Here is the Columbia NALSA moot court page.
And the direct link to the problem.
Student Activities
2010 Pre-Law Summer Institute Award Winners
Watch out for this group!
The winners of the book awards for 2010 are:
Overall Best Student: Tanner Amdur-Clark (Citizen Potawatomi)
Advocacy: Victoria Hatch (White Earth Ojibwe) and Aubony Burns (Oklahoma Choctaw)
Oralist: Katie Parker (Oklahoma Choctaw) and Lucas LaRose (Northern Cheyenne and Winnebago Tribe)
Indian Law: Matt Murdock (MHA Nation and Standing Rock)
Property: Tim Cornelius (Wisconsin Oneida)
Civil Procedure: Madison Simmons (Chickasaw)
National NALSA Job Fair: Aug. 26-27 in Denver
Here.
CIC-AIS Graduate Conference Prize Winners
Dear Colleagues:
Please spread the news that all three of the submitted prize winners at the recent graduate conference were women!!! FIRST PRIZE went to Nicole Marie Keway for her remarkable paper on Emerson: “The Piquancy of Particularity: Emersonian Savages and Speaking Beyond the Woods.” The SECOND PRIZE winner was Sandra Garner for “Rhetorics of Traditions: Troubling Tradition in the Lakota Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality” – Sandra is completing her degree at Ohio State University and will be at Miami University as a post-doc this fall. Finally, a law student, Adrea Korthase, received THIRD PRIZE for her work on the “Kennecott Eagle Mineral Project and the Need for a Michigan Religious Protection Act.”
To see these outstanding women, please go to our website — http://www.msu.edu/~cicaisc/ – you can see their pictures as well as many of the other participants. Conference planning, spearheaded by Susan Krouse, the director of the MSU AISP and her able assistant, Sakina Hughes, made this another memorable event. The University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Ohio State, and the University of Michigan added a tremendous variety of new scholarly approaches to the program – be sure to look at the program, which is on-line at our website.
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Director, CIC-AIS Consortium
Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program at UNM This Summer — Spaces Still Available!!!!
UNM School of Law Sponsoring An All-Expenses-Paid Pre-Law Summer Program
for Native American College Freshmen and Sophomores
The UNM School of Law, in conjunction with the American Indian Law Center, was awarded a grant through the Law School Admissions Council’s DiscoverLaw.org Plus Program to conduct a four-week pre-law program targeting undergraduate students at the end of their first or second year of college. Students will attend classes in the UNM School of Law. Students will engage in academic coursework focusing on Indian Law and Native legal issues, receive career and academic advising, learn more about the law school admission process, and receive mentoring by Native attorneys, judges, law school faculty, and students. The program will run from June 3 to July 6, 2010 on the UNM campus and applicants will come from all across the United States.
The program builds on a very successful pre-law program that has been running for 40 years at the University of New Mexico that is also a joint project between the School of Law and the American Indian Law Center. That program, which is geared toward students in the summer before they enter law school immediately, has helped the ranks of American Indian lawyers grow nationally from a handful to more than a thousand in the last several decades. This new DiscoverLaw.org PLUS program is intended to make a similar difference with a younger cohort to create a better pipeline to law school for American Indians.
UNM School of Law Dean Kevin Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw Nation and a graduate of one of the American Indian Law Center’s summer programs, credits the program with helping him complete law school and succeed in practice: “The Pre-Law Summer Institute at UNM gave me support and direction for what has been a very successful career in the law; I could not imagine my career without this seminal experience and I hope that others find their way through this new program.”
