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Wisconsin Chippewa Tribes Wait to Hear Night Deer Hunting Ruling
Wisconsin Night Deer Hunt Hearing to Continue Thursday
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Briefs:
Wisconsin’s Brief and Motion to Strike
Tribes’ Response to Motion to Strike
Previous material is here.
Wisconsin Night Deer Hunting Hearing Set for December 12
Wisconsin Tribes Seek to Enforce Treaty Rights in Night Deer Hunt
New Scholarship on Wisconsin’s Indian Mascot Law
The Marquette Sports Law Review has published “Wisconsin Legislature Employs Halftime Adjustment: How Wisconsin’s “New” Indian Mascot Law Changes the Outlook for Future Challenges to the Use of Discriminatory Nicknames, Mascots, and Logos in Wisconsin Schools.”
An excerpt:
This Comment provides an analysis of the history of the Indian mascot controversy as it has played out in Wisconsin high schools. Part II examines Wisconsin’s pupil nondiscrimination statute, the initial legal basis employed to challenge a school district’s use of Indian names and logos. Thereafter, Part III shifts the focus to Wisconsin’s “new” Indian mascot law by providing a thorough analysis of the “new” law, including its legislative history, specific provisions, rules for enforcement, decisions, and potential responses. Next, Part IV compares the two statutes used in Wisconsin to challenge Indian mascots and discusses the effects of their differences. Finally, Part V analyzes the “new” law, proposes implications for future challenges, and offers concluding remarks on the Indian mascot controversy within Wisconsin.
State Bar of Wisconsin Mining Law Symposium, Thursday, August 25, 2011
The State Bar of Wisconsin will host a Mining Law Symposium CLE on Thursday, August 25, 2011 which in many ways is in response to the proposed mine to be situated in the Penokee-Gogebic Iron Range in northwest Wisconsin, very near the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe Reservation, by Gogebic Taconite.
Here is information on the CLE:
Here is a Milwaukee Sentinel Journal article discussing Bad River Chairman Mike Wiggins’ concerns with the proposed mine:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/119739399.html
Here is recent article describing the mine from Northwoods Wilderness Recovery:
Chronicle of Higher Education: Diversity in Hiring
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Whatever Happened to All Those Plans to Hire More Minority Professors?
Results often fall short of ambitions, but nobody’s giving upBack in the early 1990s, when colleges throughout the United States were desperately trying to recruit more minority professors, Duke University came up with a particularly ambitious plan. It announced that it would double the number of its black professors within a decade.
Did Duke succeed?
Anyone seeking to answer that question — at Duke and at other universities that launched aggressive recruiting plans — should be prepared to do some ferocious number crunching, and to understand that the outcome can depend a lot on who’s doing the counting.
And:
Wisconsin’s record with Hispanic and American Indian faculty members has been stronger. The university had 77 Hispanic professors in 2007, up from 53 in 1998, and 13 American Indian professors, up from four in 1998.
The growth of American Indian studies — in a state that is home to several Indian tribes — has helped attract new American Indian professors to the campus, Mr. Farrell says. “Professors who visit say, ‘OK, here’s a place where people from our background can thrive, fit in, and have success.'”
CA7 Remands Wisconsin & Ho-Chunk Nation Gaming Revenue Sharing Dispute
The Seventh Circuit remanded (again) the dispute over the revenue sharing provisions of the Class III gaming compact between the State of Wisconsin and the Ho-Chunk Nation.
The briefs are here:
Lake Superior Tribes Studying Chemicals in Lake
From 91.3 FM:
News From 91.3 KUWS
Tribes studying chemicals in fish, and what it might do to people
| Story posted Monday at 5:13 p.m.
11/12/2007 |
Chequamegon Bay tribes are investigating the effects of fish contaminants in the greatest of the Great Lakes. Danielle Kaeding reports from Superior.
Lake Superior is facing threats on all sides: from development on it shores to invasive species to the air we breathe. Matt Hudson of the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission says most chemicals in Lake Superior come from the atmosphere. “There’s residual sources of some of these chemicals–like toxifine was used in the southern United States on cotton crops. When you get the right weather pattern, some of that toxifine that’s still in that soil down there can get up into the atmosphere and carried in conveyor belt fashion up to the Great Lakes Region and dumped in rainstorms over the Great Lakes.” Hudson says the Bad River, Fond du Lac and Red Cliff bands sought out GLIFWC’s help. They hope to sort out which chemicals are in fish and what that means when people eat the fish. “Tribal members came to GLIFWC and said, ‘We’re concerned about mercury in fish.’ This was focused more on walleye on inland lakes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan. So, GLIFWC started a contaminant monitoring program. We’ve been measuring mercury in walleye in inland lakes since 1989. We recently started testing Lake Superior fish as well.” Hudson says larger fish tend to contain more contaminants like mercury. “We’re trying to get as much information as we can about fish species that tribal members are eating and concerned about so we can give them the tools to make choices. They’re always going to eat fish. It’s a part of their culture, so we try to give them the species of fish and sizes of fish and information that will help them reduce their risk and maximize benefits.” Hudson says eating fish like herring and whitefish are low in contaminants and can improve heart health over time.
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