1:00 Business Meeting
1:40 Presentation of Tecumseh Peacekeeping Award to John Wernet
2:00 Program – Implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act in Michigan
Presenters:
Maribeth Preston – SCAO, ICWA resource guide
Matthew Fletcher – Case updates
Angela Sherigan – Benefits of transfers to Tribal Court
Here is the agenda for the FBA’s Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City (website). Indian Law is prominently featured:
Thursday, Sept. 10
9:30–10:30 a.m. Session 1A: Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country
Speakers: LAWRENCE BACA; ROBERT DON GIFFORD; ARVO MIKKANEN
10:45–11:45 a.m. Session 2A: The Cherokee Freedmen
Speakers: HON. VICKI MILES-LAGRANGE, Moderator; CHARLES J. OGLETREE JR.; PRINCIPAL CHIEF CHADWICK “CORNTASSEL” SMITH
1:45–2:45 p.m.Session 3A: Issues and Ethics for Lawyers Working with Corporate and Tribal General Counsel
Speakers: SUSANNA M. GATTONI, Moderator; PAIGE S. BASS; MATTHEW L.M. FLETCHER; DEANNA HARTLEY-KELSO; HENRY J. HOOD; KERI C. PRINCE; LYNDON C. TAYLOR; GLORIA VALENCIA-WEBER
3:00–4:00 p.m. Session 4A: Issues and Ethics for Lawyers Working with Corporate and Tribal General Counsel (Continued) (see speakers above)
4:15–5:15 p.m.Session 5A: Delivery of Veterans Services in Indian Country
Speakers: JENNIFER WEDDLE, Moderator; PAUL HUTTER; DOUG ROSINSKI; CAROL WILD SCOTT
Friday, Sept. 11
9:45–10:45 a.m.Session 6A: The Roberts Court on Indian Law
Speakers: MATTHEW L.M. FLETCHER (paper here); JOHN DOSSETT; HON. D. MICHAEL McBRIDE III
Please be advised that the Federal Bar Association selected Walter Echo-Hawk for this award, one of its highest honors. The FBA will honor him on the evening of Sept. 12, 2009 in Oklahoma City at the installation banquet. Lawrence Baca will assume the Presidency of the FBA at this dinner as well.
Native American leaders and lawyers representing thousands of Native American farmers and ranchers in a 10-year-old nationwide class action lawsuit (Keepseagle v. Vilsack) against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will urge President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to make long-overdue changes to the USDA’s discriminatory lending practices and call upon the new Administration to settle the Keepseagle case.
After a panel discussion and a press availability that are open to the media from 1:30 to 3:30 pm, hundreds of Keepseagle class members will meet with their attorneys, Joseph Sellers and Sarah Vogel at the Bismarck Civic Center. These events will take place in conjunction with the 40th Annual United Tribes International Powwow and the United Tribes Tribal Leaders Summit, which thousands of Native Americans will attend.
A new expert report will be released that finds since 1981 Native American farmers and ranchers received only half the loans they were qualified to receive, when compared to other farmers. This disparity confirms the accounts of thousands of Native Americans who have been the subject of a longstanding pattern of discrimination by USDA, which denied them $3 billion in credit, resulting in nearly $1 billion in damages.
Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission hosted a major treaty rights symposium on July 28-30, 2009, featuring many of the stars of Indian law — Kathryn Tierney, Marc Slonim, Henry Buffalo, Jr., Bruce Greene, and others. The symposium website is here.
Webcasts of many of the speeches are here at IndianCountryTV.com.
Written materials are linked here:
The Indian Law Section of the Federal Bar Association, the National Native American Bar Association, and the Native American Bar Association of Washington, D.C., invite you to
Save the Date
for the 11th Annual
Washington, D.C. Indian Law Conference
November 13, 2009
at the National Museum of the American Indian
www.nmai.si.edu
More details to follow in Fall 2009.
Kevin Maillard at Faculty Lounge has posted a call for papers for CUNY’s Law and Literature symposium. As the organizers and hosts of the only (so far) symposium on American Indian Law and Literature (our 2007 Indigenous Law Conference), and contributors to the only (so far) special symposium issue of a law journal dedicated to American Indian Law and Lit (American Indian Law Review’s volume 33, issue no. 1), we sincerely hope to see some American Indian law and lit papers at CUNY.
Conference information here.
Mātauranga Taketake: Traditional Knowledge
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This conference addresses the question of difference. What are the costs to communities and society of failing to understand others? Can we reflect on our own assumptions and practice, our shared past and present and imagine and pursue a better future for individuals and the greater collective? The conference will provide opportunities to discuss strategies for engaging, understanding and accommodating difference in order to build relationships that address social, economic, resource, and environmental risks associated with failure to understand sufficiently the differences among indigenous and non-indigenous communities and societies. Given the diversity present in those attending the conference there will be many opportunities to learn from diverse contexts around the world about efforts to engage across the inter-face between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, across all disciplines, from individuals to societies, governments and nations. The intention is to move beyond identifying and understanding problems toward creative solutions that meet the needs of present and future generations. The conference provides the opportunity to develop a broader understanding by seeing and hearing things outside our own scope, to make connections across boundaries, and to formulate partnerships across new interfaces.
From Law & Humanities Blog:
Call for Participation: 13th Annual ASLCH Conference
March 19-20, 2010
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities is an organization of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary, humanistic legal scholarship. The Association brings together a wide range of people engaged in scholarship on legal history, legal theory, jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics. We want to encourage dialogue across and among these fields about issues of interpretation, identity, ideals, values, authority, obligation, justice, and about law¹s place in culture.
We will be accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, papers, and volunteers for chairs and discussants from July 15th until October 15th 2009.
PLEASE NOTE: To submit proposals, please go to the online submission site https://www.regonline.com/13thAnnual
This year, the FBA’s annual conference features a significant Indian law track. The website is here:
Join us in Oklahoma City, where Mayor Mick Cornett and Governor Brad Henry will welcome you at the opening CLE sessions on Thursday and Friday. CLE programs will be held at the Skirvin Hilton, including sessions featuring Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko professor of law and director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, and Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Receptions will be held at the Oklahoma History Center and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and a special program on the Oklahoma City Bombing at the Museum Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism will be held, followed by a tour of the museum and memorial.
Here is the flyer for this training, scheduled for August 10-14, 2009 in Tulsa.
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