Michigan Indian Law Day Agenda (UPDATED) — April 2
University of Michigan NALSA
2010 Indian Law Day Schedule
Looking Inward: Tribal Governance
Blessing
1:00 – 1:10
Joseph Brave-Heart
Keynote Speaker
1:10 -1:40
Frank Ettawageshik
Former Tribal Chairman, Little Traverse Bay
Bands of Odawa Indians
Tribal Constitutions
1:45 – 2:25
Allie Maldonado, Assistant General Counsel,
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
Mike Phelan, Office of the General Counsel
Pokagon Band Potawatomi Indians
Tribal Courts
2:30 – 3:10
Prof. Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law
Amy Kullenberg, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
Break/Refreshments
3:10 – 3:25
Tribal Economic Diversification
3:25 – 4:05
Zeke Fletcher, Associate, Rosette & Associates
Prof. Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law
Dance for Mother Earth Powwow — April 10-11, Saline Middle School
Press Release – 2010 Powwow
ANN ARBOR, MI—For the second year in a row, the University of Michigan campus will not hear the sound of powwow drums, singing, and jingle dancing. Nor will it host some 5,000 Native dancers, drummers, artisans and other powwow people at the annual event—one of the largest student run powwows in the country.
The Native American Student Association (NASA) at the University of Michigan announces its decision to keep the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow from the campus of the University of Michigan. The 38th Annual Dance for Mother Earth Powwow again will be held at Saline Middle School April 10-11, 2010.
The reason? In honor of their ancestors, they are continuing their protest of the University’s ongoing failure to return ancestral human remains to tribes—and to meet federal requirements to engage tribes towards that end.
According to federal inventories, the University Of Michigan Museum Of Anthropology holds 1,390 individuals in its archaeology “collection.” Despite three years of advocacy on the part of many tribal, student and faculty groups, archaeology curators have been steadfast in resisting legal and ethical calls for the reburial of these individuals. Michigan tribes have officially and unofficially notified the museum that by failing to proactively pursue consultation with tribes, the university is in violation of a federal law. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, passed in 1990, requires museums to conduct tribal consultation and to apply due diligence in obtaining it.
Last October—nearly two decades after NAGPRA was passed—U of M got serious about developing appropriate protocols about Native human remains in its “collection.” The U announced the formation of a committee to develop “advice that is pro-active, respectful and responsive to all interested parties.*
U-M Law Day 2010 Poster (April 2, 2010)
U-M Law School, April 2, 2010, at 1-5 PM.
Confirmed speakers include Frank Ettawageshik, Matthew Fletcher, Allie Maldonado, Mike Phelan, and Zeke Fletcher.
NNALSA Moot Court Competition Results Press Release
Schlender, Jr. wanted this up as soon as possible. 🙂
The text:
Wisconsin wins the 18th Annual NNALSA Moot Court Competition
In a riveting performance Dan Lewerenz and William Dalsen of the University of Wisconsin Law School won the 2010 NNALSA Moot Court Competition held in Vermilion, South Dakota, February 19-20, 2010. The University of South Dakota hosted this most impressive event.
Advancing to the final round were Lewerenz and Dalsen of Wisconsin Law against Robert Thompson and Alison Grigonis of the University of California Los Angeles School of Law.
The judges for the Championship round was composed of South Dakota Attorney General Marty J. Jackley, Hon. Robert A. Miller of the South Dakota Supreme Court (Chief Justice, retired), Hon. Jeffrey L. Viken and Hon. Karen E. Schreier (Chief Judge) of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, and Hon. Roger L. Wollman of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Minority Student Group Reforms at U-M
From the Mich. Daily:
Alys Alley, external co-chair of the Native American Student Association, is on a mission to spark dialogue among students about the obstacles minorities face on campus.
Alley, an LSA sophomore who is a member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, began this dialogue last Friday at an event called “Reflect, Remember, Regroup.” Alley led a discussion with about 20 University students in the multicultural lounge in South Quadrangle Residence Hall to talk about past and current cultural barriers for minority students.
Alley began the dialogue with a movie called “Fight Like Hell,” which describes the history of the controversy surrounding the campus senior society Michigamua, now officially called Order of Angell, to show the difficulties minority students and minority groups face on campus.
Order of Angell is a senior honor society formed in 1902. The society allegedly both used Native American artifacts as part of its proceedings, and members spoke in a dialect that mocked Native Americans during group meetings.
In 2007, Michigamua was renamed the Order of Angell and has since remained mostly secretive about its role on campus, though it now releases the names of its incoming members each year. Continue reading
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