Announcements

Conference Announcement: 20 Years of the IGRA

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In addition to the conference, they are hoping to honor four people who have worked positively for Indian gaming over the past 20 years. More details on that aspect below the conference information.

Indian Country’s Winning Hand: 20 Years of the IGRA (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act) CLE Conference

October 16-17, 2008

Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino in Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, AZ

A balanced twenty-year retrospective of the successes, failures and impact of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988. This commemorative conference will examine the history and the impact of the IGRA and the Indian gaming industry through the eyes of tribal leaders, scholars and those who were there when the IGRA became law. Sponsored by the NCAI, NIGA, Arizona and New Mexico Indian Gaming Assns, CNIGA, American Indian Law Center, Inc., the Native Nations Law & Policy Center at UCLA, and the Indian Legal Program and American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), a commemorative conference entitled: “Indian Country’s Winning Hand: 20 Years of IGRA” and a Pathbreakers Banquet will be held at the Radisson Fort McDowell Resort & Casino in Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, Arizona on October 16-17, 2008. The Pathbreakers Banquet, on the evening of Thursday, October 16, 2008, will recognize and honor the outstanding contributions and achievements of four individuals whose work has positively impacted Indian gaming over the last twenty years.

If you know someone who you would like to nominate to be honored, please visit the conference website at http://ilp.law.asu.edu/banquets.html and complete a Pathbreakers nomination form. We welcome all nominations of individuals. Nomination deadline is June 15, 2008. Please Spread The Word to your colleagues and join us to honor the Indian Country’s Pathbreakers.

Visit http://www.law.asu.edu/ILP for complete conference information online

Website: ILP.law.asu.edu
Contact: Darlene Lester

Phone: 480-965-7715

Email: darlene.lester@asu.edu

Registration for 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference

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Registration for the ILPC’s 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act, is now available online here.

Program for Society for the Study of Midwest Literature 2008 Annual Meeting

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The annual meeting for the Society for the Study of Midwest Literature will be here at MSU beginning Thursday May. The program can be downloaded here. The events are in the MSU Union.

Highlights include:

Thursday

Session C — 4-5:30 PM — Parlor B — Law and Literature

Mae Kuykendall and Renee Knake of MSU law college will be presenting on this panel

Friday

Session G — 1:30-3 PM — Parlor C — Fiction Reading

Me!!! [right before I have to run off to make the law college graduation ceremony]. I’ll be reading from a short story called “Parker Roberts” (parker-roberts).

Saturday

Session K — 10:30-Noon — Gold Room B — Law and Literature

Fred Baker, Jr. on Justice Voelker and “An Anatomy of An Anatomy of a Murder”

Second Indian Law Clinic/Externship Program Symposium — Call for Proposals

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From Christine Zuni Cruz:

Deadline — May 1, 2008

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Northwest Tribes Climate Change Conference

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Climate Change in the Northwest

“Tribal Perspectives”

Date and Location:

May 29-30, 2008 (Thursday and Friday)

Public Library Downtown

Microsoft Conference Room

Call the directly to confirm your lodging no later than April 24, 2008, at 1-800-945-2240, and mention the Tribal Climate Change Conference.

For more information, please contact Pat Gonzales-Rogers at (503) 231-6123 or Pat_Gonzales-Rogers@fws.gov. (Pat is the Tribal Liaison for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 1).

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Call for Papers — Living Treaties Anishinaabe Summit

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The presence of the US/Canada Border is a fact of life for Aboriginal People. It is also a simple fact of life that Indigenous people along the border have established their relationship with both US and Canadian governments through Treaty, and those Treaties affect people along the border in profound ways.

As “treaty rights” are continually challenged in the courts, the courts are given opportunities to continually “re-interpret” these treaties.  Thus it is important to explore these treaties and related issues in some depth.  To that end, The Anishinaabeg Joint Commission (Batchewana First Nation, Bay Mills Indian Community, Garden River First Nation, and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Indigenous Border Issues, is issuing a Call For Papers for the Living Treaties Anishinaabeg Summit. The gathering will be held August 13 – 15, 2008, at the Sault Tribe Conference and Convention Center in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

The primary objective of this gathering is to bring together Tribal Elders, Traditional Knowledge Keepers, Tribal historians, college and university faculty and students, land claims researchers, Government officials (US, Canadian, Tribal), and Indigenous Community members so that we can all benefit from a thorough discussion and understanding of the role that Treaties play in the lives of Native Peoples along the US/Canada border.

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Careers in Indian Law — TODAY

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Today, we’re delighted to host Trent Crable and Jeff Davis at the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. They will be speaking on Careers in Indian Law

Trent is a member of the Makah Nation. He graduated from Michigan Law School in 2005 and, until he relocated to Chicago, he worked for Morisett, Schlosser, Jozwiak, and McGaw, a Seattle law firm specializing in Indian Law.

Jeff is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan. Jeff is the tribal liaison for the W.D. Mich.

We’ll be in the Castle Board Room here at the law college. LUNCH is free.

Mother Earth Water Walk

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Two Anishinawbe Grandmothers, and a group of Anishinawbe Women and Men have taken action regarding the water issue by walking the perimeter of the Great Lakes.

Along with a group of Anishinabe-que and supports, they walked around Lake Superior in Spring 2003, around Lake Michigan in 2004, Lake Huron in 2005, Lake Ontario in 2006 and Lake Erie in 2007.

This year they are walking around Lake Michigan again, with the send off on April 26th in Manistee, Michigan.  For more information about the walk, click here.

AIM: Movement or Mafia?

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Interesting program hosted by MSU students, featuring Joseph and John Trimbauch, and Tim Giago. Commentary about Wounded Knee, “Incident at Oglala,” Leonard Peltier, Russell Means, and others. April 23 at the Kellogg Center.

Patrick O’Donnell’s Bibliography of American Indian Law

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Patrick S. O’Connell’s excellent resource is available at Ratio Juris (here).

Here is the text of the announcement:

American Indian Law Bibliography: Yes, Custer Died for Our Sins

Here is the bibliography for American Indian Law. What follows is meant to prod and provoke you, dear reader, to cultivate an ardent if only amateur interest in this domain of law as well as in the peoples to whom (in the first instance) it applies.

Easy knowledge about Indians is a historical tradition.
—Vine Deloria, Jr.

European explorers and invaders discovered an inhabited land.
—Francis Jennings
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