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Tribal Law & Government Center
Effectively representing Indian nations and tribes requires an understanding of the laws, history and policies that affect them. The complexity of "Indian law," and the lack of specific programs designed to educate graduates about the unique legal and cultural needs of Indian people, has created a situation in which lawyers representing Indian tribes place too great an emphasis on state law and federal law when dealing with Indian nations. As a result, these lawyers may unconsciously be contributing to the weakening of unique tribal legal and governance traditions by recommending the adoption of tribal laws and policies founded upon the Anglo-American legal and political traditions rather than the unique traditions of their tribal clients.
Through its activities, the Tribal Law & Government Center at KU Law aims to equip students and legal professionals who will represent Indian nations with the skills necessary to appreciate and strengthen the unique nature of indigenous tribal legal systems.
Core Courses
- Sovereignty, Self-Determination and the Indigenous Nations
- Native American Natural Resources
- Federal Indian Law
- Comparative Law
- Special Topics in American Indian Law (such as Indian Gaming and Economic Development in Indian Country)
Related Courses
- Federal Courts and the Federal System
- Legislation
- Public International Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Business Associations I
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Water Law
- Local Government Law
- Oil and Gas
Tribal Lawyer Certificate
The Tribal Lawyer Certificate program is designed to ensure that law students aspiring to a career representing Indian nations have the skills necessary to appreciate and strengthen the unique nature of indigenous tribal legal systems.
JD/MA in Indigenous Studies
KU Law's joint degree program in law and indigenous studies allows students to graduate with both the J.D. and an M.A. in Indigenous Studies in seven semesters, including summer school. The program aspires to facilitate the protection and strengthening of indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and self-sufficiency in indigenous nations throughout the Americas. The University of Kansas was the third institution of higher learning in the United States to offer a joint degree program relating to indigenous peoples.
Clinics & Field Placements
The Tribal Judicial Support Clinic gives second- and third-year students the opportunity to assist tribal court systems through a variety of projects. Although the Tribal Law & Government Center gives priority to the research requests of regional tribes (Kansas and Oklahoma), clinical students have worked on projects for tribal courts throughout the nation.
Students also may be interested in the Legislative Field Placement Program, in which they intern for members of the Kansas Legislature and study advocacy in the legislative process.
Tribal Law & Government Conference
Each year, KU hosts the Tribal Law & Government Conference, which devotes significant scholarly attention to the study of organic tribal law, modern tribal governments and the evolution of tribal common law. The conference highlights how works of scholars and tribal jurists addressing the emerging and historical problems of indigenous law and governance are critical to strengthening tribal sovereignty.
22nd Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
Tribal-State Collaborations: Advantages & Obstacles
Friday, March 9, 2018 | Green Hall | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
Registration is now closed. If you have questions about the event, please contact Emily Sharp at email@example.com.
CLE Credit and Lunch
5 hours of CLE credit, including 1 hour of ethics, are approved for Kansas and Missouri. Attorneys who wish to receive CLE credit will be assessed a fee. CLE materials will be posted electronically on this page for review and printing. Materials will not be available the day of the program in a paper version. All materials must be accessed electronically.
Lunch will be provided.
Parking is available for $1.75 for the first hour and $1.50 for each additional hour in the Allen Fieldhouse Parking Garage, just southeast of Green Hall. Visitors who park in surface lots near the law school will be ticketed.
Program Accessibility
We accommodate persons with disabilities. Please submit your request no later than February 24 to email@example.com or 785-864-9208 TTY: 711.
Cancellation Policy
All cancellations received on or before March 6 will be refunded 100 percent. No refunds will be allowed after that time.
Contact Professor Elizabeth Kronk Warner at 785-864-1139 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
|Check-in and Continental Breakfast
|Honor Song and Welcome
Ron Brave, Haskell Indian Nations University
Dean Stephen Mazza, University of Kansas School of Law
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Professor and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, University of Kansas School of Law; Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center; Affiliated Professor, Indigenous Studies
|Keynote Speaker
Judge William Thorne
|Panel One | Collaborations between State and Tribal Courts
Moderator: Benjamin Stringer, 3L and KU Native American Law Students Association President
Hon. Mike Petoskey, Chief Judge, Pokagon Band | CLE materials (PDF)
Hon. Korey Wahwassuck, Judge, Ninth Judicial District, Minnesota | CLE materials (PDF)
This panel will discuss the advantages of and obstacles to effective collaboration between tribal courts and state courts, from both an attorney's and judge's perspective. The panel will discuss legal developments related to several topics including jurisdiction, comity, and full faith and credit.
|Lunch, Commons Area, Green Hall
Professor Matthew Fletcher
Related article (PDF)
|Panel Two | Tribal/State Collaborations Related to Law Enforcement, ICWA, and Cultural Preservation
Moderator: Samantha Wagner, 2L, KU Native American Law Students Association Vice-President
Sarah Deer Professor, International & Interdisciplinary Studies - Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, School of Public Affairs & Administration, University of Kansas | CLE materials (PDF)
Victoria Sweet, Program Attorney, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges | CLE materials (PDF)
Tonya Kowalski, Professor, Washburn Law School | CLE materials (PDF)
This panel will explore how tribes and states are collaborating on issues related to law enforcement (Sarah Deer), the Indian Child Welfare Act (Victoria Sweet), and cultural preservation (Tonya Kowalski). Panelists will discuss legal obstacles to effective collaboration and provide suggestions for how collaboration might be improved moving forward.
