The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking applications for funding to support an exploratory study on the domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking implications of the oil industry across communities in the Dakotas and Montana.
Research proposed may be focused at the Federal, State, local, and/or tribal levels.
Information on this opportunity here.
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Description:
This notice proposes procedures for an Indian tribe to request designation as a participating tribe under section 204 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended, on an accelerated basis, pursuant to the voluntary pilot project described in section 908(b)(2) of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (“the Pilot Project”), and also proposes procedures for the Attorney General to act on such a request. This notice also invites public comment on the proposed procedures and solicits preliminary expressions of interest from tribes that may wish to participate in the Pilot Project.
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The Science, Practice & Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems Conference
Where: Kellogg Center in East Lansing, MI
When: Friday and Saturday, January 17 and 18, 2014
The 2014 Science, Practice & Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems conference will focus on Field and Place Based Conservation – Applying Techniques That Work at the Community Level.
Field and Place Based Conservation can make real and sustainable positive changes in our natural world. We must set the goals for our conservation actions by standards that are meaningful and significant to our local communities. Building our work around established social, cultural and economic goals makes caring for our natural resources a plan that’s easier to support, whether through time, dollars, votes, or goodwill. Furthermore, it’s by bringing together different people and multiple organizations in collaborative conservation at a local level that we facilitate the global adoption of community-based action, resulting in widespread improvement to lands and waters we all care about.
http://www.stewardshipnetworkconference.org/site/c.biKRJ8NPInI4F/b.8527791/k.3E52/2014_Overview.htm
Conference Proposal: Alternative Sovereignties
Call For Papers
“Alternative Sovereignties: Decolonization Through Indigenous Vision and Struggle”
To be held at the University of Oregon, May 9, 2014.
The concept of “sovereignty” as both an international political norm and expression of cultural distinctiveness and political autonomy is central to American Indian and First Nations discourse in the United States and Canada. Yet this language is often an imperfect reflection of the goals that tribal nations seek to pursue, suggesting rigid political and social boundaries around and within indigenous nations. This stands in stark contrast to political relationships based in tribal epistemologies that acknowledge social flexibility, interdependence, reciprocity and non-coercive, respectful relationships between and within national communities.
This conference will explore both “alternative sovereignties” and “alternatives to sovereignty” that might better meet the political, cultural and social aspirations of American Indian and First Nations communities. We are especially interested in the relationship between vision and struggle. “Vision” theorizes alternative forms of sovereignty that might better reflect the social and political goals of American Indian and First Nations. “Struggle” interrogates the rhetorical, representational and discursive strategies necessary to pursue these visions within adversarial cultural and political environments still defined by colonial power.
Potential questions for investigation the following: What might visions of “alternative sovereignties” or “alternative to sovereignty” look like? What values, hopes and aspirations would they express? In what ways do such visions align or exist in tension with contemporary expressions of the nation, sovereignty, self-determination and human rights both in Indian Country and beyond? What forms of contemporary political and social struggle will best allow Native peoples to develop and advance tribal visions that might substantively revise or intervene in non-tribal fields of power and knowledge? Finally, what are the theoretical and practical relationships between “vision” and “struggle,” and what role does Indigenous cultural and intellectual production serve in advancing these efforts? Reflecting the interdisciplinarity of Native Studies, the conference is committed to conversation across historical periods and academic and institutional boundaries, including literature, law, philosophy, cultural studies, political science, education, anthropology, history and the arts.
Please send brief proposals of no more than 300 words to alternative.sovereignties@gmail.com by September 1, 2013. Also include brief biographical information, including for example academic affiliation, primary area of research, and relevant experience. Applications from the broader Northwest or dealing with issues relevant to Northwest indigenous nations are especially welcomed. For questions, please contact the conference organizers at the address above.
This position will function as the Chief Executive Officer of Tribal Government under the direction of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribal Council. The incumbent ensures effective and efficient management of governmental functions and programs, acts as a governmental liaison with other agencies and performs all other duties delegated by the Council in order to accomplish administrative and organizational goals. Manages business growth, new operational and business initiatives, programs, projects, financial objectives, cultural changes and business goals for government operations as defined by the Tribal Council.
