Symposia

Saginaw Chippewa Hosting Meeting on Coal Plants in Michigan — Sept. 4

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the agenda:

10:00-11:00 Registration and Vendor booths on Green building resources

11:00-12:00 Saginaw Chippewa Housing- Guest Speaker, to be announced

12:00-1:00  Lunch (must RSVP below) provided by the Saginaw Chippewa Housing Department

1:00-1:15     Introduction:

1:15-2:15     Peter Sinclair-An Inconvenient Truth

2:15-2:45    Lee Sprague-Michigan Sierra Club, “Coal Rush”

2:45-3:00   Break

3:00-4:00   Steve Smiley-Heron Wind Manufacturing, Renewable Energy as a Tribal Economic Development Strategy.

4:00-5:30   Question and Answer Session

William Brooks, Attorney, and open session to discuss legal and regulatory issues involved with the proposed Coal Fired Plants in Mid-Michigan.

6:00 pm     Dinner provided (must RSVP below) Sponsored by Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council

You can download the registration form here.

Neocolonial Inscription and Performance of American Identity in American Indian Higher Education — Conference Announcement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The conference website is here and registration starts soon!

Here is the law panel, hosted by the MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center:

Law: Who’s Legal and Why Should or Shouldn’t That Matter?

Panelists: Andrew Adams III, General Counsel, St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin; Trent Cable, Makah Nation; Colette Routel, Atty Jacobson, Buffalo, Magnuson, Anderson & Hogen in St. Paul, Minnesota.

John Petoskey, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and Kate Fort, MSU Indigenous Law and Policy Center, will be sitting on panels as well.

The rest of the panels are listed here.

“Bringing Civil Rights to Indian Country”

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Here is the brochure on a civil rights and racism conference to be held at Chehalis by the Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission. Looks like a great program, with Billy Frank, Eloise Cobell, Alan Parker, Dennis Chappabitty, John McCoy, Dee Koester, and Bob Anderson.

Society of American Indian Government Employees Annual Conference @ GT Resort

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SAIGE is hosting its 5th annual conference this week at the Grand Traverse Resort. The program features several excellent, nationally-known speakers, including Johnny BearCub Stiffarm, Stephen Pevar, and Daniel Wildcat. Here is the agenda.

Save the Date — MSU American Indian Identity Conference — October 16-17, 2008

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NEOCOLONIAL INSCRIPTION AND PERFORMANCE
OF AMERICAN INDIAN IDENTITY
IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION

SAVE THE DATE

OCTOBER 16 & 17 2008

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.

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Lewis & Clark Indigenous Economic Development Conference Podcast Now Available

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

May 1st, 2008

Business Law Symposium 2008
Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business Agenda
April 4, 2008
Spring Symposium 2008

This conference brings together scholars from around the country, most of whom are tribal citizens and experienced in economic development, to discuss the practical and the theoretical issues facing American Indian governments in their task to bring economic development to their reservations that is both profitable, sustainable, and culturally appropriate.

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Program for Society for the Study of Midwest Literature 2008 Annual Meeting

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The annual meeting for the Society for the Study of Midwest Literature will be here at MSU beginning Thursday May. The program can be downloaded here. The events are in the MSU Union.

Highlights include:

Thursday

Session C — 4-5:30 PM — Parlor B — Law and Literature

Mae Kuykendall and Renee Knake of MSU law college will be presenting on this panel

Friday

Session G — 1:30-3 PM — Parlor C — Fiction Reading

Me!!! [right before I have to run off to make the law college graduation ceremony]. I’ll be reading from a short story called “Parker Roberts” (parker-roberts).

Saturday

Session K — 10:30-Noon — Gold Room B — Law and Literature

Fred Baker, Jr. on Justice Voelker and “An Anatomy of An Anatomy of a Murder”

Northwest Tribes Climate Change Conference

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Climate Change in the Northwest

“Tribal Perspectives”

Date and Location:

May 29-30, 2008 (Thursday and Friday)

Public Library Downtown

Microsoft Conference Room

Call the directly to confirm your lodging no later than April 24, 2008, at 1-800-945-2240, and mention the Tribal Climate Change Conference.

For more information, please contact Pat Gonzales-Rogers at (503) 231-6123 or Pat_Gonzales-Rogers@fws.gov. (Pat is the Tribal Liaison for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 1).

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Cherokee Principal Chief Chad Smith to Conclude 2008 Federal Indian Bar

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Here is the final, final agenda for the FBA Indian Law Conference, now featuring Cherokee Nation principal chief Chad Smith, who will be speaking about the Cherokee Freedmen issue.

final-fba-2008-agenda-plus-smith

UNM Indian Country Statute Conference — April 12, 2008

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the flyer for this conference:

UNM Conference Flyer