Symposia

Michigan Indian Day SAVE THE DATE — Sept. 24, 2010

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
The Ingham County Health Department and Michigan State University ask you to SAVE THE DATE (flyer here: save the date michigan indian day) and invite you to attend the 2010 Michigan Indian Day event. The event will be taking place Friday September 24, 2010 at the Hannah Community Center in East Lansing, Michigan. The conference theme this year is Strengthening Health, Strengthening Families: Empowering Indigenous Communities.
The Michigan Indian Day Committee is currently taking requests for workshop proposals (application here: MID Workshop Proposal Request Letter). The workshop proposals are due Monday June 21 by 5p.m. and notification of accepted workshops will be announced on Monday July 12 by 5 p.m.
The SAVE THE DATE flier and Workshop Proposal Application are attached with this email. More information will be added to the Native American Outreach Program website. Please go to the this website for more current  information and materials as the Michigan Indian Day Event approaches.

Minnesota American Indian Bar Association 2010 Annual CLE — June 17-18 @ Leech Lake

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Brochure here (updated): MAIBA Brochure(4)

Keynotes:

Hon. Korey Wahwassuck, Associate Judge of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Court

Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Associate Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center, Michigan State University College of Law

Other speakers include:

Colette Routel, Assistant Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law

Chris Strandlie, Assistant Cass County Attorney

Frank Bibeau, Legal Director, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

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Arizona State Law Journal IGRA Symposium Issue

Kate Fort

The Arizona State Law Journal’s IGRA Symposium Issue is out.  Volume 42 has 7 articles about IGRA.  The articles are not yet available on their website, but here are the titles and the authors.  Some of the articles are available on this site via SSRN.

Virginia W. Boylan, Reflections on IGRA 20 Years After Enactment, 42 Arizona State Law Journal 1  (Spring 2010)

Robert N. Clinton,  Enactment of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988: The Return of the Buffalo to Indian Country or Another Federal Usurpation of Tribal Sovereignty?,  42 Arizona State Law Journal 17

Franklin Ducheneaux, The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act: Background and Legislative History, 42 Arizona State Law Journal 99

Kevin Washburn, Kevin Gover, Tom Gede, The States as Trespassers in a Federal-Tribal Relationship: A Historical Critique Tribal-State Compacting Under IGRA, 42 Arizona State Law Journal 185

G. William Rice, Some Thoughts on the Future of Indian Gaming, 42 Arizona State Law Journal 219

Alexander Tallchief Skibine, Indian Gaming and Cooperative Federalism, 42 Arizona State Law Journal 253

Kevin Washburn, Agency Conflict and Culture: Federal Implementation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act by the National Indian Gaming Commission, The Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of Justice, 42 Arizona State Law Journal 303

Minnesota Indian Law CLE, June 17th and 18th, Northern Lights Casino

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Materials here:

PDF Indian Law CLE Announcement 2010

CLE Registration Form 2010

Building Strong Sovereign Nations: Tribal Governance Training Conference, May 19-20

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Here’s a reminder of the upcoming Tribal Governance Training Conference at Little River Casino & Resort next month. See the attachment for registration and accommodation information.

May 19, 12PM-5PM
History of Anishinaabek Tribes – John Petoskey
Tribal Council Roles & Responsibilities – Frank Ettawageshik

May 20, 8AM -12PM
Indian Child Welfare Act – Kate Fort & Emily Proctor
Indian Gaming in Michigan – Bill Brooks
Introduction to Tribal Justice Systems – Holly Thompson
Labor Relations & Tribal Businesses – Zeke Fletcher

BSSN Training Conference May 19-20

American Indian Studies Graduate Student Conference @ MSU This Week

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the program:

Program

Thursday evening April 22, 2010

6:00 Reception and check-in, LookOUT! Gallery, Snyder-Phillips Hall

8:00 Keynote Address, “My People Will Sleep for 100 Years: Art, Activism and Visual Sovereignty,” Dr. Dylan A.T. Miner, Michigan State Residential College in Arts and Humanities, Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium

Friday April 23, 2010

All events at Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium unless otherwise noted

8:00 Breakfast and registration

8:30 Welcome and Introductions, Sakina Hughes, Michigan State History

8:45 Opening, Dr. Phil Bellfy, Michigan State Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures

Session 1:  Structures of Early Colonialism

9:00 Ashley Wiersma, Michigan State History, “Re-envisioning the Origins of Orientalism and France’s Mission Civilisatrice in New France”

9:15 Deirdre McMurtry, Ohio State History, “The Post-Tridentine Trap:  Exploring the Authority of Indigenous Laity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Missions, Canada and Beyond”

