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….
Symposia
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.
2013 Michigan Indian Day Event — This Afternoon
6th Annual Tribal Leadership Conference: Transitions — Sept. 24-25, 2013
Here is the agenda.
Agenda and Flyer for CU Law’s “Free Prior & Informed Consent: Pathways for a New Millennium” — Nov. 1, 2013
Here (PDF):
UCLA Good Native Governance Conference Flyer
Here (PDF):
Michigan State Bar Indian Law Section to Grant Tecumseh Peacekeeping Award to Matt Wesaw
State Bar of Michigan
American Indian Law Section Annual Meeting
September 19, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
The Lansing Center
333 E. Michigan Avenue
Lansing, MI 48933
The American Indian Law Section is pleased to announce that Matt Wesaw is the recipient of the 2013 Tecumseh Peacekeeping Award. Please join us in honoring him at the American Indian Law Section Annual Meeting. Tribal Leaders, staff and community members are welcome. We will also be having a program on “Financing Economic Development” featuring Kristi Jackson and Rob Gips. There is no charge and light refreshments will be served.
The 2013 Tecumseh Peacekeeping Award Recipient is Matt Wesaw.
Matthew Wesaw has spent his career devoted to public service. He began by enlisting with the Michigan State Police in 1975. During his 26-year career as a state trooper, Mr. Wesaw received numerous awards, recognitions and promotions. He was elected to the position of Vice President of the Michigan State Police Troopers Association in 1995, a position he held until his retirement in January of 2001. Throughout his career, Mr. Wesaw has held many positions in Native American organizations, including past board member to the Lansing American Indian Center, Nokomis Learning Center, and past chairman of the Commission on Indian Affairs. He has also served on the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Tribal Council as a member, Chairman and Vice Chairman. In 2004, Mr. Wesaw was appointed to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, becoming only the second Native American appointed to the Commission. In 2010, he became the first Native American to serve as Chair of the Commission, a position he held until 2012. In 2007, Mr. Wesaw was hired as the Executive Director of the United Tribes of Michigan. He served in this position until his election as Tribal Chairman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians in 2009. In addition to his current position as Chairman at Pokagon, he serves as the President and CEO of the Pokagon Gaming Authority, as the Recording Secretary for the National Congress of American Indians and on the Council on Law Enforcement and Reinvention committee.
This year’s program is “Financing Economic Development.”
Our two featured speakers are Kristi Jackson and Rob Gips.
Kristi Jackson will be focusing her remarks on the following: financial and business due diligence issues to consider when creating an economic development project; issues to look for to make sure an economic development project can be successful; and various financing options available for these projects.
Rob Gips will be focusing his remarks on the following: legal due diligence issues to consider when creating an economic development project; best practices for negotiating financing with banks or other investors; and how tribal laws can impact financing negotiations.
Kristi Jackson is the CEO of Tribal Financial Advisors, an investment banking firm she co-founded in 2009 to exclusively serve tribes with financing related issues. TFA raises capital for tribes as well as works on general financial advisory assignments – often as an enhancement to a tribe’s own finance team. TFA has been a part of over $1billion of capital raised for tribes since 2010. In her prior role, she served as a managing director of Bank of American Secruities, leading the tribal finance effort which raised more than $15 billion of capital for over 30 tribes, including syndicated bank debt, high yeild and tax-exempt bonds. Ms. Jackson holds a Bachelor’s decgree in economics and mathematics from the University of California at Irvine and a MBA from Anderson School at UCLA.
Rob Gips is special counsel on Indian affairs at the Drummond Woodsum law firm. He has served as legal counsel and as a key business and financial advisor to Indian tribes since 1983. Rob’s practice has included service as general counsel and as an advisor in business and financial transactions by tribal governments throughout the United States.His specialized business development work for his clients has included the creation and acquisition of hotel, resort, casino and gaming facilities, tribal housing, tribal manufacturing facilities, industrial lands and a broad variety of both on- and off-reservation joint ventures, and representation of parties in a variety of complex commercial financing in Indian country. Mr. Gips has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a J.D. and M.B.A. from Yale Law School and Yale School of Management.
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