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Child Welfare Evidence Training at Pascua Yaqui Tribe in March

January 19, 2016Sarah M Donnelly

Link to details and registration form here.

No charge for the seminar. Selected participants are responsible for their own airfare, accommodations, and meals.

Child Welfare Evidence Training will be repeated in three other venues regionally in 2016, as organized by the federal government. Current venues for future training include Montana and Michigan. One other site is to be determined in the southern region.

All applications must be submitted by FEBRUARY 12, 2016 to Mercedes Garcia at mercedes.garcia@pascuayaqui-nsn.gov. Participants will be notified by FEBRUARY 15, 2016, regarding their selection.

First Aboriginal Woman Appointed as Dean of Canadian Law School

January 14, 2016Sarah M Donnelly1 Comment

Link to Globe and Mail article here.

Excerpt:

Angelique EagleWoman was appointed this week as dean of Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, a position she’ll take up in May, a month before the fledgling Thunder Bay, Ont., law school’s first class is set to graduate.

EagleWoman, who currently teaches law at the University of Idaho College of Law, said she was drawn in part by Lakehead’s mandatory first- and second-year courses in aboriginal law.

2016 NNALSA Moot Court Request for Judges

January 14, 2016February 22, 2016Sarah M Donnelly

Link to announcement here.

Link to registration here.

This year’s competition is March 5-6 at Michigan State College of Law.

University of Arizona’s 4th Annual Tribal Lands Conference Coming January 25-26

January 13, 2016Sarah M Donnelly

Final conference announcement here.

Previous coverage here.

This year’s conference is focused on the American Indian Probate Reform Act of 2004.

Fall 2015 Publication of Seattle University’s American Indian Law Journal

January 8, 2016Sarah M Donnelly2 Comments

Masthead
Protecting Victims of Domestic Assault: Upholding the Use of Uncounseled Tribal Court Domestic Assault Convictions to Establish Federal Habitual Domestic Assault Charges	Joanna Adu
The Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States-Mexico Border	Peter Heidepriem
The Binding Guidance Principle: Using the Indian Trust Doctrine to Trump the APA	John Robinson Jr.
A Streamlined Model of Tribal Appellate Court Rules for Lay Advocates and Pro Se Litigants	Gregory D. Smith
Defining the Indian Civil Rights Act’s “Sufficiently Trained” Tribal Court Judge	Jill Elizabeth Tompkins
Endangered Species, Endangered Treaties: Protecting Treaty Rights, Economic Development, and Tribal Consultation Under Secretarial Order 3206	Jeremy Wood

Read the entire issue here (PDF).

Federal Court Dismisses Suit by Oklahoma Student Denied Request to Wear Eagle Feather at Graduation

January 7, 2016Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here is the opinion in Griffith v. Caney Valley Public Schools (N.D. Okla.):

42 DCT Order

Briefs here.

Indigenous Summer Intensive

January 6, 2016Sarah M Donnelly

This May, the University of Victoria Law School is running a month-long Summer Intensive in Indigenous Law and Comparative Indigenous Legal Issues. Both Val Napoleon and John Borrows are teaching.

They accept other law professors, for-credit students, as well as students/lawyers who may want to audit the courses.

There are different application deadlines for credit vs. non-credit students. Here is the information:

http://www.uvic.ca/law/about/indigenous/indigenoussummerintensive.php

Here is an example of work from the Indigenous Law Research Unit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uNgq7raxk4

Please feel free to write Val Napoleon, John Borrows, or Janet Person, the admissions officer, if you have any questions (1-250-721-8155).