May 15, 2008
Registration for 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Registration for the ILPC’s 5th Annual Indigenous Law Conference, Forty Years of the Indian Civil Rights Act, is now available online here.
Entries Tagged as 'Author: Kate E. Fort'
May 12, 2008
NPR on Boarding Schools
NPR’s Morning Edition is running a two-part piece on boarding schools.
For the government, it was a possible solution to the so-called Indian problem. For the tens of thousands of Indians who went to boarding schools, it’s largely remembered as a time of abuse and desecration of culture.
The government still operates a handful of off-reservation boarding [...]
March 29, 2008
Fast Cars and Frybread by Gordon Johnson
From BookSlut:
Gordon Johnson’s Fast Cars and Frybread is a slim volume of collected columns from the Press-Enterprise in Riverside County, California spanning 1993 to 2000 — forty-three of them, to be exact. Johnson is a Cahuilla/Cupeño member of the Pala Indian Reservation. In Johnson’s introduction, he mentions his ambition to pen “life moments [he] [...]
March 19, 2008
Saginaw Chippewa Tribe to address U of M Board of Regents regarding Ancestral Remains held by U of M
From the email announcement:
CALLING OUT FOR SUPPORT!
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe (SCIT) was just notified that
a request was granted to address the University of Michigan’s Board of
Regents during their meeting TOMORROW, Thursday, March 20. The meeting
will begin at 3pm in the Regent’s Room of the Fleming Administration
Bldg. in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Joseph Sowmick, SCIT Public [...]
February 23, 2008
Go MSU NALSA!
Our students have reached the sweet 16 in the National Native American Law Students Association annual moot court competition, held this year in Tempe! Go Alicia and Nova!
February 13, 2008
Bay Mills and Sault Tribe Land Claims Settlement Bills Reported Out of Committee
During a Full Committee MarkUp session today, the House Committee on Natural Resources voted to report HR 2176 (A bill to provide for and approve the settlement of certain land claims of the Bay Mills Indian Community) to the floor of the House of Representatives by a vote of 21 to 5.
The Committee also voted [...]
February 6, 2008
Tsalagi Think Tank blog
Prof. Stacy Leeds just started a new blog at www.stacyleeds.com, called Tsalagi Think Tank. The blog is a Cherokee-centric blog about tribal law, good native governance and education.
January 30, 2008
Voting Rights in Indian Country Panel
We will be hosting a panel tomorrow, January 31, on Voting Rights in Indian Country. Speakers include Laughlin McDonald, Director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project, Dan McCool and Susan Olson, professors at the University of Utah and authors of Native Vote, and Ellen Katz, professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
More about time [...]
January 17, 2008
Indian Health Care Improvement Act Up For Vote in U.S. Senate
Sent to us by Jerilyn Church, Executive Director of the American Indian Health & Family Services of Southeastern MI, Inc.:
Please call your respective United States Senator to ask him or her to vote YES on S. 1200, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which according to the Senate Calendar will come up for consideration [...]
December 19, 2007
Lost “Indian Law” Article by Justice Scalia
Kate Fort dug this up — it’s a Michigan Law Review article from then-Professor Scalia on federal sovereign immunity in the context of public lands cases, pre-APA. Most of the cases he discusses involving Indian lands. His aversion to federal common law is apparent at the end of the article.
