Here are the materials in WPX Energy Williston LLC v. Fettig (D.N.D.):
1-8 MHA Nation Supreme Court Decision
8 Fettig Answer + Counterclaim
13 Motion to Dismiss Counterclaim
Prior post here.
Here:
A ZOOM CLE Program, this Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from 9 am to noon, focusing on jurisdiction in Oklahoma’s Indian Country, focusing on cases spanning from U.S. v. Ramsey in 1926 to the recent Hooper & O’Brien Cases authorizing state jurisdiction over Indians in Indian country under novel and unprecedented theories
3 hours of Oklahoma Continuing Legal Education credit applied for, including 1 hour of ethics.
Presented by the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association (“OIBA”)
Email to OklahomaIndianBarAssociation@yahoo.com for more information. Contact Arvo Mikkanen via text at 405/420-9912 with any questions.
Online registration deadline is 12/18/24 at 9:00 am.
REGISTRANTS WILL RECEIVE A ZOOM LINK BY EMAIL ON THE DAY OF THE SEMINAR 12/18/24. DO NOT ASK FOR LINK BEFORE THAT TIME. LINK WILL BE SENT ONLY TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU PROVIDE WHEN YOU REGISTER.
A DROPBOX WILL BE SET UP AND EMAILED TO YOU FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD THE WRITTEN MATERIALS
Registration is $ 75.
Current paid 2024 & 2025 OIBA members with paid membership are entitled to $15 discount and can register for $60.
Elected Tribal Leader / Tribal Employee Registration is $ 30.
Student registrations are $20.
Attorneys: 3 Oklahoma Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) Credits Applied for, including 1 hour of ethics. If you wish for credits for other states, that is your responsibility to submit to your own state bar for approval.
If you are not an Oklahoma bar member, please enter 00000 in the registration form.
AGENDA
9:00 am – 10:00 am – Arvo Mikkanen (Kiowa/Comanche), Attorney & Former Tribal Judge
OIBA President Mikkanen will discuss the recognition of Indian country post statehood in the Osage murder trials, the re-establishment of tribal and federal jurisdiction under the Littlechief and Ahboah cases, and the constructs for analysis provided in the Bracker and Castro-Huerta cases. Ethics for practicing attorneys in the Indian law field will also be discussed throughout.
10:00 am – 11:00 pm – Patti Palmer Ghezzi, Attorney & Trial/Appellate Consultant
Ms. Ghezzi will discuss the critical cases litigated and decided involving Oklahoma’s Indian country after Littlechief, leading up to the Murphy and McGirt cases which recognized the continuing boundaries of the Muscogee Nation Reservation.
11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Jeri Wisner (Muscogee), Attorney General – Muscogee Nation
AG Wisner will discuss the City of Tulsa’s attempts to undermine the McGirt decision which re-established Indian country in eastern Oklahoma within the boundaries of the Muscogee Nation reservation through the recent Hooper and O’Brien cases. The focus will be on assertions that the state has criminal jurisdiction over Indians within Indian country, under a variety of novel theories.
From The Nishnawbe News [Northern Michigan University], May 1972:
From Nishnawbe News [NMU], Summer 1972:
Here are the materials in Ratcliffe v. Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (E.D. Cal.):
Kekek Jason Stark has published “Exercising the Right of Self-Rule: Tribal Constitutions and Tribal Customary Law” in the Mitchell Hamline Law Review. PDF
Here is an excerpt:
In the context of the development and implementation of Tribal constitutions, Tribal Nations must ask themselves whether the federal government was playing a trick on Tribal Nations by imposing the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) and its corresponding constitutions and Anglo-American governing principles upon Indian country. Are these documents and corresponding governing principles actually “shit,” dressed up as “smart berries” under the guise of making Tribal Nations “wise” in the image of Anglo-American law? Ninety years after the enactment of the IRA, it is time Tribal Nations become wise and return to traditional constitutional principles based on Tribal customary law and unwritten, ancient Tribal constitutions.
As always with KJS, highly recommended.
Turtle Talk 
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