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Education
MSU AISP’s 2016-2017 Pre-Doctoral Fellow Applications due Feb. 29
Announcement and application details here.
Applicants must be finished with all doctoral work, except the dissertation; actively working in American Indian Studies; and committed to a career in Indigenous Studies. It is expected that the Pre-doctoral Fellow will complete the dissertation during the award year. Applicants may be pursuing the PhD degree in any discipline or area offered at Michigan State University. The successful applicant will be required to teach one course and will affiliate with a department or program in one of the University’s colleges, as well as actively participate in activities of the American Indian Studies Program. The Fellow must reside in the East Lansing, Michigan area for the duration of the fellowship. Final award pending university budget approval.
Child Welfare Evidence Training at Pascua Yaqui Tribe in March
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
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
University of Arizona’s 4th Annual Tribal Lands Conference Coming January 25-26
Fall 2015 Publication of Seattle University’s American Indian Law Journal
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Federal Court Dismisses Suit by Oklahoma Student Denied Request to Wear Eagle Feather at Graduation
Here is the opinion in Griffith v. Caney Valley Public Schools (N.D. Okla.):
Briefs here.
Indigenous Summer Intensive
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).
“Chemawa Indian School unmarked graves”
From aljazeera here.
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