Announcements

Tides Foundation’s Indigenous People’s Fund Invites Grant Applications

Matthew L.M. Fletcher5 Comments

Posted on March 19, 2009
Deadline: April 8, 2009

Tides Foundation’s Indigenous People’s Fund Invites Grant Applications From Organizations Benefiting Women and Girls

The Tides Foundation is seeking general operating proposals from indigenous organizations working to preserve and enhance the rights, health, safety, and education of women and girls in native communities.

Applications will be accepted from nonprofit organizations. United States-based organizations must include the organization’s IRS determination letter. Non-U.S. organizations must provide government-issued documentation certifying that the organization is a non-governmental organization.

Grant awards will range from $15,000 to $40,000 each.

Visit the Tides Foundation Web site for further information and application procedures.

Primary Subject: Women
Secondary Subject(s): Education, Children and Youth, Human Services

LRB Natural Resources Internship Announcement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Aquatic Fisheries Intern (3 positions), Natural Resources Dept
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
375 River Street
Manistee, MI 49960

The full internship announcement is available at :
http://www.lrboi.com/hr/
and will only be posted there until 3/26

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Udall Foundation Awards 2009 — Press Release

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

News Release                                                                                 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Further Information Contact: Libby Washburn (520) 901-8506 or Colin Ben (520) 901-8568
Morris K. Udall Foundation Awards 2009 Native American Congressional Internships in Washington, D.C.

Terrence L. Bracy, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Morris K. Udall Foundation, has announced that 13 students from 10 tribes and 9 universities have been selected as 2009 Native American Congressional Interns. They were selected by an independent review committee of nationally recognized Native American educators and tribal policy leaders on the basis of demonstrated commitment to careers in tribal public policy and academic achievement.  The Foundation received a record number of applicants this year and this group of interns represents one of the strongest classes the Udall Foundation has seen since starting the program in 1996.

This highly regarded internship program is intended to provide Native Americans and Alaska Natives with an insider’s view of the federal government. The internship is located in Washington, D.C., and is known for placing Native students in competitive positions in Senate and House offices, committees, Cabinet departments and the White House, where they are able to observe government decision-making processes first-hand.

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Indian Law Resource Center/NCAI to Host Lunch on Human Rights Violations Against South American Indians

Kirsten Matoy Carlson

More than 1,244 indigenous people have been assassinated in Colombia in the past five years.  This persecution is not unique to Colombia.  It is part of an alarming trend of human rights violations against indigenous peoples in South America.  Indigenous rights to life, land, equality, natural resources, self-determination, and religious freedom are under attack.  A strong American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will help prevent human rights violations in the Americas.

The Indian Law Resource Center and NCAI will host a brown bag lunch highlighting these human rights abuses:

March 19, 2009, 1:00-2:30pm

NCAI Conference Room

1301 Connecticut Ave., NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

For more information, see the Center’s website, http://www.indianlaw.org/node/391.

CFP: Great Lakes History Conference 2009

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Indigenous Peoples of the Globe: Colonization and Adaptation Call for Papers: Great Lakes History Conference November 13 & 14, 2009

The 34th annual Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand Valley State University’s History Department, will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 13 & 14, 2009. The theme is “Indigenous Peoples of the Globe: Colonization and Adaptation”. Along with exchanging ideas and research, we also desire panels on innovative ways of teaching this year’s topic to students at every level. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), University of California, Santa Cruz, as a keynote speaker.

At the conference, we welcome individual papers and arranged complete panels, and encourage comparative work across regions and chronological boundaries, as well as innovative presentations, including workshops or moderated discussions. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract of approximately 200 words and your curriculum vitae to one of the e-mail addresses below. Please include your address, e-mail, and telephone number. The deadline for proposals is June 30, 2009. Those interested in commenting on a session should send a CV and indicate areas of expertise. Papers must take no longer than 30 minutes in a 2-paper session or 20 minutes in a 3-paper session. Sessions will last 90 minutes.