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Phone Forum for Indian Tribal Settlement Taxes
Date: June 26, 2013
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern Time
What: During this 60 minute presentation we will cover the federal income taxation of:
• Settlement payments in the Cobell case
• Settlement payments covered in Notice 2013-1
• Payments made in response to discrimination claims in the Keepseagle case
Click here to register for this phone forum (AT&T link). Please register as soon as possible because space is limited.
If you already have questions regarding the issues we plan to cover, please email to us at: tege.itg.askus@irs.gov. Please use the subject line: Indian Tribal Settlement Phone Forum. We will attempt to address your questions during the forum.
We look forward to the opportunity to serve you on June 26th.
The “Walking With Our Sisters” project will be wrapping up and beginning its journey across Canada and possibly into the United States in just over a month (it is currently booked through the beginning of 2018), but there is still time to participate for anyone interested.
If you are not familiar with this project, here is a description from project founder Christi Belcourt:
“Walking With Our Sisters” A Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the United States.
Although statistics in the U.S. are not available at present, In Canada, it is estimated that 600+ native women have gone missing or have been murdered in the last 20 years. Many have vanished without a trace with little to no concern paid by the media, the general public or politicians. This is a travesty of justice.
600+ moccasin tops are being created by hundreds of caring and concerned people to create one large collaborative art piece that will be installed for the public in various galleries and sites. They will be installed in a winding path of beaded vamps on cloth over a gallery floor. Viewers would need to remove their shoes to walk over the cloth and walk along the path. The exhibit is currently booked to tour across Canada and perhaps into the United States.
This project is about these women, paying respect to their lives and existence on this earth. They are not forgotten. They are sisters, mothers, daughters, cousins, grandmothers. They have been cared for, they have been loved, and they are missing.
A recording of traditional honour songs will also be created for the audio portion of the installation. A separate call to traditional singers anywhere in Turtle Island has gone out.
The due date for work is July 15, 2013. Mailed to Christi Belcourt, P.O. Box 5191, 133 Barber St., Espanola, ON, P5E 1A0. Send all work by a traceable package (Expedited, Registered, Express Post, etc.)
Donations towards the purchase of cloth, tobacco, shipping costs and other expenses directly related to the exhibit tour can be made by e-transfer to wwos@live.ca. Or directly to TD Canada Trust. Checks or money orders can be made out to Walking With Our Sisters and mailed.
All the work for the project is being done 100% by volunteers. No one is being paid for this work.
Link to the Facebook page for more information here.
ILTF is pleased to announce that Matthew Fletcher, Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law, will be presenting at the June 11th Native Land Law CLE. Professor Fletcher will be discussing treaties.
Professor Fletcher recently published the sixth edition of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (Thomson West 2011) with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams and American Indian Tribal Law (Aspen 2011), the first casebook for law students on tribal law. Fletcher’s book, The Return of the Eagle: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, was released by Michigan State University Press in 2012. Professor Fletcher has published articles with Arizona Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Hastings Law Journal, University of Colorado Law Review, Houston Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and many others. He is the primary editor and author of Turtle Talk, the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy.
The Native Land Law CLE series provides an overview of the 17 legal principles outlined in the legal treatise, Native Land Law: General Principles of Law Relating to Native Lands and Natural Resources, and offers analysis of federal laws and policies that impact the field of Indian law today. Professor Fletcher will offer his own insights into the significance of treaties during this month’s two-hour program.
The CLE will be offered from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, June 11th.
Click here to learn more about the CLE and register for the program. http://www.iltf.org/native-land-law.
All of the previous CLE programs offered as part of the Native Land Law Series are available on demand. To view Professor Colette Routel’s presentation on the Fundamentals of Policy and History or Professor Lindsay Robertson’s presentation on the Discovery Doctrine, Plenary Power & Termination, visit us at http://www.iltf.org/native-land-law.
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