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NAGPRA Repatriation Roundtable at University of Michigan — April 9

April 6, 2010April 6, 2010Matthew 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:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/repatriation

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

Indian Law Clinic Symposium — June 20-21, 2010 @ ABQ

March 30, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Flyer here: SAVE THE DATE Flyer

Michigan Indian Law Day Agenda (UPDATED) — April 2

March 30, 2010March 30, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher

University of Michigan NALSA

2010 Indian Law Day Schedule

Looking Inward: Tribal Governance

Blessing

1:00 – 1:10

Joseph Brave-Heart

Keynote Speaker

1:10 -1:40

Frank Ettawageshik

Former Tribal Chairman, Little Traverse Bay

Bands of Odawa Indians

Tribal Constitutions

1:45 – 2:25

Allie Maldonado, Assistant General Counsel,

Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

Mike Phelan, Office of the General Counsel

Pokagon Band Potawatomi Indians

Tribal Courts

2:30 – 3:10

Prof. Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law

Amy Kullenberg, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians

Break/Refreshments

3:10 – 3:25

Tribal Economic Diversification

3:25 – 4:05

Zeke Fletcher, Associate, Rosette & Associates

Prof. Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law

Idaho Native American Law Conference TODAY

March 26, 2010March 26, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Living in Balance:

Tribal Nation Economics and Law

University of Idaho College of Law
Law School Courtroom
Sponsored by the James E. Rogers American Indian Law Fund

Speakers:

Robert J. Miller:Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland Oregon
Gabriel “Gabe” Galanda: Decendent of the Nomlaki and Concow Tribes; enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes; Member in Williams Kastner’s Tribal Practice Group (Seattle office)
Stacy Leeds: Professor of Law; Director of the Tribal Law and Government Center, University of Kansas School of Law
Matthew L.M. Fletcher:Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Law; Director of Indigenous Law and Policy Center

Program

8:00-8:50 a.m.
Mini breakfast in foyer

9:00-9:20 a.m.
Dean Don Burnett’s Welcome and Associate Professor Angelique EagleWoman Introduction

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U-M Law Day 2010 Poster (April 2, 2010)

March 24, 2010March 24, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher

U-M Law School, April 2, 2010, at 1-5 PM.

Confirmed speakers include Frank Ettawageshik, Matthew Fletcher, Allie Maldonado, Mike Phelan, and Zeke Fletcher.

Revised FBA Indian Law Conference Brochure

March 21, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

We’ve added a last-minute panel on Cobell, featuring Eloise Cobell, Hilary Tompkins, Michael Finley, Richard Monette, and Bill Dorris.

Here is the updated material:

indlaw-brochure10-revised

Turtle Talk Poll: NIGA or Fed Bar?

March 12, 2010March 12, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Unfortunately, this year the annual conferences for the National Indian Gaming Association and the Federal Bar Association are during the same week, with NIGA in San Diego and Fed Bar at the Pojoaque Pueblo. Which conference are you going to?

Alternatively, this year many tribes and entities are feeling the pinch of budget cuts perhaps related to the downturn in the economy. Are you not going to either because of budget cuts?