Please join us for our third event in our Spring Speakers Series, a discussion with Prof. Barbara Atwood, author of Children, Tribes and States: Adoptions and Custody Conflicts Over American Indian Children. The Honorable Michael Petoskey and the Honorable Timothy Connors will be commenting on the book. The event will start at 11am with lunch in the Castle Board Room, and end by 1pm. No registration is necessary.
The Building Strong Sovereign Nations Tribal Governance Training Conference is quickly approaching. It’s happening on May 19th and 20th at the Odawa Casino Resort in Petoskey. Here’s a link to the registration page.
Knowing, Thinking and Doing – A Discussion on Doctrine, Theory, and
Practice in Indigenous Law and Education and the Clinical Experience:
local, regional and international perspectives
Sponsors:
UBC First Nations Legal Clinic, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law
Southwest Indian Law Clinic, University of New Mexico School of Law
The Tribal Law Practice Clinic, Washburn University School of Law
Description:
The Symposium is designed to facilitate discussion across doctrinal and clinical theories of Indigenous law and education. The goal is to create a pedagogy and to explore emerging methodologies for teaching how to work and practice in Indigenous communities. We invite an inclusive conversation with all community members who are engaged in Indigenous legal issues.
The Symposium begins with panel discussions on education between Indigenous legal theorists and clinicians and continues by sharing international and local perspectives. This will be followed by presentations from community lawyers and Aboriginal people engaged with current legal issues. The afternoon will conclude with a field trip to the First Nations legal clinic in the downtown eastside of Vancouver, and dinner at a local First Nations restaurant. Saturday morning begins with a breakfast presentation and tour of the Museum of Anthropology, with sessions continuing that focus on sharing clinical practical skills applications, student perspectives, innovations, and works in progress.
Registration Fee, $250.00 covers the entire Program, Museum tour and entrance, local transportation, materials and meals.
We are pleased to host this event on campus at UBC, situation on traditional Musqueam land
Accommodations have been arranged at the comfortable Triumf House on campus.
Website: http://www.triumfhouse.ca/
Here is the agenda: Agenda.
The National Center of American Indian Enterprise Development will be honoring Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoobsy with its American Indian Tribal Leadership Award at its annual economic summit and trade fair in Las Vegas. Others honored include David Melton, Clara Pratte, Kurt Luger, U.S. Senator Max Baucus, Kathy Meyer, Karen Jensen, and several entities. The summit and trade fair takes place today through March 17. More information is here.
Thursday night we will have a reception to welcome our guests at Brocach Irish Pub from 7:30 to 9:30 pm.
Welcome, Drum Ceremony and Prayer at 9:30 am, room 2260
Risky Investments? Tribal Debt & Finance After Wells Fargo v. Lake of Torches
9:45-11:15 am, room 2260
Aaron Harkins
Gavin Clarkson
Jeff Carey
Workers Rights Meet Tribal Sovereignty
11:15 am-12:30 pm, room 2260
Dawn Baum
D. Michael McBride
Kevin Wadzinski
ILSA and 25 Years of Federal Indian Law and Policy
Keynote by Larry Roberts, general counsel, NIGC
1:45-2:45 pm, room 2260
Dueling Sovereigns: Collecting Taxes in Indian Country
3-4:30 pm, room 2260
Brian Pierson
Jed Roher
Gabe Galanda
Anthony Broadman
Reception with special guest Edmund Manydeeds
5-7 pm, Law School Atrium
Mr. Manydeeds is a UW Law alumnus, civil trial attorney, and member of the UW Board of Regents. He has served on the governor’s Judicial Selection Committee and with the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
Looks like a wonderful program, and congrats to Christine!
David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, Robert Williams, and Matthew Fletcher are pleased to announce that the Sixth edition of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law will be available from West on March 25, 2011.
West’s webpage for the book is here.
You can see a preview of the dedication, preface, summary of contents, and table of contents on SSRN here.
Our webcast on “Teaching the Future of Indian Law” is here.
American Indian Studies Program
Academic Coordinator
General Summary
Responsible for providing program-wide support for undergraduate and graduate student affairs in the American Indian Studies Inter-departmental Program (AIS-IDP) including: supporting chair and faculty in the academic instructional program; curricular initiatives, and ongoing assessment of student learning outcomes. The position is responsible for academic advising and will work in collaboration with the Retention of American Indians Now (RAIN) project on the retention efforts for American Indian undergraduate and graduate students.
The Academic Coordinator will seek new ways to strengthen and coordinate campus/community partnerships in support of American Indian students and develop new strategies that respond to the ongoing needs of students.
Reporting to the Chair of the AIS-IDP, the Academic Coordinator oversees and implements a variety of academic and student support initiatives. In addition, the Academic Coordinator will meet regularly with the Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Advising, the Director of the American Indian Studies Center, and the Associate Vice Provost for Student Diversity. In addition, the Academic Coordinator will meet regularly with American Indian Student Association (AISA), RAIN, American Indian Recruitment (AIR), and with the UCLA American Indian Undergraduate Task Force.
The duties of the Coordinator include, but are not limited to, the following:
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