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More on Fletcher Talk at Traverse City History Center: Legends of the Grand Traverse Region

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Legend’s Grand Opening Announcement:

Don’t miss the exciting Grand Opening of “Legends of the Grand Traverse Region: Community out of Diversity.”  This celebration is on Saturday, Sept. 22nd from 4:00pm to 6:30pm at the History Center of Traverse City.  Attendees will tour the brand new Legends’ Exhibit, listen to the featured speaker, and then socialize at an elegant reception featuring adult beverages and tasty hors d’oeuvres. Admission is free, although good will offerings will be requested and are always appreciated!

The speaker is Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law, and member of the Grand Traverse Tribe of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.  He will be speaking on “The Story of the Grand Traverse Band’s Treaty Rights Fight.”

Professor Fletcher’s  talk is designed to complement our fall 2012 Legend’s Exhibit.  It highlights three of the “Legends” of the Traverse area: Art Duhamel of the Grand Traverse Band, well known for his stands regarding native fishing rights and federal recognition of the Grand Traverse Band; The Schaub family and their famous relative, Emelia Schaub, who was the first female prosecutor in Michigan; and Augusta Rosenthal-Thompson, who in 1884 arrived in northern Michigan as the first woman physician to practice in this area.

The Legends’ exhibit will be open through October 25th.  That Thursday this fall’s Legends’ activities will close with an afternoon workshop and evening presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Faue, Professor of American History and the History of Women at Wayne State University. The afternoon workshop is on genealogy and “Lost Mothers.”  The evening talk is entitled: “Barriers and Gateways:  Women, Gender, and the Professions in the United States.”

Don’t miss this opening celebration of the Legends of the Grand Traverse Region. These fall 2012 Legends events are only an introduction to continuing Legends activities.  Over the next several years we will celebrating more Legends: People and families from diverse backgrounds who came together to build the community we live in today. Our next three Legends will be celebrated starting in March of 2013, with more Legends being announced in Fall of 2013, Spring of 2014, and hopefully far into the future.

The History Center of Traverse City thanks the Michigan Humanities Council for its crucial support of the Legends’ project.  We also thank our Legends’ partners: The Grand Traverse Genealogical Society, the Northwest Lower Michigan Women’s History Project, Congregation Beth El, the Hispanic Apostolate of the Diocese of Gaylord, the Traverse City Human Rights Commission, Professor Jim Press of Northwestern Michigan College’s History Department, and Cindy Patek of the Grand Traverse Tribe’s Eyaawing Museum and Cultural Center

Fletcher Talk at Traverse City History Center This Saturday

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

I will be discussing my book “The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.” 

Postcard here (RSVPs encouraged):

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Center for Environmental Law & Policy to Honor Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Ann Tweedy

The event will be on June 13 in Seattle.  More information is here.  Charles Wilkinson will be speaking.

Coverage of the 44th Annual Dakota Conference in the Argus Leader

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Here are some links to articles on, and photos of, the 44th Annual Dakota Conference that was held this weekend at Augustana College.  The theme was Wounded Knee 1973.  Unsurprisingly, Russell Means’ comments and keynote address got the most coverage.  The highlight for me was a panel on Native Women’s role in Wounded Knee, which included presentations by Professor Elizabeth Castle, Marcella Gilbert, and Danyelle Means.  I also really enoyed a talk by Professor Emerita Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and a talk and poetry reading by Allison Hedge Coke and Renee Sans Souci.  Finally, a panel discussion by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and Senator James Abourezk was very illuminating, as was a talk by journalist Kevin McKiernan, who covered the occupation from the inside for NPR. 

Articles

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012304280008

http://www.argusleader.com/viewart/20120429/NEWS/304290038/Means-lashes-out-during-look-back-AIM

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012304280010

Photos
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=df&Date=20120427&Category=news&ArtNo=204270804&Ref=ph&Item=0&odyssey=mod|mostpopphotos

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Thelda Perdue to Lecture on Indian Lands and the SCT at the Supreme Court Historical Society

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Details from the site:

November 14, 2012 | 6:00 PM
The History of Native American Lands
and the Supreme Court
Professor Theda Perdue
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

44th Annual Dakota Conference Happening April 27 & 28

Ann Tweedy

The theme is Wounded Knee 1973: 40 years later. The conference will be April 27-28 and is a project of the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD. The program is here. Here’s the link for registration.

J.R. LaPlante to Keynote South Dakota Tribal-State Relations Law Conference — April 12-13, 2012

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Talk tomorrow at Hamline on Tribes and Civil Rights

Ann Tweedy

Anyone in the Twin Cities is invited to come to Hamline University Law School tomorrow at noon to hear Federal Magistrate Judge Brisbois (who is a White Earth descendant) and I talk about Indians and civil rights. Details below.

Friday, March 23, noon, Room 101

American Indians and Civil Rights: Magistrate Judge Leo Brisbois and Professor Ann Tweedy

(Faculty host: Cathy Deal)

CLE is applied for

Ted White on Indians in American History

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From the Faculty Lounge:

Here’s a link to a panel discussion of G. Edward White’s Law in American History: From the Colonial Era Through the Civil War, which was held at UVA Law School back on February 22. The speakers are Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Fred Konefsky, and John Witt. Tomiko and Fred have a number of observations about White’s methodology (in particular his contrast with Lawrence Friedman’s law and society approach and Tomiko is particularly interested in Native American ideas about law and their contact with European Americans and also the role of the law in the development of capitalism) and John asks some meta questions about why we do legal history (and he hypothesizes what White might be doing here). All of this reminds me that I want to talk soon about what why I write legal history and also about what we’re increasingly calling applied legal history. And also what role law has as a form of technology that’s used to implement basic desires and why others see law as more of an independent variable that controls us and what we do. There’s a lot to talk about here and I hope that at some point Tomiko’s, Fred’s, and John’s papers appear somewhere, to extend the conversation.

Upcoming Talk in St. Paul on Practice in Tribal Courts

Ann Tweedy

Professor (and Tribal Judge) Mary Jo Hunter and I will be speaking on practicing in tribal courts at the Minnesota Lavender Bar Association Conference this Saturday. Here’s the full agenda. CLE credit is available.