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Reception at the Fed Bar Indian Law Conference
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Author: Kate Fort
Morning Edition Story on Exxon Valdez 25 Years Later
Here.
Native Alaskan Tom Andersen, once a commercial fisherman, no longer makes his living from the sea, either. “You can’t fix it. Once you break that egg, sometimes that’s it,” he says.
Andersen, 71, says the waters here have sustained his people, the Chugach, for generations. He now picks up odd construction jobs hanging drywall. A whole way of living has changed, he says, making a wiping motion with his arm.
“You pretty much lived there — you got your clams and crabs and fish,” he says. “And then somebody come and dumped oil all over it, you know? That’s really hitting home.”
Unpublished California ICWA Case on Customary Adoption in State Court
Here.
In sum, because the Tribe never identified tribal customary adoption as an option, because the Tribe was involved in the selection of the appropriate permanent plan for the child, and because the record shows that the Tribe was aware of tribal customary adoption at the time of the selection and implementation hearing, the father has failed to show “a reasonable probability that compliance with the procedural requirements of tribal customary adoption would have resulted in an outcome more favorable to him.” (G.C., supra, 216 Cal.App.4th at p. 1401.)
Big Questions: 1855 Treaty and Treaty Rights
Half hour show on the 1855 Treaty and treaty rights generally.
Listening Session on the BIA ICWA Guidelines, April 15,
BIA letter here.
The second listening session will be April 15th from 1:30pm-3:00pm at the NICWA conference.
Walter Echo-Hawk to Speak at MSU Today!
Join us for our third (and final) Spring Speakers Series event today, March 13th, at the MSU Law College.
Kansas Law Conference on ICWA
18th Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference today.
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome Remarks Dean Stephen Mazza, KU Law Professor Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center |
| 9:15-10:15 | Indian Child Welfare Act: Its Origins and Application (PDF) Dean Stacy Leeds, University of Arkansas School of Law Moderator: Burton Warrington, President and CEO of Prairie Band LLC |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: The Arguments, The Decision and Potential Implications Mark Fiddler, Mark Fiddler Law Office (PDF) Chrissi Nimmo, Assistant Attorney General of the Cherokee Nation (PDF) Moderator: Professor Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center |
| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch, Gridiron Room, Burge Union |
| 1:30-3:00 | The Future of ICWA Russ Brien, Brien Law LLC (PDF) Vivien Olsen, Attorney with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (PDF) Professor Colette Routel, William Mitchell College of Law |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break |
| 3:15-4:15 | Ethical Considerations Related to ICWA Professor Kate Fort, Michigan State University College of Law (PDF) Moderator: Rebecca Howlett, KU Law Student and KU NALSA Member |
| 4:15 | Closing Remarks |
Slate Vault on Andrew Jackson Handbill
Here.
n Slate earlier this week, Jillian Keenan argued that we should “kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill.” As this “coffin handbill,” distributed during the 1828 election, shows, the seventh president has long inspired such violent dislike.
“He has ever been a man of ‘blood and carnage,’ ” the Philadelphia editor John Binns, who printed and distributed the handbill, writes. In small print, the broadside collected several instances of Jackson’s alleged perfidy, recounting the story of an 1815 execution of six militiamen for desertion during the War of 1812; pointing to the killing of Indian noncombatants during the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend; and reprinting personal testimony from Sen. Thomas Hart Benton about an altercation he had with Jackson in a Nashville-boarding house.
Bill to Clear Treaty Fishing Convictions Heads to Gov. Inslee
Here.
American Indian tribal members arrested while exercising their treaty fishing rights before 1975 would get the chance to clear their criminal records under a bill headed to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk.
House Bill 2080 passed the Senate unanimously Wednesday. It passed the House in February.
The measure would allow tribal members to apply to the sentencing court to expunge their related misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor or felony convictions. Family members and tribal officials also could seek a vacated criminal record on behalf of a deceased person. The court would have the discretion to vacate the conviction, unless certain conditions apply, such as if the person was convicted for a violent crime or crime against a person.
via @SmithsonianNMAI
LA Times Article on Yurok Tribal Court Judge Abinanti
Here.
Abby Abinanti squints at her docket. “The court is going to call — the court is going to put on its glasses,” she says dryly, reaching to grab her readers and snatch some candy from a staff member.
As chief judge of the Yurok Tribal Court, Abinanti wears no robe. On this day, she’s in jeans and cowboy boots, her silver hair spilling down the back of a black down vest. In contrast to her longtime role as a San Francisco Superior Court commissioner, she doesn’t perch above those who come before her; she shares a table with them.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-yurok-tribal-judge-20140305-dto,0,320867.htmlstory#ixzz2v8BFclZJ
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