Announcements

NARF’s 40th Anniversary Conference

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From NARF:

Friday, October 29, 2010 – Saturday, October 30, 2010

Location: Chickasaw Nation’s WinStar World Casino

Address:
Exit 1, Interstate 35
Thackerville, OK 73459 

NARF- 40 YEARS of INDIAN LAW FORUM
Friday, October 29, 2010
8:30 AM-4:30 PM

This forum will highlight four decades of Indian law and NARF’s role. We will examine current concerns and challenges within each of NARF’s priority areas and their impact on Indian law. Utilizing the tribal leaders and attorneys attending, in each priority area we will craft a shared vision for the future direction for that issue of Indian law. Each session will end with strategic outlines for how NARF can address each issue for the next 40 years.

 

 

FBA 2010 Mid-Year Conference Agenda

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here: FBA Fall 2010 Agenda

Keynote Speaker: Patricia Millett, Partner and Co-Chair of the Supreme Court Practice, AkinGump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Conference co-chairs: Katie Morgan, Associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP and Bryan Newland, Policy Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for IndianAffairs, Department of Interior

UCLA American Indian Studies Academic Coordinator

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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 providing strategic direction for retention efforts of American Indian students, in partnership with Retention of American Indians Now (RAIN).  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 Assistant 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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MSU NALSA Art Fair, Call for Artists

Kate Fort

The Native American Law Student Association (NALSA) at Michigan State University College of Law will be hosting a 1st Annual Art Fair on Friday, January 21, 2011. The purpose of the Art Fair is to showcase the art of area American Indian Artists as well as kick off a silent auction that will raise money for NALSA students to attend the Federal Bar Association’s Annual Indian Law Conference held near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Art Fair will go from 9am until 4pm and be held in the Castle Boardroom of the Law School Building. We will publicize the event across the campus as well as throughout Lansing and nearby communities.

NALSA is not asking for money from the artists, but we are instead asking that the artist donate something they’ve made that we can use for a silent auction that will begin on the January 21st and run approximately a week.

If you are interested in being a part of the fair (or for more information) please email nalsalaw@msu.edu by November, 15, 2010.

Stanford Law Panel on Tribal Constitutions — This Saturday

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

If you’re in Palo Alto, check it out. From the Shaking the Foundations conference website (thanks to Tom Pack):

Date, Time and Location

October 16, 2:15-3:45 PM (Room 280B)

Panel Description

Several major U.S. Tribes are considering the adoption of new tribal constitutions while many more are unhappy with their 1930s-era Indian Reorganization Act tribal constitutions. These largely cookie-cutter constitutions were often coercively adopted and have resulted in varying degrees of success and failure. This panel will explore how tribes can take advantage of the process of developing tribal constitutions to advance tribal sovereignty, to enhance self-determination, and to improve cultural connections between tribal governments and tribal citizens. Best practices in constitution- making, pitfalls to be avoided, and the limits of the tribal constitution as a tool will also be discussed.

Speakers

  • Carole Goldberg (Panel Moderator), Jonathan D. Varat Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
  • Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Angela Riley, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

 

Indian Law Resource Center Fellowship Opportunities for Summer 2011

Kirsten Matoy Carlson

The Indian Law Resource Center is a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to providing legal advice, assistance, and representation to Indian tribes and indigenous communities throughout the Americas. We are also committed to developing new attorneys in the fields of Indian law and international human rights law.

To this end, we offer several fellowship and clerkship opportunities in both our Helena, Montana and Washington, D.C. offices. These fellowship and clerkship opportunities require a minimum eight week commitment and entail legal research and writing on major Indian rights issues related to current projects of the Indian Law Resource Center. The Lewis and Sidley Fellowships both offer a stipend of $3,000 for the term of the Fellowship. Applicants are welcome to supplement this stipend with additional financial support through their law school’s public interest programs or through other public interest scholarships.

. The John D.B. Lewis Fellowship is a competitive fellowship awarded each year to a law student who shows particular promise for a career in international indigenous human rights issues.

. The Terrance A. Sidley Fellowship is a competitive Fellowship awarded each year to a law student who shows particular promise for a career in federal Indian law and international indigenous human rights issues.

. A limited number of unpaid, competitive legal clerkships are also available. Applicants for these clerkships are encouraged to seek their own financial support through their law school’s public interest programs or through other public interest scholarships.

About the Indian Law Resource Center:

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Student Forum on Fort Lewis College Tuition Waiver Legislation

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alray Nelson, (970) 403-6953

September 17, 2010 Student Body President

STUDENT FORUM ON FEDERAL LEGISLATION AFFECTING THE REIMBURSEMENT TO FORT LEWIS COLLEGE FORTHE NATIVE AMERICAN TUITION WAIVER

DURANGO, CO– Fort Lewis College students and other stakeholders are invited to a student-led forum at the Fort Lewis College Native American Center on Thursday, October 7, 2010 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm.

“Is it not our responsibility, regardless of the academic field in which we have been trained, to make every effort to produce a more decent and educated electorate, a more humble and sincere political leadership, a morally alert and concerned citizenry?” – Robert A. Corrigan, Past Chair of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and make recommendations on the federal legislation pending in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate concerning Native American Tuition Waiver funding for out-of-state Native students at Fort Lewis College. The general public is encouraged to attend.

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TODAY: ILPC Seventh Annual Conference — Persuasion and Ideology: Political Divisive Cases in Appellate Courts

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Registration here.

Conference description and preliminary agenda here.

NAICJA Annual Meeting Agenda — Oct. 26-28, 2010

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
The 2010 National American Indian Court Judges Association Annual Meeting agenda here: NAICJA Agenda
On-line registration is here.

ACLU/Lewis & Clark Law School Panel on TLOA and Indian Women

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The L&C Law School ACLU student group will be hosting the ACLU NW Civil Liberties Conference October 29-30, 2010 at Lewis & Clark Law School. One of the panels we have scheduled is “Access to Justice for Native American Women and Alaska Native Women” and will include the following panelists:

*Barbara Creel, Associate Professor of Law, The University of New Mexico School of Law
*Troy A. Eid, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, Former United States Attorney for the District of Colorado
*Diane J. Humetewa, Of Counsel, Squire Sanders Public Advocacy Worldwide, Former United States Attorney for the District of Arizona
*Robert J. Miller, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
*Tawna Sanchez, Director of Family Services, Native American Youth and Family Center
*David A. Voluck, Attorney and Chief Judge of the Sitka Tribe of Alaska Tribal Court

Conference flier here: ACLUFlier