Conference headquarters will be at Grand Valley State University’s L.V. Eberhard Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Hotel accommodations will be available at the Days Hotel of Grand Rapids which is across from the L.V. Eberhard Center. The conference is within easy walking distance to museums and restaurants. Grand Rapids is served by most major and regional airlines.

Please share this information with your colleagues and students. Address all inquiries and abstracts to:

Dr. Matthew Daley, daleym@gvsu.edu
Dr. Scott Stabler, stablers@gvsu.edu

Kevin Washburn Named Dean at UNM

Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments

Holy cow!!!!

From UNM (via the Lounge):

Kevin WashburnThe University of New Mexico Provost Suzanne Ortega announced today that Kevin K. Washburn has been selected to lead the UNM School of Law as its newest dean and full professor of law. Washburn will begin his tenure at UNM on June 30, 2009.

Photo: Kevin K. Washburn was chosen dean at the UNM School of Law.

“Professor Washburn has deep roots in the New Mexico legal community and national experience in legal education. We are fortunate to have him return to the School of Law,” said Ortega.

An enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Washburn is the first American Indian to serve as the dean of UNM’s School of Law. He began his legal education at UNM at the American Indian Law Center’s summer program and later taught Indian law issues here as an adjunct professor.

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CU Conference: Native Americans, Race, and the Constitution

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Colorado Law is hosting a CLE on Indian law in conjunction with the NNALSA Moot Court competition.

Here is the agenda.

I’ll be presenting on the ethics of pushing the envelope in Indian law cases (paper here).

26th Annual MSU Powwow of Love

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

NAISO presents….

26th Annual MSU Pow-Wow of Love,
February 21st&22nd, 2009 at the Jenison Field House
Everyone Is Welcome And Encouraged To Attend!

Grand entries:

  • Saturday February 21st at 1:00pm and 7:00pm
  • Sunday February 22nd at 12:00pm
  • Doors open for the General Public at 10:00 am both days.

This event will host award-winning Native American traditional singing, dancing, and artwork from all over North America.
Powwow co-chairs:
Kathyrn Adams , trader/vendor chair (vendor contact)
Ashley Ryerse , hospitality chair (drum,dancer contact)
Marcus Winchester , advertising chair (advertising contact)
Garrett Faulk , funding chair

-Host Hotel- *Ask for Pow-wow Rates*
Howard Johnson East Lansing
1100 Trowbridge Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823 US

  • Click for More Info or call NAISO at: (517) 432-7153
  • Handicap services are available upon request from Pat Dyer-Deckrow at (517) 353-7745 at least 10 days in advance.

Michigan Indian Education Critical Issues Conference — Agenda and Registration

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the registration information and conference agenda for the 2009 MIEC Conference at the Soaring Eagle Inn and Conference Center, March 12-14.

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Jeff Davis (Turtle Mountain), 14-year veteran of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker.

I’ll be presenting a history of the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver at 8:30 on Friday. And I’ll be talking about ways to use my book (“American Indian Education”) in the classroom at 1 on Friday.

Justin Richland Talk Here–February 17, 2009–11 AM

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Justin Richland, a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, will be giving a talk about his new book from the University of Chicago Press — “Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court.” Here is the synopsis:

Arguing with Tradition is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. Grounded in Justin Richland’s extensive field research on the Hopi Indian Nation of northeastern Arizona—on whose appellate court he now serves as Justice Pro Tempore—this innovative work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence.

Like many indigenous legal institutions across North America, the Hopi Tribal Court was created in the image of Anglo-American-style law. But Richland shows that in recent years, Hopi jurists and litigants have called for their courts to develop a jurisprudence that better reflects Hopi culture and traditions. Providing unprecedented insights into the Hopi and English courtroom interactions through which this conflict plays out, Richland argues that tensions between the language of Anglo-style law and Hopi tradition both drive Hopi jurisprudence and make it unique. Ultimately, Richland’s analyses of the language of Hopi law offer a fresh approach to the cultural politics that influence indigenous legal and governmental practices worldwide.

The Chief Judge of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, JoAnne Cook-Gasco will be commenting on the book.