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ILPC Event: Hot Topics in Michigan — NAGPRA (Feb. 23)
Wisconsin Journal of Gender, Law & Society Symposium Agenda
Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society
Symposium
Law, Gender & Citizenship:
Contemporary Issues for American Indians and American Immigrants
March 5, 2010
Pyle Center • 702 Langdon Street • University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tentative Schedule; Subject to Change
4 hours CLE applied for; $60 in advance; $75 at the door • Online Registration Available Soon
8:30-8:45 Welcome
Hon. Amanda Rockman (Ho-Chunk)
Trial Court of the Ho-Chunk Nation
8:45-9:00 Introduction
Dan Lewerenz (Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska)
Symposium Editor, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society
9:00-9:50 The Indian Child Welfare Act and Same-Sex Couples: Whose Law Governs When a State Allows Adoption by Same-Sex Couples and a Tribe’s Does Not, and Vice Versa?
Michigan State Univ. Powwow This Weekend
NAISO would like to invite you to the 27th annual student Pow-wow at Jenison, Saturday, Feb.13 & Sunday Feb. 14. Gates open at 10 am there will be lots of vendors and Native foods available. If you have never been to a pow-wow you are in for a treat so come and join us. Admission is free for MSU students with ID or $1 for the general public. NAISO’s website for more information is www.msu.edu/~naiso
Building Strong Sovereign Nations SAVE THE DATE May 19-20, 2010
Registration here — now open.
South Dakota Indian Law Conference Tentative Agenda
USD Law and USD NALSA are hosting an Indian law conference next week. Here is the agenda.
Thursday, February 18
8:45am: Muffins and coffee in State Bar Room
9:00am: Marci Hamilton book signing (courtroom)
10:00am: Drum/prayer/first panel
1st Panel – Perspectives on Free Exercise Jurisprudence after Smith
Professor Marci Hamilton
Professor Mark Kende
Professor Chris Lund
Professor Rick Duncan
Moderated by Professor David Day
12:30pm lunch at Neuharth (approx. 35)
2:00pm second panel
2nd Panel – Religious Free Exercise Inside and Outside Indian Country
Professor Matthew Fletcher
Zackeree Kelin
Clint Kowan
Charles Grignon
Moderated by Professor Frank Pommersheim
5:30pm Dinner at Pro’s
7:00pm Dillon Lecture
Introduction by Frank Pommersheim
Professor Matthew Fletcher: Rebooting Indian Law in the Supreme Court
Followed by reception at law school
The National NALSA Moot Court competition begins the next day!
Prof. Fletcher to Deliver USD Dillon Lecture
From the Sioux City Journal:
USD Dillon Lecture to Address Indian Law
By Nick Hytrek Journal staff writer | Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:00 am |
VERMILLION, S.D. — Michigan State University law professor Matthew L.M. Fletcher will present the University of South Dakota’s annual Dillon Lecture, “Rebooting Indian Law in the Supreme Court.”
Fletcher’s lecture is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in the law school courtroom.
In addition to teaching courses on Indian law, Fletcher sits as an appellate judge for various tribes.
The Dillon Lecture is being presented in conjunction with the South Dakota Law Review Symposium, scheduled for 10 a.m. Feb. 18 in the law school courtroom. In addition to the symposium, USD’s Native American Law Students Association is hosting the 2010 National NALSA Moot Court Competition Feb. 19-20.
The Dillon Lecture is named for Charles Hall Dillon, a pioneer South Dakota lawyer and South Dakota Supreme Court justice who died in 1928.
Fletcher Talk before UCLA Critical Race Studies Program Today
I’ll be speaking at UCLA today about my book project tentatively titled, “Consent and Resistance: American Indians and Consent Theory.”
Here’s the flyer for the entire speaker series:
Turtle Talk 
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