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Indian Land Working Group Annual Conference Announcement

Kate Fort1 Comment

The 22nd Annual Indian Land Consolidation Symposium
Posted By on July 10, 2012

When: October 15-18, 2012
Where: Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, 49500 Seminole Drive, Cabazon, CA 92230
Register for the conference NOW
Sponsored By: Indian Land Working Group

For reservations call: 1-888-MORONGO (1-888-667-6646). Request the “Indian Land Working Group” rate of $98 per night. This rate will only be available until October 1st, 2012. Morongo Casino Resort & Spa is AAA approved, 4-Diamond Award winning hotel owned and operated by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians.

Getting to the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa: Courtesy shuttles will be available from airports at Palm Springs and Ontario, CA. Call Rene Reyes at 951-755-5449 or email him at rene_reyes@morongo.com, as soon as possible to make shuttle arrangements. You may also request group transportation by filling out a request form at http://www.morongocasinoresort.com/grouptransportation.

Who should attend: Allotted landowners, tribal leaders, tribal and federal employees, real estate specialists, appraisers, probate/estate planning specialists, natural resource professionals, attorneys, and students are all encouraged to attend the 22nd Annual Indian Land Consolidation Symposium.

Why you should attend: This year’s symposium promises to offer an exciting and informative series of panels, including updates on Indian land consolidation, the Cobell Settlement, trust reform and the trust responsibility, the Carcieri Fix, tribal trust cases, leasing, land claims, oil and gas negotiated rulemaking, as well as panels on energy development on tribal lands, rights of way, pipelines, planning for indigenous development, Indian agriculture, and more

ILWG Contact- Kristin Ruppel (Interim Director) at 406-600.0369.

Fletcher on NAICJA/Getches’ “Indian Courts and the Future”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

I posted my University of Colorado Law Review symposium paper, “Indian Courts and Fundamental Fairness: Indian Courts and the Future Revisited.” Here is the abstract:

This paper comes out of the University of Colorado Law Review’s symposium issue honoring the late Dean David H. Getches. It begins with Dean Getches’ framework for analyzing Indian courts. I revisit Indian Courts and the Future, the 1978 report drafted by Dean Getches, and the historic context of the report. I compare the 1978 findings to the current state of Indian courts in America. The paper focuses on the ability of Indian courts to successfully guarantee fundamental fairness in the form of due process and the equal protection of the law for individuals under tribal government authority is uniquely tied to the legal infrastructure available to the courts. Congress tried to provide the basic framework in the Indian Civil Rights Act, and many of the most successful tribal justice systems have borrowed from ICRA or developed their own indigenous structure to guarantee due process and equal protection. I argue that ICRA is declining in importance as Indian tribes domesticate federal constitutional guarantees by adopting their own structures to guarantee fundamental fairness.

The Colorado Law Library recently archived Indian Courts and the Future and its two appendices  (here and here). Check them out. The Indian law portion of the symposium is here.

2012 Navajo Nation Bar Association Conference Agenda

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

2012 NNBA Annual Conference Agenda

5th Annual American Indian Justice Conference

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

American Indian Justice Conference
Acme, MI ~ June 4-6, 2012
Grand Traverse Resort
Draft Agenda: AIJC Draft Agenda

5th Annual Conference Continue reading →

Final Reminder for Minnesota American Indian Bar Association Annual Meeting THIS FRIDAY

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the agenda:

2012_indianlaw

Keynote speaker is Patrice Kunesh, and featured speakers include Tracy Toulou, Andrew Adams III, Colette Routel, and Hon. Korey Wahwassuck.

I was going to be there as well, but I will be testifying before the Senate Committee Thursday and couldn’t find a way back to Minnesota. I will be there in spirit, however. This is a remarkable conference and group. We wish we had something like this in Michigan.

AILC Registration Open for Fundamental Knowledge & Skills for Tribal Court Prosecutors

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

TCTP-Prosecutors-RegForm4-30-12

Video from David Getches Memorial Symposium at CU Law School

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Available here.

Coverage of the 44th Annual Dakota Conference in the Argus Leader

Ann Tweedy4 Comments

Here are some links to articles on, and photos of, the 44th Annual Dakota Conference that was held this weekend at Augustana College.  The theme was Wounded Knee 1973.  Unsurprisingly, Russell Means’ comments and keynote address got the most coverage.  The highlight for me was a panel on Native Women’s role in Wounded Knee, which included presentations by Professor Elizabeth Castle, Marcella Gilbert, and Danyelle Means.  I also really enoyed a talk by Professor Emerita Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and a talk and poetry reading by Allison Hedge Coke and Renee Sans Souci.  Finally, a panel discussion by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and Senator James Abourezk was very illuminating, as was a talk by journalist Kevin McKiernan, who covered the occupation from the inside for NPR. 

Articles

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012304280008

http://www.argusleader.com/viewart/20120429/NEWS/304290038/Means-lashes-out-during-look-back-AIM

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012304280010

Photos
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=df&Date=20120427&Category=news&ArtNo=204270804&Ref=ph&Item=0&odyssey=mod|mostpopphotos

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Montana NALSA Indian Law Week Program

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Bakken: Montana/North Dakota/ Canada Law Enforcement Forum (4/23-24/2012)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Attached you will find the tentative agenda and registration information for this Law Enforcement Forum which will be held at the Cottonwood Inn in Glasgow on April 23 and April 24, 2012.  PLEASE REGISTER NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012.
 
Hotel reservations can be made by calling the Cottonwood Inn at 406/228-8213.