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Conference Announcement: 20 Years of the IGRA

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In addition to the conference, they are hoping to honor four people who have worked positively for Indian gaming over the past 20 years. More details on that aspect below the conference information.

Indian Country’s Winning Hand: 20 Years of the IGRA (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act) CLE Conference

October 16-17, 2008

Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino in Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, AZ

A balanced twenty-year retrospective of the successes, failures and impact of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988. This commemorative conference will examine the history and the impact of the IGRA and the Indian gaming industry through the eyes of tribal leaders, scholars and those who were there when the IGRA became law. Sponsored by the NCAI, NIGA, Arizona and New Mexico Indian Gaming Assns, CNIGA, American Indian Law Center, Inc., the Native Nations Law & Policy Center at UCLA, and the Indian Legal Program and American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), a commemorative conference entitled: “Indian Country’s Winning Hand: 20 Years of IGRA” and a Pathbreakers Banquet will be held at the Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino in Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, Arizona on October 16-17, 2008. The Pathbreakers Banquet, on the evening of Thursday, October 16, 2008, will recognize and honor the outstanding contributions and achievements of four individuals whose work has positively impacted Indian gaming over the last twenty years.

If you know someone who you would like to nominate to be honored, please visit the conference website at http://ilp.law.asu.edu/banquets.html and complete a Pathbreakers nomination form. We welcome all nominations of individuals. Nomination deadline is June 15, 2008. Please Spread The Word to your colleagues and join us to honor the Indian Country’s Pathbreakers.

Visit http://www.law.asu.edu/ILP for complete conference information online

Website: ILP.law.asu.edu
Contact: Darlene Lester

Phone: 480-965-7715

Email: darlene.lester@asu.edu

Registration for 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference

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Registration for the ILPC’s 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act, is now available online here.

Mother Earth Water Walk

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Two Anishinawbe Grandmothers, and a group of Anishinawbe Women and Men have taken action regarding the water issue by walking the perimeter of the Great Lakes.

Along with a group of Anishinabe-que and supports, they walked around Lake Superior in Spring 2003, around Lake Michigan in 2004, Lake Huron in 2005, Lake Ontario in 2006 and Lake Erie in 2007.

This year they are walking around Lake Michigan again, with the send off on April 26th in Manistee, Michigan.  For more information about the walk, click here.

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe to address U of M Board of Regents regarding Ancestral Remains held by U of M

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From the email announcement:

CALLING OUT FOR SUPPORT!

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe (SCIT) was just notified that
a request was granted to address the University of Michigan’s Board of
Regents during their meeting TOMORROW, Thursday, March 20. The meeting
will begin at 3pm in the Regent’s Room of the Fleming Administration
Bldg. in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Joseph Sowmick, SCIT Public Relations Director, will read a
5-minute statement during the Public Comment session regarding the 1,200
or more “culturally unaffiliated” ancestral remains and their associated
funerary objects that are being held by the University of Michigan.

The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe is asking for a unified
mobilization of support from all Anishinabe people. MACPRA
representatives and Ogitchedaw (George Martin will be present with his
Eagle Staff) are strongly encouraged to attend. All interested peoples
who support the return of our ancestral remains, please join us.

We are planning to meet in the plaza between 2-3pm in front of
the Fleming Administration Bldg. located on Thompson St. All present
will not be able to go into the Regent’s Room, but a delegation of
support can be present in the plaza.

Tsalagi Think Tank blog

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Prof. Stacy Leeds just started a new blog at www.stacyleeds.com, called Tsalagi Think Tank. The blog is a Cherokee-centric blog about tribal law, good native governance and education.

Voting Rights in Indian Country Panel

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We will be hosting a panel tomorrow, January 31, on Voting Rights in Indian Country.  Speakers include Laughlin McDonald, Director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project, Dan McCool and Susan Olson, professors at the University of Utah and authors of Native Vote, and Ellen Katz, professor at the University of Michigan Law School.

More about time and location information can be found at our Spring Speakers Series page.
Please contact us if you have any questions.  No registration is necessary for attendance.

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Up For Vote in U.S. Senate

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Sent to us by Jerilyn Church, Executive Director of the American Indian Health & Family Services of Southeastern MI, Inc.:

Please call your respective United States Senator to ask him or her to vote YES on S. 1200, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which according to the Senate Calendar will come up for consideration on Tuesday, January 22. It is especially important for callers to urge their senators to also vote NO on any Urban Indian Health Amendments, which would eliminate funding for urban clinics.

The National Council for Urban Indian Health has disseminated an Urban Indian Health one-pager for callers to use when contacting their Senators.

Odawa language course makes its way into Harbor Springs’ curriculum

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By Christina Rohn News-Review Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 9:32 AM EST

A groundbreaking new course is being offered at Harbor Springs High School — Anishinaabemowin, the native language of Odawa Indians. The class, which is a collaboration between the Little Traverse Bay Bands (LTBB) of Odawa Indians and Harbor Springs Public Schools, began in September 2007 — the beginning of the current school year.

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Thanks

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To Rob J. Peters at www.blog.yahbayrising.com for adding us to his blog role and writing nice things about us. We’ll do the same. Rob writes about his tribe, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, and other Native issues.

Sherman Alexie wins National Book Award

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From the Seattle Times:

Seattle’s Alexie wins the National Book Award

By Mary Ann Gwinn
Seattle Times book editor

Seattle author Sherman Alexie has won the National Book Award for his highly autobiographical novel for young people, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”

Alexie got the news Wednesday night at the awards ceremony in New York. He won for best book in the young people’s literature category. In his acceptance speech, Alexie, an author of 19 books of fiction, poetry and essays, quipped: “Wow … I obviously should have been writing YA (young adult) all along.”

He credited Alex Kuo, a creative-writing teacher at Washington State University who gave him an anthology of Native American writing. It helped persuade him to become a writer: “I had never read words written by a Native American. The first one was a poem about frying baloney … I grew up eating fried baloney. The other was a poem by Adrian Lewis, and the poem had the line, ‘Oh, Uncle Adrian, I’m in the reservation of my mind.’ I knew right then when I read that line that I wanted to be a writer. It’s been a gorgeous and magnificent and lonely 20 years since then.”

The article continues here.