Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Tribal e-Commerce Legal Update Panel

February 13, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Conly Shulte, Jenn Weddle, Alex Skibine, and Saba Bazzazieh

Tribal e-Commerce Online Gaming Panel

February 13, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Richard Schuetz, Morden Lazarus, Tony Cabot, and Eric Eberhard

Tribal e-Commerce Panel on Protecting the Consumer

February 13, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Fletcher, Dama Brown, James Williams, Jr., Kate Spilde

Tribal e-Commerce Second Day Introduction

February 13, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Patty Ferguson-Bohnee

Skokomish Tribal Prosecutor Position

February 13, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Skokomish Indian Tribe is soliciting applications for a Tribal Prosecutor. This is a two year contract position, subject to renewal, with a contract rate of four thousand dollars ($4,000) per month. The contract requires the Tribal Prosecutor to be on site two days per week. The applicant also must be a member in good standing of a state or territorial bar association. Please send applications in Microsoft Word and/or Adobe Pdf format to: yoberly@skokomish.org.

New Scholarship on Jicarilla Apache Nation’s Water a Rights Brokering

February 13, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

The Promise of Indian Water Leasing: An Examination of One Tribe’s Success at Brokering Its Surplus Water Rights
Justin Nyberg 181

After reaching water rights settlements, a number of Native American tribes find themselves with rights to more water than their reservations or pueblo communities presently need. As climate change exacerbates drought conditions in the western United States and demand for water increases, some tribes have leased these surplus water rights to public and private, non-Indian, users. Theoretically, this could be a boon for tribes, although the extent of the economic impact of water leasing is difficult to assess without an examination of each individual water lease. This paper attempts to illustrate the economic impact of Indian water rights leasing anecdotally, by examining the leasing efforts of one particularly successful tribe, the Jicarilla Apache Nation in northern New Mexico.