9:30 Richard Weyhing, Chicago, “Early America/Ethnohistory/Atlantic World; “’A Great French Chief of Many Voices:’ The Pursuit of Power and the Fragmentation of Authority in the Pays d’en Haut”

9:45 Discussion, Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State History; Director, American Indian Studies Program Graduate Student Consortium

10:00 Break

Session 2:  Engaging Scholarship and Questioning Narratives

10:15 Libby R. Tronnes, Wisconsin-Madison History, “Displacing the Indigenous: The Storying of Aztalan in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin”

10:30 Devon Miller, Michigan State Anthropology, “Telling Our Stories:  An Ethnohistorical Approach to Social Reconciliation”

10:45 Sarah Dees, Indiana Religious Studies; “Disappearing Culture?:  Tensions in Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Salvage”

11:00 Kelley Fayard, Michigan Anthropology, “Collaborative Research in One’s Own Community”

11:15 Discussion, Dr. Mindy Morgan, Michigan State Anthropology

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How to Enter the Legal Academy: Pipeline Program

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Occasionally we’re contacted by law students and colleagues who practice in Indian law who are interested in becoming a law professor.    The process for breaking into the law teaching can be a bit mysterious for the uninitiated, but programs like the one below offer an excellent introduction.  This one is held in conjunction with the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, and the program’s title is How to Enter the Legal Academy:  Pipeline Program.  Topics include preparing your CV, what goes on at the “meet market”, interviewing, handling call backs, fellowships and visitorships, writing law review articles, developing a research agenda and advice for late bloomers.  The program runs from 11 am – 3 pm on September 9, 2010 at Seton Hall, and registration is only $20.

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Sovereignty Symposium 2010 — Agenda

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Sovereignty Symposium 2010

AS LONG AS THE GRASS GROWS AND THE RIVERS FLOW

June 2 – June 3, 2010

Skirvin – Hilton Hotel

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

__16__ hours of CLE credit for lawyers will be awarded, including __1_ hour of ethics.

The Sovereignty Symposium was established to provide a forum in which ideas concerning common legal issues could be exchanged in a scholarly, non-adversarial environment.  The Supreme Court espouses no view on any of the issues, and the positions taken by the participants are not endorsed by the Supreme Court.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

a.m.   4.5 CLE credits / 1 ethics included

p.m. 3 CLE credits / 0 ethics included

9:30 – 12:00       PANEL A:

THE YEAR OF THE HORSE

MODERATOR:  HONORABLE TOM COLBERT, Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Madeleine Pickens, Help Save America’s Wild Horses, Dallas, Texas.

Honorable Gregory E.  Pyle, Chief, Choctaw Nation, Durant, Oklahoma.

Honorable Kelly Haney, Seminole, Oklahoma.

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NNABA Annual Meeting Agenda for TODAY

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

NNABA ANNUAL MEETING NOTICE

DATE:            Wednesday April 7, 2010

TIME:            4:00-6:00pm (Changed from 1:00-5:00pm time in Fed Bar agenda)

LOCATION: Fed Bar Conference/Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino, Sante Fe, NM

ROOM:          Mesa A-B

AGENDA
(1) National Legislative and Litigation Update
John Dossett, General Counsel, National Congress

(2) NNABA Native Identity Fraud-“Box-Checking” Initiative Update/LSAC Minority Enrollment Updates
Mary Smith, Obama Nominee AAG DOJ Tax Division
Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, President-Elect NNABA

(3) Obama Administration Nominations/Judicial Nominations/“Tribal Liaison” Positions
Heather Dawn Thompson, Past-President NNABA

(4) Discussion of Newly Proposed NNABA Resolutions

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NAGPRA Repatriation Roundtable at University of Michigan — April 9

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

REPATRIATION ROUNDTABLE

MOVING TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Friday, April 9

2:30-3:30pm

4448 East Hall

With the new federal regulations of Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) regarding “culturally unidentifiable” human remains becoming law in May, this roundtable, sponsored by the Ethnography-as-Activism Repatriation Subgroup, seeks to explore the University of Michigan’s future in the process of implementing these new regulations.

Please join us for short presentations from our panelists followed by what we hope is an engaging conversation.

Speakers:

  • Dean Toni Antonucci
    • Chair, Advisory Committee on Culturally Unidentifiable Human Remains (CUHR) under NAGPRA; Associate Vice President for Research – Social Sciences and Humanities; Professor, Department of Psychology; and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
  • Professor Wenona Singel
    • Assistant Professor of Law & Associate Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University
  • Professor Stuart Kirsch
    • Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UM

For more information about our group and about NAGPRA, please visit our website:


“The institution could not have a future with tribes until it had resolved its past”
Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Anthropology News, March 2010