From the press release:
As part of President Obama’s commitment to fulfilling this nation’s trust responsibilities to Native Americans, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today named five prominent American Indians to a national commission that will undertake a forward-looking, comprehensive evaluation of Interior’s trust management of nearly $4 billion in Native American trust funds.
The members of the Commission are Fawn Sharp, President of the Quinault Nation, Dr. Peterson Zah, former President of Navajo Nation, Stacy Leeds, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, Tex Hall, Chairman of the Inter Tribal Economic Alliance, and Bob Anderson, Oneida Nations Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard. Additional biographical details and information about the commission are available on the press release. Congratulations!
ETA–here is a corrected press release. Tex Hall is also the current Chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes.
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
The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty
