Education
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.
Briefs in Oklahoma Eagle Feather Graduation Case
Here are the materials in Griffith v. Caney Valley Public Schools (N.D. Okla.):
Save the Date: 4th Annual Tribal Lands Conference
Link to announcement here.
Registration open for the University of Arizona College of Law’s 2-day conference in January.
Save the Date: N. Scott Momaday at U-M
The Inaugural Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Lecture
in Native American Studies
An Evening with N. Scott
Momaday
Friday, March 11, 2016
6:00 – 7:30 PM
Michigan League Ballroom
Reception to follow lecture
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Native American scholar, and poet N. Scott Momaday has been hailed as “the dean of American Indian writers” by the New York Times. He crafts — in language and imagery — majestic landscapes of a sacred culture.
Named a UNESCO Artist for Peace and Oklahoma’s poet laureate, he was also a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Arts, presented by President George W. Bush. Momaday was the first Native American to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, House Made of Dawn, widely considered to be the start of the Native American Renaissance. His most recent volume, Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems, was released in 2011.
His other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the “Mondello,” Italy’s highest literary honor. His works include The Way to Rainy Mountain, The Names: A Memoir, The Ancient Child, and a new collection, Three Plays, which celebrates Kiowa history and culture. He was featured in the Ken Burns documentary, The West, that showcased his masterful retelling of Kiowa history and mythology.
For more information, contact Scott Lyons, Director of Native
American Studies at U-M (lyonssr@umich.edu).
Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. (1931-2012) was an historian and a leading scholar in the field of Native American studies. The author of many influential books, including The White Man’s Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present (1978), Berkhofer taught at Michigan from 1973-1991. This annual lecture on Native American Studies honors his work and legacy.
Guardian Series on America’s Poorest Towns Includes Gila River
Link to article here.
New University of North Dakota Nickname!
They’re the Flickertails Fighting Hawks.
Here is “After Decades of Hand-Wringing, U. of North Dakota Has a New Nickname.”
Menominee Tribe Files Complaint Against DEA and DOJ
Doc. 1 – Complaint for Declaratory Judgment
Previous post concerning raid on the Menominee Indian Reservation here.
The Menominee Tribe is seeking a court decision on whether the Tribe’s college can grow hemp under its own law and under the Agricultural Act of 2014 (the current Farm Bill).
Turtle Talk 
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