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Indian Law-Related Panels at AALS

January 6, 2009Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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

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Third Annual Indian Law Clinics and Externship Program — Save the Date

December 19, 2008December 19, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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

December 10, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher3 Comments

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.

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“Red Cents in Indian Country: Native Claims to Things” Conference

November 24, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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

November 21, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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.

WHO: National Wildlife Federation and
the School of Natural Resources & Environment WHAT: Mining in Michigan: A case study of a proposed
sulfide mine in Marquette County WHEN: Monday, November 24th at 5 p.m.

WHERE: University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
School of Natural Resources & Environment
440 Church Street (this block is pedestrian only)
Room 1040 Dana Building

“Inside Tribal Politics” Panel at UM on Monday, Nov. 10

November 6, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

I will be sitting on a panel on tribal governments on Monday with Ada Deer and David Cornsilk at the University of Michigan.

Tribal Politics Flyer

Panelist Biographies

MSU Conference: Neocolonial Inscription and Performance of American Indian Identity in American Higher Education: Oct. 16-17

October 15, 2008October 17, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

The conference will attempt to address and review issues of American Indian identity in higher education. Through this process, we hope to create and expand inter-community, inter-institutional and public dialogue on American Indians in higher education. The two day conference will examine key issues such as tribal sovereignty, faculty hiring, current university practices allowing self-identification, and explore who should represent American Indians in American Indian higher education programs and departments.

As a result of this conference, we hope to make MSU a better community, a more honest community, a place where diversity engenders not only inclusion in name, but where diversity includes, reflects and respects diverse ways of knowing and thinking, as well as diverse means for reception, delivery and acceptance of cultural competencies and production.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Cornel Pewewardy

The Honorable Steve Russell

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