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Because we haven’t changed the theme of Turtle Talk in nearly 10 years, the WordPress theme isn’t working anymore (and the search bar has disappeared to the bottom of the page). We are testing some different looks, so please be patient with us.
D.C. Indian Law Conference Friday 10/25
Interview of Black Belt Eagle Scout on NPR
Musician Katherine Paul, who grew up on the Swinomish reservation, identifies as queer and indigenous. An interview of her was aired on NPR yesterday.
Register Now for the 2019 ILPC/TICA Annual Conference!
It’s coming up quickly!
Hosted by the Tribal In-House Counsel Association and the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law
October 10-11, 2019, with pre-conference activities on October 9, 2019
648 N. Shaw Lane, East Lansing MI 48824
Check out the tentative agenda and register today.
12.5 Minnesota CLE credits are pending, which includes 1 elimination of bias credit and 1.5 ethics credits.
Be a TICA/ILPC Sponsor! You can find the sponsorship form here.
Last year, our generous sponsors helped us successfully meet our fundraising goal for the 2018 Indigenous Law Conference! We hope to do the same this year, but we need your help once again. Visit TICA’s 2019 fundraising goal page, which will be regularly updated, for more information.
Job Announcements Announcement
Good afternoon!
We are very pleased that so many people have found our Friday legal job announcements to be useful. We are always happy to hear from people who have found jobs from the postings.
Just as a gentle reminder, all requests to post jobs must follow the format identified here:
https://turtletalk.blog/indian-law-job-announcements/
and sent here: indigenous@law.msu.edu
If it doesn’t, we cannot guarantee your announcement will make into a Friday post. We have very limited staff at the ILPC and Turtle Talk, and as we ramp up for our students to return and plan our awesome conference, we appreciate your kindness and patience. We receive between 25-35 announcements weekly, and there will be (the rare) week when we may not be able to get the Friday post done due to other obligations. There is also the possibility we will simply miss something. In addition, we don’t go back and pull down old job posts when they expire–we simply don’t have the capacity for that.
We appreciate your help in making the Turtle Talk Friday job posting service possible for all the lawyers out there looking for Indian Country jobs!
Thanks,
Kate Fort
Joy Harjo Named U.S. Poet Laureate
Now Harjo has a chance to offer that medicine to the whole nation. Today she was appointed 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. As a member of the Muscogee Nation, she will be the first Native American to serve in that honorary position when she begins this fall.
Congratulations to Eric Hemenway, Winner of Michigan Humanities Award
Humanities Champion of the Year: This award is given to the person whose contributions result in outstanding public humanities impact in their community and in our state. An example would be humanities person (teacher, librarian, cultural leader) who has creatively and successfully brought humanities to the public forum. Faculty and scholars who have taken humanities to the public beyond their classroom, or brought the public into their classroom. 2019 Award Winner: Tie: Charles Ferrell, of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and Eric Hemenway, of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
Washington State Bar Association Indian Law Section CLE Friday
The live auditorium is full, but register for the overflow room here: https://www.mywsba.org/PersonifyEbusiness/Default.aspx?TabID=1356&productId=16363219
Washington State Bar Association Indian Law Section CLE May 10
WSBA Indian Law Section’s CLE will be May 10 in Seattle. A pdf of the agenda is here: ILS CLE Agenda – 2019 To register, click here.
