Michigan Indian Day 2010 — Sept. 24

It’s not too late to register for the 2010 Michigan Indian Day event!!! The annual event is open to everyone to attend.

During the administration of Governor William G. Milliken, the Legislature designated the fourth Friday of September as Michigan Indian Day (Act 30 of 1974, Section 435.161). To honor this day in the State of Michigan, the Michigan Indian Day Planning Committee through the Ingham County Health Department’s Native American Outreach Program is proud to announce the 9th Annual Michigan Indian Day Event, entitled Strengthening Health, Strengthening Families: Empowering Indigenous Communities.

The event will be taking place Friday, September 24 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Rd., East Lansing, Michigan. The conference this year will be discussing health inequity and health disparities among the American Indian/First Nations populations of Michigan.

Our keynote speakers will be:
Stacy A. Bohlen, Executive Director, National Indian Health Board (NIHB), Washington, D.C.
Daniel Levy, Director of Law & Policy at the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. He will be discussing recent changes made to the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver and the American Indian/First Nations populations this is affecting.

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MSU 7th Annual Indigenous Law Conference Poster — Persuasion and Ideology: Politically Divisive Cases in Appellate Courts

Conference details here.

Dennis Banks Master’s Tea at Yale and Film Showing

This was put together by Ned Blackhawk. My part is the discussion on the second day.

MSU ILPC Spring 2011 Speaker Series

This spring, we’re hosting events for new books on radical thinkers in American law and policy (including Vine Deloria), Loving v. Virginia, and the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Tentative speakers here:

January 24th

Author: Michael Lawrence (MSU)

Radicals in their Own Time: Four Hundred Years of Struggle for Liberty and Equal justice in America

Commentators:

Alfred Brophy (North Carolina)

John Petoskey (Fredericks Peebles)

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Minnesota-Duluth)

February 22nd

Kevin Maillard (Syracuse) and Rose Villazor  (Hofstra)

Co-Editors, Loving v. Virginia in a Post-Racial World

Commentators and Co-Author:

Carla Pratt (Penn State)

Addie Rolnick  (UCLA)

March 24

Author: Barbara Ann Atwood (James E. Rogers College of Law)

Children, Tribes and States

Commentators:

Hon. Michael Petoskey (Chief Judge, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and others)

Hon. Tim Connors (22nd Circuit Court, Washtenaw County)

Judicial Symposium for Michigan-Wisconsin-Minnesota Tribal-State-Federal Judges

The conference is Oct. 12-13, 2010, at the Grand Traverse Resort just outside of Traverse City, Michigan. Come see the colors!!!!

Here is the flyer: Flyer and Agenda.

The speakers include Walter Echo-Hawk, Hon. Korey Wahwassuck, and Hon. David Rausch.

And on the evening of October 11, Walter will be reading from his book at Horizon Books.

Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Starts Today

Details here. Agenda here.

Keith Harper is one of the keynote speakers.

And our Indian law panel line-up is here:

Saturday at Noon:

Decolonizing American Indians & Federal Indian Law
Room 371

Kathryn Fort
Michigan State University College of Law
Moderator & Panelist

Justice Raymond Austin
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Matthew Fletcher
Michigan State University College of Law (paper here)

Robert J. Miller
Lewis & Clark Law School

John Duncan
Florida A&M University College of Law

Dr. John L. Edwards
Former Governor & Chief, Absentee Shawnee Nation

California Indian Law Association Conference — October 8, 2010

Well, it goes against our own interests, since our conference is the same day, but our good friend Angela Riley is the keynote speaker.

CILA Conference Agenda final

Washburn Law Journal Symposium on Tribal Economies and Infrastructure

Here:

Tribal Nation Economics and Legal Infrastructure

Introduction

Articles

Exercising and Protecting Tribal Sovereignty in Day-to-Day Business Operations: What the Key Players Need to Know (395 KB PDF)
S. Chloe Thompson

America’s War on Tribal Economies: Federal Attacks on Native Contracting in the SBA 8(A) Business Development Program (184 KB PDF)
Helaman S. Hancock

Keeping the American Indian Rancher on the Land: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Rise and the Demise of American Indian Ranching on the Northern Great Plains (241 KB PDF)
Raymond Cross

Indigenous (Ecological) Economics Remastered (177 KB PDF)
Valerie J. Phillips

Tribal Nations and Tribalist Economics: The Historical and Contemporary Impacts of Intergenerational Material Poverty and Cultural Wealth Within the United States (279 KB PDF)
Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin)

National POC Legal Scholarship Conference Preliminary Program

Here: POC Preliminary Program july 20.

Indian law profs participating include Bob Miller, Ray Austin, Gloria Valencia-Weber, and me.

Great Lakes Tribal Energy Workshop — June 22-23, 2010

GL Tribal Energy Workshop