Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher
ABA SEER “Community Conversation” re: Arizona v. Navajo Nation Supreme Court Argument
Here.
Title: Arizona v. Navajo Nation, U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument Debrief
Date/Time: April 20, 2023, 12–1 pm Mountain Time.
Registration link: https://americanbar.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqf-uprDgtHNJdop7wBRttqIpyu3j9-Xw2#/registration
Description: Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments in Arizona v. Navajo Nation, a case that pertains to the Navajo Nation’s claims to water rights in the mainstem of the Colorado River and the United States’ trust obligation to assess and assert those rights under the Court’s more-than-century-old Winters doctrine. Although this current case ostensibly relates to one Tribe’s rights to one specific water source, the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling could have ripple effects for Native Nations across the United States as they seek to assert, quantify, and settle their water rights in ongoing adjudications nationwide. Join law professors Heather Whiteman Runs Him (University of Arizona), Derrick Beetso (Arizona State University), and Heather Tanana (University of Utah) for a discussion about the Arizona v. Navajo Nation oral arguments, the potentially wide-ranging implications of the case, and their work on the amicus briefs they coauthored and submitted to the Court, during this free virtual event sponsored by the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ (SEER) Native American Resources Committee and Water Resources Committee.
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects An Echohawk, An Echo-Hawk, Tiya Miles, Wes Studi, Stephanie Fryberg, and a Fletcher
Here’s my acceptance letter:
Not as cool as Joy Harjo’s letter from a few years back:
St. Regis Mohawk Sue over Automobile Use Taxes
Here is the complaint in St. Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Franklin County (N.D. N.Y.):
Minnesota CLE Indian Law Conference 2023
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Here are materials in In re Gold King Mine Release (D.N.M.):
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Here are materials in United States v. Buzzard (N.D. Okla.):
New Scholarship on the Repatriation of the Maaso Kova
Shea Esterling has published “The Journey Home: The Repatriation of the Maaso Kova” with the American Society of International Law.
New Scholarship on the Repatriation of the Maaso Kova
Shea Esterling has published “The Journey Home: The Repatriation of the Maaso Kova” with the American Society of International Law.
Bethany Berger on Intertribal Wildlife Orgs
Bethany Berger has posted “Intertribal: The Unheralded Element in Indigenous Wildlife Sovereignty,” forthcoming in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Intertribal organizations are a powerful and unheralded element behind recent gains in Indigenous wildlife sovereignty. Key to winning and implementing judicial and political victories, they have also helped tribal nations become powerful voices in wildlife and habitat conservation. Through case studies of these organizations and their impact, this article shows why intertribal wildlife organizations are necessary and influential, and how the intertribal form reflects a distinct relational approach to wildlife governance. As the first article focused on the intertribal form, moreover, the article also identifies an unexamined actor in tribal sovereignty and legal change.
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