmat, Norway.
Siegfried Wiessner, Professor of Law and Director, St. Thomas University Intercultural Human Rights LLM Program, Miami, Florida.
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