Colorado Law is hosting a CLE on Indian law in conjunction with the NNALSA Moot Court competition.
Here is the agenda.
I’ll be presenting on the ethics of pushing the envelope in Indian law cases (paper here).
Symposia
Michigan Indian Education Critical Issues Conference — Agenda and Registration
Here is the registration information and conference agenda for the 2009 MIEC Conference at the Soaring Eagle Inn and Conference Center, March 12-14.
Jeff Davis (Turtle Mountain), 14-year veteran of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan, will be the keynote speaker.
I’ll be presenting a history of the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver at 8:30 on Friday. And I’ll be talking about ways to use my book (“American Indian Education”) in the classroom at 1 on Friday.
FBA Indian Law Conference Agenda Available
Here.
American Indian Law Review to Publish Papers from MSU Conference “American Indian Law and Literature”
Here is a listing of the articles to be published in volume 33, no. 1:
- From Hatuey to Che: Indigenous Cuba Without Indians and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Larry Catá Backer
- “Channeling Thought”: The Legacy of Legal Fictions from 1823 – Jen Camden & Kathryn E. Fort
- Interpretive Sovereignty: A Research Agenda – Kristen A. Carpenter
- Crossover – Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
- Red Leaves and the Dirty Ground: The Cannibalism of Law and Economics – Matthew L.M. Fletcher
- Genealogy as Continuity: Explaining the Growing Tribal Preference for Descent Rules in Membership Governance in the United States – Kirsty Gover
- Writing the Living Law: American Indian Literature as Legal Narrative – Amelia V. Katanski
- How Lawyers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas: An Essay on James Welch’s The Indian Lawyer – Renee Newman Knake
- Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy – Margaret Montoya & Christine Zuni Cruz, interviewed by Gene Grant
- At the Edge of Indian Law Scholarship: A Poem Instead of a Footnote – Frank Pommersheim
Lewis and Clark Law Review Symposium on Tribal Economic Development Published
The articles are available here. Authors include Gavin Clarkson, David Haddock, Richard Monette, Alex Skibine, Judy Royster, Bob Miller, and me.
Indian Law-Related Panels at AALS
Thursday, January 8, 2009, 8:30-10:15
Section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples
Columbia 3, North Tower/Lobby Level, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
New Directions for International Law and Indigenous Peoples
(Program to be published in Idaho Law Review)
The United Nations’ adoption of the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” in September 2007 marked an historic moment for the world’s 300 million indigenous peoples. The Declaration is the first time that the United Nations has formally recognized indigenous peoples’ rights to self-determination and control over their lands and natural resources. This year’s program will address the following issues related to the Declaration: How can the Declaration be used to improve the lives of indigenous peoples; What national laws and policies violate the Declaration, and what are the most effective remedial measures to address these violations?; and, How will the Declaration influence Congress, the administration and the courts?
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.
Robert T. Coulter – Speaker
Angelique A. Eaglewoman – Speaker
G. W. Rice – Speaker
Wenona T. Singel – Moderator
Third Annual Indian Law Clinics and Externship Program — Save the Date
SAVE THE DATE
June 7-9, 2009
Third Annual Indian Law Clinics and Externship Programs: Symposium and Workshop
Sponsors
Southwest Indian Law Clinic UNM School of Law
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Contributors
The Tribal Law Practice Clinic Washburn University School of Law
Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Where: Isleta Casino & Resort, Pueblo of Isleta (located just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Web site: www.isleta-casino.com
For: Professors, Directors, Clinicians and Staff of Indian Law, Poverty Law, Economic Justice and
Community Lawyering Clinics and those interested in carefully considering their work with Communities
through the provision of legal representation.
Goal: To dedicate time and space for Indian law clinics and other clinicians working with minority populations
to work in solidarity on Poverty Law and Community Lawyering issues, to discuss our shared mission and differing
perspectives, and to support new ideas
We look forward to your participation in our Exciting Symposium Program. Watch for more Program details Coming Soon.
Contacts:
Professor Christine Zuni Cruz Professor Aliza Organick
Professor Barbara Creel Tribal Law Practice Clinic
Southwest Indian Law Clinic Washburn University School of Law
UNM School of Law 785-670-1664
505-277-5265 (P) aliza.organick@washburn.edu
zunich@law.unm.edu
creel@law.unm.edu
FBA 2009 Save the Date Postcard
The Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference save the date postcard is in the mail. Here is thedescription on the postcard (which is linked below the fold):
For the first time in its history, the annual Federal Bar Association Indian Law Conference will take place in a tribal community just outside of Santa Fe, N.M., at Pojoaque Pueblo’s Buffalo Thunder Resort. We celebrate this historic move as an opportunity for reflection on the relationship between federal Indian law and Indian communities, particularly in an era of political change and promise.
“Red Cents in Indian Country: Native Claims to Things” Conference
November 24-25, Borrego Springs, CA
Click here for a downloadable program and schedule
Presentations include:
Larry Nesper, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Early 20th century community life at McCord and Skunk Hill: An ethnohistorical perspective on traditionality, authenticity, and affluence
Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, Tribal Sovereignty As Property
Bruce Granville Miller,University of British Columbia, The Only Good Indian is a Capitalist and Other Dilemmas in a Resource Extraction Province
Kate Spilde, SDSU, The Politics of American Indian Surplus in the Indian Gaming Era
Travis Tanner, UC Irvine, Sioux Disappointment
David Kamper, San Diego State University, “Rich Indian” Managers and Tribal Labor Relations
Eve Darian-Smith, UCSB, Polarizing Identities, Galvanizing Opinions: Exploiting the rhetoric of equality in the appropriating of Indian casino revenue in California’s budgetary crisis
Angela R. Riley, Southwestern School of Law, A Wealth of Knowledge
Carole Goldberg, UCLA Returning Ancestral Indian Lands: Too Rich for Just Desserts
Jessica R. Cattelino, UCLA, Settler and Indigenous Commensuration
Audra Simpson, Columbia University, Contemporary Liberalism, Indigenous Politics and The Political Economy of Tears
Duane Champagne, UCLA, The Effects of Changing Land and Market Relations on Political Process Among American Indians
National Wildlife Federation Talk on Upper Peninsula Mining
Join Us at “Mining in Michigan”
For an Inside Look at Threats to the Upper Peninsula
You’re invited! Join the National Wildlife Federation at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment for “Mining in Michigan: A case study of a proposed sulfide mine in Marquette County, Michigan.”
Learn about the controversy and about a new potential mine site in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula while watching a documentary produced by the National Wildlife Federation and interacting with a discussion panel.
Find out what mining means to Michigan and the Great Lakes.
The film, “Mining Madness, Water Wars: The Great Lakes in the Balance” explores the controversial proposal by Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company to develop a new sulfide mine in Marquette County, Michigan. Sulfide mining has been proven deadly to streams and harms public health.
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