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Tribal Citizenship Conference Third Panel
Lenor Scheffler and Sarah Deer
Symposia
Tribal Citizenship Second Panel
My co-panelist Jill Doerfler
William Mitchell Tribal Citizenship Conference–Opening Panel
Sarah Deer convenes the conference
The first panel–John Borrows, Steve Cornell, and Bethany Berger
CU Keynote Speaker: Walter Echohawk
CU Lunchtime Roundtable
Charles Wilkinson, Suzanne Benally, Kim Gottschalk, Ryan Seelau, and Jennifer Weddle
Colorado Indian Law Conference: Morning Panels
First panel: Rebecca Tsosie, Calvin Hill, MF, Rick Collins, and Tim Coulter
Carla Fredericks, Nicholas Cotts, Danika Billie Littlechild, Shelly Alpern, and Dan Morrison, and Rebecca Adamson
Yes, I’m experimenting with panoramas….
CU Indian Law Conference Keynote Speaker Kevin Washburn
Assistant Secretary Washburn
CU Indian Law Program Co-Director Kristen Carpenter
CU Law Dean Phil Weiser
Call for Papers: 2014 Native American Literature Symposium
15th NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM
March 27-29, 2014
Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
Minneapolis, MN
MANY VOICES, ONE CENTER
Call for Proposals
DEADLINE: November 25, 2013
With literature as a crossroads where many forms of knowledge meet—art, history, politics, science, religion, film, cultural studies—we welcome once again spirited participation on all aspects of Native American studies. We invite proposals for individual papers, panel discussions, readings, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops. We especially encourage presentations and panels on teaching children’s and young adult literature by indigenous writers.
Scheduled speakers include Eric Gansworth who just published a young adult novel, If I Ever Get Out of Here, and First Nations Manitoba writers Duncan Mercredi, Katherena Vermette, and Rosanna Deerchild whose work appears in Manitowapow.
FBA’s 15th Annual D.C. Indian Law Conference Agenda
Here:
| 8:00-9:00a | Registration |
| 8:30-8:45a | Welcome & Prayer |
| 8:45-9:45a | Tribal Same Sex Marriage Laws: Several Tribes have passed laws authorizing or banning ame sex marriage. How does the Supreme Court’s ecent Windsor decision impact these Tribal same sex arriage laws and what is its potential impact on Federal ndian law/programs? |
| 9:45-10:00a | Coffee Break |
| 10:00-11:00a | Payday Lending: Recently several Tribal payday lending business have been sued by individuals and states for lending practices that violate state laws. Does the operation of these Tribal payday lending businesses put Tribal sovereign immunity at risk? |
| 11:00a-12:00p | IGRA at 25 and a Discussion of the Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community Supreme Court case: The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act is twenty-five years old and Tribal gaming has undoubtedly benefited many tribes. However, several recent lawsuits by states against Tribal gaming operations and the individual officers of the Tribes have allowed states to test the boundaries of civil enforcement actions and sovereign immunity. Will these attempts to do an endrun around Tribal sovereign immunity by suing the individual officers of the tribes make IGRA’s enforcement mechanisms irrelevant? |
| 12:00-1:30p | Lunch Keynote: Despite partisan gridlock in the current Congress, Senator Cantwell successfully fought to keep the new Tribal provisions in the reauthorized Violence Against Women Act that give Tribes jurisdiction over nonIndian perpetrators of domestic violence. She continues to be an Indian Country ally. |
| 1:30-2:30p | Taxation in Indian country: What impact do the recent taxation cases in the Ninth and Second Circuits and Interior’s new leasing regulations have on the ability of a state or local government to impose a taxes on improvements to Tribal land or to impose taxes on non-Indian vendors that lease property to a Tribe? |
| 2:30-3:45p | Revisiting the NLRB’s San Manuel Decision: Three cases challenging the National Labor Relations Board assertion of jurisdiction over Tribal casinos are currently being briefed in the courts of appeal. In all three cases the Tribes are challenging the NLRB’s assertion of jurisdiction over the tribe and arguing that NLRB’s 2004 San Manuel decision was wrongly decided. Will the San Manuel decision be overturned? |
| 3:45-4:00p | Soda Break |
| 4:00-5:00p | Ethics CLE Who is your client? The Tribe, the Tribal Chairman, the Tribal Council, the individual Tribal Officers, the Tribal Gaming Commission? With the rise of Santa Clara Pueblo type lawsuits against Tribal Officers in their individual capacity, who is your client, what are your responsibilities? How should lawyers responsibly advise the Tribe? |
Indian Law Related Panels at AALS 2014
AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section Program 2014:
“The Relationship Between Indian Law and Tribal Law”
Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014 from 4:00-5:45 pm
Moderator
Christine Zuni Cruz (New Mexico)
Presenters
Samuel E. Ennis (Sonosky) & Caroline P. Mayhew (Hobbs Straus) – Federal Indian Law and Tribal Criminal Justice in the Self-Determination Era
Alexander Tallchief Skibine (Utah) – Constitutionalizing Tribal Sovereignty and the Legitimacy of VAWA
Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne (Mercer) – A Strange Kind of Identity Theft: Can Cultural Identity Be Stolen?
Jeanette Wolfley (New Mexico) – Tribal Environmental Programs: Providing Meaningful Involvement and Fair Treatment
And if you are going to AALS this year, please note that the Section’s Breakfast is also on Saturday Jan. 4, 2014 from 7:00-8:30 am.
Section on Law & Anthropology
Friday, January 3, 2014 from 8:30 -10:15 a.m.
Topic: “The Language of the Law in Indigenous Rights.” This program will deal with the concept of “language” in indigenous peoples’ claims, from real property to criminal justice, and from both instrumental/practical (e.g., law on Indian language revitalization) and theoretical perspectives about language (issues of meaning, translation, interpretation, and expression) as they inform advocacy and analysis in Indian law.
Speakers:
Kristen Carpenter (Colorado) & Angela Riley (UCLA), (Indigenous) Property Lost by Translation
Allison Dussias (New England Law School), Native American Languages & the Law
Matthew Fletcher (Michigan State), Anishinaabe Law and The Round House
Carole Goldberg (UCLA), A Native Vision of Justice
Justin Richland (Chicago), Language of/as Cultural Patrimony: Negotiating NAGPRA in Hopitutskwa
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion. Please attend if you would like to become more active in our section. Leadership positions will be available.
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