Here.
Additional coverage:
Indian Country Today
Washington Post
NY Times
Statement of Sen. Akaka
Press Release from NCAI
A personal favorite–Fem 2.0
“After all my reading I’m still loss as to why Republicans do not trust tribal courts.”
Here.
Additional coverage:
Indian Country Today
Washington Post
NY Times
Statement of Sen. Akaka
Press Release from NCAI
A personal favorite–Fem 2.0
“After all my reading I’m still loss as to why Republicans do not trust tribal courts.”
Here (h/t Pechanga). An excerpt:
Several Supreme Court justices seemed troubled Tuesday at the thought of letting a lawsuit move forward that aims to shut down an already opened tribal casino in southwestern Michigan.
“It does seem that we may be wasting our time,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said. “I’m not suggesting that the … case is moot, but you did wait for some three years before you brought this suit. The building was built.”
An excerpt:
(MONROE, WA) — This is one of those almost unbelievable stories that, if it were the plot of a movie script, no one would buy it. The story seems too far out there. It is also a story of the failure – not to mention the gullibility – of many in the news business, the TV business and the book-publishing world to sniff out a phony.
Some readers may be familiar with this story as the information in it is not new. But many younger readers likely have never heard the tall tale of a man named Asa.
It is the true tale of how a Ku Klux Klan man who once wrote speeches for the late segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace (until he thought Wallace had gone “soft” and sold out to liberals) who then later, as a reinvented “Native American” writer named Forrest Carter, was praised by Oprah Winfrey and others.
It is the stunning story of a man many might consider dangerous who, from all accounts, could shape shift himself at will into a new past, a new present and a new identity – of a non-white person of all things – and go on to become a best selling American writer.
It’s the saga of a man preaching a vision from a grand stage constructed from nothing but swamp gas and dime store illusions and how no one, from book publishers and editors to famous TV news people to print and TV interviewers caught on to his real identity.
He took them all down for the count in perhaps one of the greatest straight up con jobs ever pulled on the American media.
He got the fame, the money, success and easily carried off what con artists call “the long con.”
Here. An excerpt:
The case already has produced evidence that Thorpe — an athlete who piled up superlatives like so many sweat socks — must have had the wackiest funeral of all time.
Go back 59 years. At a feast on the night before Thorpe was to be buried on Sac and Fox tribal land in Oklahoma, his wife, Patsy, showed up with a hearse and police escort, loaded up the body and sped away down a dark rural road, leaving gaped mouths behind in the dust.
She put the burial rights out to the highest bidder, insisting only that the winning town change its name to Jim Thorpe.
Two worn out coal-mining boroughs in Pennsylvania took her up on the offer, though Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk may have been thinking about a name change anyway. They merged, became Jim Thorpe, Pa., and that is where the town’s namesake has been in a mausoleum since 1953.
Here.
Thanks to N.X.
Congrats!!!!
Here.
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MILS_Newsletter_Winter_2011-2012_Edition
Interesting articles on Jay Treaty border crossings and right to counsel in tribal courts. Oh, and MSU ILPC alum Erin McCormick.
An excerpt from the Star Tribune:
As the legislative session draws closer to an end, Allen is wrapping up her first season as the state’s first American Indian woman to serve in the Legislature. She’s made history on a national level, too — becoming the first openly gay American Indian woman to serve in any state legislature.
A tax attorney specializing in tribal law, Allen, DFL-Minneapolis, joined the Legislature after winning a special election on Jan. 10. She filled the House 61-B seat vacated by former Rep. Jeff Hayden, who is now a state senator.
Fellow lawmakers describe her as a thoughtful, gracious voice who doesn’t shy away from debates.
The post on her special election win is here.
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