Indian Land Tenure Foundation

Registration for Next Week’s AIPRA CLE in Albuquerque

February 19, 2016Sarah M Donnelly

There is still time to register for the CLE on the American Indian Probate Reform Act next Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This five-hour course will expose you to the principles, purposes, and implications of AIPRA with the last hour dedicated to the ethics of writing AIPRA-compliant wills.

Course instructors are:

Stephanie Hudson, Adjunct Clinical Professor for the Jodi Marquette American Indian Wills Clinic at Oklahoma City University School of Law
Gus Kerndt, Fiduciary Trust Officer with the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians in the Department of the Interior
Christine Zuni Cruz, Dickason Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico

The session will be held in the Auditorium at the New Mexico State Bar, 5121 Masthead St. N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87109. The charge for attendance is $350 for attorneys receiving 5 CLE credits (pending). Admission is free for law students, and others may attend for a nominal contribution to the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. Lunch is provided.

Click here to register for the event.

Indian Land Tenure Foundation CLE — March 24-26, 2015

March 17, 2015Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

ILTF is doing another Tribal Land Staff National Conference March 24-26, this time in Pala, CA. We are cohosting the event with the National Tribal Land Association (NTLA). We have a whole track of CLE programs – 13.25 credit hours are available and have already been approved in Minnesota. We’re doing the live event, obviously (California CLE credit is pending), but we’re also going to make the audio recordings of the programs available on demand at West LegalEdcenter – the same place we broadcast the program from when you did that CLE on Treaties (which was awesome) with us a year or two back.

I have a link to the event page here: http://www.ntla.info/tribal-land-staff-national-conference/, and a list of programs, their speakers and the number of credit hours awarded by MN is below:

Understanding Mineral and Surface Rights on Indian Lands – Marcela Burges Giles (1.75 hours)

Utility Negotiations on Rights of Way and Easements – Maranda S. Compton (1.5 hours)

Drafting and Submitting Leasing Regulations under the HEARTH Act – Cynthia Morales (1.5 hours)

What is Title Insurance and Why is it Important – Jack Zachow (1.5 hours)

Water Rights on Tribal Lands – Stephen V. Quesenberry (1.5 hours)

How American Indian Probate Reform Act (AIPRA) Affects Drafting Tribal Probate Codes – David Armstrong and Katheleen Guzmann (1.5 hours)

Air Rights Over Tribal Lands – William M. Haney (1 hour)

Legislative Updates – Dorothy Alther (1.5 hours)

Cultural Conservation Easements in Indian Country – Curtis Berkey (1.5 hours)

Indian Land Tenure Foundation Upcoming CLE on Cobell v. Jewell: July 16, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

June 27, 2014Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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Fletcher Webinar on Indian Land Tenure Foundation’s “Native Land Law” — Treaties — June 11

June 6, 2013June 11, 2013Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

ILTF is pleased to announce that Matthew Fletcher, Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law, will be presenting at the June 11th Native Land Law CLE. Professor Fletcher will be discussing treaties.

Professor Fletcher recently published the sixth edition of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (Thomson West 2011) with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams and American Indian Tribal Law (Aspen 2011), the first casebook for law students on tribal law. Fletcher’s book, The Return of the Eagle: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, was released by Michigan State University Press in 2012. Professor Fletcher has published articles with Arizona Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Hastings Law Journal, University of Colorado Law Review, Houston Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and many others. He is the primary editor and author of Turtle Talk, the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy.

The Native Land Law CLE series provides an overview of the 17 legal principles outlined in the legal treatise, Native Land Law: General Principles of Law Relating to Native Lands and Natural Resources, and offers analysis of federal laws and policies that impact the field of Indian law today. Professor Fletcher will offer his own insights into the significance of treaties during this month’s two-hour program.

The CLE will be offered from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, June 11th.

Click here to learn more about the CLE and register for the program. http://www.iltf.org/native-land-law.

All of the previous CLE programs offered as part of the Native Land Law Series are available on demand. To view Professor Colette Routel’s presentation on the Fundamentals of Policy and History or Professor Lindsay Robertson’s presentation on the Discovery Doctrine, Plenary Power & Termination, visit us at http://www.iltf.org/native-land-law.

Indian Land Tenure Foundation 3rd Tribal Land Staff National Conference

February 5, 2013Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Details here:

Tribal Land Staff National Conference
April 3-4, 2013

Conference registration includes two days of information-packed sessions, an evening reception and networking lunches on both days. ($260.00 early bird registration / $350.00 after March 1, 2013 and on-site.)

See Conference Overview and Draft Agenda for more information.