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PBS Film Showing of “Warrior Lawyer” at the Dennos Museum

October 26, 2021gabrielagendreau

WARRIOR LAWYERS: DEFENDERS OF SACRED JUSTICE BY AUDREY GUYER

Thursday, November 4
7:00 p.m. followed by a discussion with the filmmaker & community

Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice (2021) is a one-hour PBS documentary that is particularly timely and relevant given our country’s current reckoning with racial inequity and structural racism. The program focuses on the stories of Native American Lawyers, Tribal Judges and their colleagues who work with Native Nations and their citizens to achieve Sacred Justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address and resolve unique and complicated historical, governmental, legal, judicial and social welfare issues, which are most often rooted in discrimination, historical trauma and cultural destruction. Come take a journey into past and present-day Indian Country to learn of untold stories that shine a light on Native Americans rising up to create a new path for today and for the next Seven Generations.

This will be a free event, and no registration required. Please remember to bring your mask.

Links:

https://www.dennosmuseum.org/events/films.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/407774880739695

Ninth Circuit Decides Shingle Springs v. Caballero

October 26, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished opinion in Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians v. Caballero.

Briefs:

opening brief.pdf Download

answer brief.pdf Download

reply.pdf Download

Indian Law Issues in the News (10/25/2021)

October 25, 2021Singel

Detroit News: First lady Jill Biden visits Saginaw Chippewa center to discuss youth mental health

Arizona Capitol Times: Ducey gives tribe $30M for water rights

NYTs: Can This Tribe of ‘Salmon People’ Pull Off One More Win?

WaPo (April article): Canada’s Supreme Court says some Native Americans who are not Canadian citizens can hunt in British Columbia

Grist: EPA finally has an action plan to improve water infrastructure and sanitation for US tribes

AP: Oklahoma court adds Quapaw Nation to those covered by McGirt ruling

Curbed: A Lenape Tribe Finally Wrests Its Sacred Site Back from Developers

AZ Central: Indigenous peoples seek greater voice and more influence at COP26 climate conference

NYTs: How Is ‘Dune’ So Prescient About Climate Change? Thank This Native American Tribe.

KTAR: Apaches ask appeals court to oppose transfer of Arizona land

The Hill: Human rights panel will hear case claiming US regulators violated Navajo tribe’s rights: report

Tulsa World: Tulsa, Owasso join state in seeking to overturn McGirt ruling

Great Lakes Now: Enbridge temporarily stops Michigan pipeline due to protests

NYTs: Film Club: ‘A Conversation With Native Americans on Race’

Salt Lake Tribune: Survivors see a link between Indigenous boarding schools’ harsh discipline and later domestic violence

Keloland: South Dakota ACLU says Dept. of Education may have violated federal and constitutional law by removing elements of Native American culture and history from draft of state social studies standards

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in Oak Flat Case

October 25, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Briefs are here.

Today — High Crimes: Marijuana Law in South Dakota and Beyond, Law Review Symposium 2021

October 25, 2021gabrielagendreau

Monday, October 25th, 2021 | 8:45am – 4:00pm CT | All events will occur as a webcast

2:00pm EST / 1:00pm CT | Panel: Tribes Entering the Marijuana Industry

https://turtletalk.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/high-crimes-marijuana-law-in-south-dakota-and-beyond-law-review-symposium-2021-5-1.pdf

Fletcher & Singel on Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act

October 25, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Fletcher and Singel have posted “Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act,” forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review‘s upcoming symposium on civil rights lawyering. Here is the abstract:

This Essay describes how the statutory structure of child welfare laws enables lawyers and courts to exploit deep-seated stereotypes about American Indian people rooted in systemic racism to undermine the enforcement of the rights of Indian families and tribes. Even where Indian custodians and tribes are able to protect their rights in court, their adversaries use those same advantages on appeal to attack the Constitutional validity of the law. The primary goal of this Essay is to help expose those structural issues and the ethically troublesome practices of adoption attorneys as the most important ICWA case in history, Brackeen v. Haaland, reaches the Supreme Court.

U. Wisc. Law Review Podcast on the Indian Law Restatement

October 25, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the “The Restatement of the Law of American Indians” episode of the podcast of the University of Wisconsin Law Review, “Forward.”

The G. William Rice Memorial Scholarship Deadline Approaching

October 22, 2021gabrielagendreau

G. William “Bill” Rice

was an attorney, University of Tulsa Law School professor, widely hailed expert on American Indian legal matters, and beloved mentor, colleague, am friend to many. A citizen of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, Bill dedicated his life to furthering the rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. This scholarship is granted in his name and is intended to help law students with the costs of the bar exam.