Monthly Archives: August 2009
CFP: Centering Anishinaabeg Studies Book
Call For Papers: Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories Editors: Jill Doerfler, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Niigonwedom James Sinclair Describing how to understand Anishinaabeg cosmology and epistemology in his 1976 book Ojibway Heritage, Basil Johnston writes that “it is … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Call for Papers
A Reception to Benefit the National Indian Child Welfare Association
A Reception to Benefit the National Indian Child Welfare Association You are cordially invited to attend a reception to benefit NICWA. Come and learn more about NICWA’s efforts to improve the lives American Indian children and families, and how you … Continue reading
Filed under Announcements, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Michigan Indian
What’s Going on With Tribal Sovereign Immunity?
Since we started this blog in fall 2007, there have been a plethora of tribal sovereign immunity federal and state court decisions. Most of them are routine — slips and falls, internal tribal disputes — but a handful of these … Continue reading
Cartoon: Constitutional Hipsters
Via Toothpaste for Dinner and Brian:
Filed under Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher
NYTs Tourism Article about Navajo
From the NYTs: ON the road through the tree-studded high desert toward the small town of Chinle, Ariz., the car radio was bringing in the local Navajo station, with a playlist heavy in Top 40 hits, peppered with Navajo-language station … Continue reading
Filed under Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, News
Seattle Weekly Profile of Judge Betty Fletcher
From the Seattle Weekly: Judge Betty’s Revenge Ten years ago, federal judge Betty Fletchersaid she would step aside. It was late in the Clinton administration, and Congressional Republicans, who’d long had it in for the left-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where … Continue reading
Filed under Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Leonard Peltier Denied Parole
From the NYTs: The American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, imprisoned since 1977 for the killing of two F.B.I. agents, was denied parole after officials decided that releasing him would diminish the seriousness of his crime, a federal prosecutor in Bismarck said. … Continue reading
Filed under Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Criminal, News
Call for Papers: Law and Lit at CUNY — 2010
Kevin Maillard at Faculty Lounge has posted a call for papers for CUNY’s Law and Literature symposium. As the organizers and hosts of the only (so far) symposium on American Indian Law and Literature (our 2007 Indigenous Law Conference), and … Continue reading
Student Note on the Arizona Snowbowl Case
Here is “Making Snow in the Desert: Defining a Substantial Burden under RFRA,” published in the Ecology Law Quarterly. An excerpt: Judge Fletcher’s opinion in Navajo Nation reflected a determined effort to reconcile the statutory provisions of RFRA with the … Continue reading
American Indian Tribal Law
Facing the Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30
Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed.)
The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
