The order is here. Previous coverage of the case here.
Author: Kate Fort
The First Thirteen/Personal Reflections of the Argument–Event at UNM
Very interesting event at UNM & lots more information about it over at NARF:
Symposium:
The First Thirteen / Personal Reflections of the Argument
Friday, March 16, 2012 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
University of New Mexico School of Law
Albuquerque, NM
The First Thirteen Native attorneys who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court will be coming together to discuss their experiences in this history-making symposium. Dale White will interview them about their preparations, the day itself, and the impact on their careers and on Federal Indian Law. This is a rare opportunity that may never be repeated, so you don’t want to miss it! Proceeds will go to fund the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives (PLSI).
Registration form available online at www.ailc-inc.org.
or Email: begay@law.unm.edu
Sponsored by American Indian Law Center, Inc., New Mexico Indian Bar Association, Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, and the Law & Indigenous Peoples Program at the University of New Mexico School of Law.
Spring Speakers Series Event: Labor Law in Indian Country
Join us if you can:
February 21, 2012, 2:00 pm (Castle Board Room, 3rd Floor of the Law College Building)
Coffee and snacks provided
Authors:
Kaighn Smith Jr.
Labor and Employment Law in Indian Country
David Kamper
The Work of Sovereignty: Tribal-Labor Relations and Self-Determination at the Navajo Nation
Commentators:
Prof. Wenona T. Singel (MSU Law)
Wind River Student Responds to NYT on NYT Blog
We posted the original story here. Here‘s the response:
My Home
By Willow PingreeThe smell of fry bread and burgers, the laughter of friends and family reminiscing about good old times, the sound of music and the sight of people dressed in regalia, dancing inside an arbor while spectators watch from bleachers around the big arena. You’d find all of this at the Annual Eastern Shoshone Indian Days, or the Northern Arapaho Celebration powwow on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
As you walk around the outside of the dance arbor, you’d see crowds of people walking around you, sitting against wooden posts built along the outer rim of the powwow arbor: people sitting around a big circular drum, beating on it together in one rhythm and singing together in harmony. As the singers continue blasting their voices to the sky, the dancers slide and sway to the heartbeat of the people, the powerful sound of the drum. Surrounding them, the rolling hills, the sage brush covering the beautiful prairies, the awe-inspiring view of the towering Wind River Mountains.
This is my home, and it has been the home of my Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho people long before my generation.
Via TT friend CG
Information on CERD Review Session on Canada
MEDIA ADVISORY
UN Committee urged to examine discrimination against Indigenous peoples during review of Canada’s human rights record
16 February 2012
On February 22 and 23, Canada’s record on combating discrimination will be examined by a high level body of the United Nations. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the independent expert body that monitors compliance with the international treaty of the same name.
The review session is being held at the United Nations in Geneva. The session will be webcast by the United Nations at http://www.ccprcentre.org/home/215
Call for Submissions on Indigenous Peoples’ Participation at UN
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights welcomes submissions on the paper being prepared by the Secretary General on indigenous peoples’ participation at the United Nations by 9 April 2012. See Human Rights Council resolution 18/8 (2011):
13. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Office of Legal Affairs and other relevant parts of the Secretariat, to prepare a detailed document on the ways and means of promoting participation at the United Nations of recognized indigenous peoples’ representatives on issues affecting them, given that they are not always organized as non-governmental organizations, and on how such participation might be structured, drawing from, inter alia, the rules governing the participation in various United Nations bodies by non-governmental organizations (including Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31) and by national human rights institutions (including Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007 and Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/74 of 20 April 2005), and to present it to the Council at its twenty-first session;
For information, please see: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/Pages/ConsultationonIPparticipationintheUN.aspx.
Grisanti Casino Brawl Grows More Complicated
From the Buffalo News, which at least one friend of TT points out has corrected this story any number of times.
Police officials indicated Monday that they do not believe any crime was committed during a weekend brawl at a Niagara Falls casino involving State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti and a Seneca businessman.
But a new controversy about the rumble arose Monday evening when another Seneca Nation businessman told The Buffalo News he heard Grisanti yelling racial epithets at a black security officer during the Friday night incident. However, no racial epithets can be heard in a cellphone video of the incident given to the News by an attorney for another Seneca businessman.
The video shows Grisanti being held on the floor and later put in a chokehold by security officers.
The allegation of racist remarks was made by businessman Ross L. John Sr., a former member of the Senecas’ Tribal Council. John said he is certain that he heard Grisanti “at least twice” yelling a harsh racial epithet at a black security officer who had subdued him.
“I was maybe 15 feet away. I heard it,” John said. “[Grisanti] yelled, ‘Don’t you know who the [expletive] I am, you [expletive]?”
John said he is “certain” he heard Grisanti using racial epithets and will tell police that if he becomes a witness in the case.
Grisanti, R-Buffalo, told The News he was very upset during the incident but doesn’t recall making any racial statements of any kind.
“I don’t recall saying any racist word. That’s not in my nature,” Grisanti said late Monday.
President’s 2013 Budget Request for Indian Affairs
Here.
Escanaba Historical Society Presentation on Michigan Indians
NPR Interview with Prof. Tiya Miles on Slavery and American Indians
Here.
Professor Miles, welcome back to the program. Thanks so much for joining us and, of course, congratulations again on the McArthur. And I’d like to ask you, when you first encountered stories of African-Americans and Native American slaves in Michigan, in the Michigan territory. I think it’s a surprise to many people to know or to even think about the fact that slavery existed that far north.
TIYA MILES: Well, I first encountered this when I took a class to the Ypsilanti Historical Museum, and we also took a local Underground Railroad tour. And we learned about an abolitionist here in southeast Michigan named Laura Haviland, who did work in Detroit and also in Ontario.
And she taught a school for escaped slaves in Canada, and there were blacks, as well as native people at that school. So that, for me, was the first clue that there was something between black people and native people in Detroit history regarding slavery, as well as in the Southeast.
MARTIN: Well, what have you been able to piece together about the slave experience in Michigan for both African-Americans and Native Americans? And I realize that the research is in its early stages. I know we want to stress that. But what have you been able to piece together?
MILES: Well, the first thing that strikes me about this research is that Detroit is a very unusual place. It was a major settlement for Native Americans, for French settlers, for British settlers and then later, for the Americans. So that meant that it was an area where lots of people were moving through and passing through.
There was a good deal of contestation over who would get to control Detroit. Would it be the French? Would it be the British? And would it be the Americans? And this meant that slavery also had a multilayered aspect in Detroit.
A little side note: Laura Haviland spent much of her adult life just outside of Adrian, Michigan in Raisin Township, and ran a school there, in addition to being a part of the Underground Railroad. Until 2010, a statute of her sat in front of Adrian City Hall. Put in storage while the old City Hall was demolished, the city is currently thinking about putting it in front of the Adrian Historical Society. Haviland’s papers are held by the University of Michigan, and she wrote her autobiography, A Woman’s Life Work in 1881. One of the first historical projects I ever worked on (including my first trip to an archive to look at her papers) was examining the many different editions Haviland released of A Woman’s Life Work, all with slight changes as she continually rewrote her life’s work.
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