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The 2021 Colorado Book Awards Finalist Celebration and Winners Announcement is right around the corner! This year we are delighted to honor Charles Wilkinson with the Colorado Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the Colorado and national literary, history, and legal communities. Writer, advocate, and distinguished university professor emeritus, Wilkinson is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Messages from Frank’s Landing and Blood Struggle—the Rise of Modern Indian Nations, winners of the 2000 and 2006 Colorado Book Awards respectively for History.

Charles earned his law degree from Stanford University in 1966. He moved to Colorado in 1971 to help found and serve as a Staff Attorney for the Native America Rights Fund and began teaching at University of Colorado in 1984, becoming the Moses Lasky Professor of Law in 1989. In 1997, he was named by the Regents of the University of Colorado a Distinguished Professor. In his over 32 continuous years at Colorado Law, Charles has become one of the most widely celebrated names in not only American Indian law, but also in the history of the American West, public land law, water law, and environmental law—even being labeled by Outside Magazine as “the West’s leading authority on natural resource law.”

Mark your calendars for an online evening of celebrating Colorado’s literary greatness!

June 26, beginning at 5 p.m. with a toast to the finalists, Colorado Book Award Winners will be announced and read briefly from their work. Charles Wilkinson will speak and read briefly in recognition of his lifetime achievement.

Learn more at coloradohumanities.org/programs/colorado-book-awards/

Thank you to our partner, BookBar Denver, and sponsors, Outskirts Press and The Colorado Sun.

Colorado Humanities is the only Colorado organization exclusively dedicated to supporting humanities education for adults and children statewide. Celebrating its 47th year and its 17th year as host for the Colorado Center for the Book, Colorado Humanities is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress Center for the Book, the Smithsonian Institution, and the national award-winning educational nonprofit Motheread, Inc. Colorado Humanities works with 100 program partners throughout the state to design and implement programs that best meet each community’s needs. Colorado Humanities’ goals are to improve education, strengthen cultural institutions, and enrich community life by inspiring the people of Colorado to explore ideas and appreciate our diverse heritage.

NYTs: “Training the Next Generation of Indigenous Data Scientists”

June 29, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Strict Scrutiny Podcast on the Yellen v. Chehalis Decision

June 26, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here. It’s near the end, but a lengthy, substantive discussion.

NYTs: “Leonard Crow Dog, Spiritual Leader at Wounded Knee, Dies at 78”

June 26, 2021June 25, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

National Indian Law Library Bulletin (6/23/2021)

June 24, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

The Native American Rights Fund is hiring. Learn more about the vacancies at the NARF website>

NARF also invites 3L law students, recent law school graduates, and those with judicial clerkships to apply for sponsorship for a post-graduate public interest fellowship. Skadden Fellowship deadline is July 9. Learn more>

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin

http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2020-2021update.html
One petition for certiorari was denied on 6/21/21:

Club One Casino v. Haaland (Jurisdiction)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2021.html

Big Sandy Rancheria Enterprises v. Bonta (Sovereign Immunity; Indian Taxation)
Backcountry Against Dumps v. Bureau of Indian Affairs (Trust Relationship; Cultural Resources)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2021.html

In the Matter of the Welfare of the Children of: B.M.S., T.J.R.T., and D.A.M. (Indian Child Welfare Act; Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act)

Tribal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/tribal/2021.html

Mayes v. Cherokee Nation Election Commission (Tribal Elections)
Morales v. Fort Peck Tribes (Tribal Law)

U.S. Legislation – 117th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/117_uslegislation.html

S.2071 – A bill to provide grants to States, territories, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and eligible Tribal entities to promote access to affordable, high-speed broadband and digital equity.
S.2092 – A bill to permanently authorize the Native Community Development Financial Institutions lending program of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
S.2167/H.R.4052 – A bill to establish a national, research-based, and comprehensive home study assessment process for the evaluation of prospective foster parents and adoptive parents and provide funding to States and Indian tribes to adopt such process.
S.2177 – A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to ensure sufficient bonding and complete and timely reclamation of land and water disturbed by Federal and Indian oil and gas production, and for other purposes.
H.R.4054 – To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat Indian tribal governments in the same manner as State governments for certain Federal tax purposes, and for other purposes.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2021.html

The sky will not fall in Oklahoma.
A coherent ethic of lawyering in post-McGirt Oklahoma.
Renewable energy depends on tribal sovereignty.
White tape and Indian wards: Removing the federal bureaucracy to empower tribal economies and self-government.
Hawai’i ’78: Collective memory and the untold legal history of the reparative action for Kānaka Maoli.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

Secretary Haaland announces federal Indian boarding school initiative
Yakama Nation celebrates ‘resounding victory’ for treaty lands
Navajo Nation disappointed in lack of Native Americans selected for New Mexico Citizen Redistricting Committee
Pueblo of Acoma signs 15-year agreement with Colorado energy company, makes plans to maintain its own utility
‘We’re just somebody little’: Amid plans to mine lithium deposit, Indigenous, rural communities find themselves at the center of the energy transition
South Dakota Native Homeownership Coalition celebrates upward trend in Native American homeownership during National Homeownership Month
‘Bring us your dreams.’ This Native-led fund aims to ‘decolonize philanthropy’ in the Northwest
There are many unmarked graves of Indigenous kids at US boarding schools too
Decolonize climate adaptation research
Indigenous women invite Deb Haaland to see devastation of Line 3 for herself
Juneteenth from a Black Indigenous perspective

NABA-DC Summer Programs

June 21, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Every summer, the Native American Bar Association – DC (NABA-DC) organizes events and programs for summer interns interested in the field of Indian law and policy. The NABA-DC programs include the Brownbag Program and Mentorship Program. Through each program, interns will be able to meet and engage with professionals currently working in DC on issues impacting Indian Country.

The Brownbag program provides summer interns an opportunity to attend lunches hosted by offices such as government agencies, law firms, and non-profit organizations. For more information on the NABA-DC Brownbag Program, please contact nabadcbrownbag@gmail.com.

The mentorship program provides summer interns an opportunity to engage one-on-one with professionals in the DC Indian Law community. For more information on the NABA-DC mentorship program, please contact nabadcmentorship@gmail.com.

Students and summer interns may sign-up to participate in the summer programs here: https://forms.gle/v3vXjtkcJnr3DSE3A

Indian Country Professionals may sign-up to volunteer as a mentor here: https://forms.gle/voueFjKZZCPfcset7