|Ethics | Maintaining Tribal Confidences
Heather Whiteman Runs Him Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund | CLE materials (PDF)
This presentation will focus on unique ethical conflicts that attorneys working in Indian country are likely to face. The presentation will discuss: 1) who is the client when working with a tribe; 2) ethical communication; 3) the culture of community/tribe; 4) history of attorney roles in tribes; 5) competing ethical demands on tribal member attorneys; and 6) coordination with outside counsel.
|Concluding Remarks
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) has worked to end violence against women for over 25 years and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2014. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of federal Indian law and victims' rights. Deer is a co-author of four textbooks on tribal law. Her latest book is The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America, which has received several awards. Her work on violence against Native women has received national recognition from the American Bar Association and the Department of Justice. She serves as Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals. Deer is a professor of International & Interdisciplinary Studies in Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies and the School of Public Affairs & Administration at the University of Kansas. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law and holds a bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and Philosophy from the University of Kansas.
Matthew L.M. Fletcher is Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He sits as the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also sits as an appellate judge for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians, and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska. He is a member of the Grand Traverse Band, located in Peshawbestown, Michigan.
Fletcher is the Reporter for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of American Indians. He recently published a hornbook, Federal Indian Law (West Academic Publishing 2016). Professor Fletcher co-authored the sixth and seventh editions of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (West Publishing 2011 and 2017). With Wenona Singel and Kathryn Fort, Professor Fletcher is under contract with the American Bar Association to write a tribal law practice guide. He also authored American Indian Tribal Law (Aspen 2011), the first casebook for law students on tribal law; The Return of the Eagle: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Michigan State University Press 2012); and American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law (Routledge 2008). He co-edited The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty with Kristen A. Carpenter and Angela R. Riley (UCLA American Indian Studies Press 2012), and Facing the Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 with Wenona T. Singel and Kathryn E. Fort (Michigan State University Press 2009). Professor Fletcher's scholarship has been cited twice by the United States Supreme Court; in more than a dozen federal, state, and tribal courts; in dozens of federal, state, and tribal court briefs; and in hundreds of law review articles and other secondary legal authorities. Finally, Professor Fletcher is the primary editor and author of the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy, Turtle Talk.
Fletcher graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 and the University of Michigan in 1994. He has worked as a staff attorney for four Indian Tribes – the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Grand Traverse Band He previously sat on the judiciaries of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians; and served as a consultant to the Seneca Nation of Indians Court of Appeals. He is married to Wenona Singel, a member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and they have two sons, Owen and Emmett.
Tonya Kowalski is a contributing faculty member in the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, co-hosted at Washburn Law. Before joining Washburn Law, she was a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor in the Indian Legal Clinic at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Kowalski spent several years litigating commercial, domestic and appellate cases in Oregon and Washington as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also worked as a legal writing consultant During law school, she was a member of the Duke Law Journal and a co-director of the Domestic Violence Advocacy Project. Her writing affiliations include membership in the Association of Legal Writing Directors, The Legal Writing Institute and Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers. Kowalski teaches in the law school's Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing Program, is the Director of International Legal Programs and Co-Director of the International and Comparative Law Center. She holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and a bachelor's in political science from the University of Florida.
Michael Petoskey was appointed as the Pokagon Band's first chief judge on February 14, 2002. Chief Judge Petoskey is a Grand Traverse Band member, a licensed Michigan attorney, and a Viet Nam veteran, serving as an infantry medic. He has been a judge for various Michigan Indian tribes since 1986. Chief Judge Petoskey began his judicial career with the planning, implementation and development of Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians Tribal Court, while he was a staff attorney for Michigan Indian Legal Services. He was the chief judge for his tribe for over 16 years until his retirement from the position. Chief Judge Petoskey's career interest has been working with newly-reaffirmed tribes to plan, implement and develop their courts from just a dream. In 2006 he retired from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians after nine years service as chief judge after starting the court there. Chief Judge Petoskey recently retired as chief justice of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Court of Appeals, a position he has held from 1999 to 2009. In addition, he served as an associate justice of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan Court of Appeals from 2002 to 2006. In 1992 the Michigan Bar Journal recognized Judge Petoskey as a Citizen Lawyer for his contributions in law to the tribal community. In 1997 he was named, along with eleven other attorneys, Lawyer of the Year by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, a legal newspaper. In 1999 the Grand Traverse Band Tribal Court was one of sixteen tribal programs nationwide honored as an outstanding example of tribal governance by The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2000 the American Indian Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan honored Judge Petoskey and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Michael Cavanagh with the section's annual Tecumseh Peacekeeping Award for their leadership in moving State of Michigan courts and tribal courts away from conflict and toward cooperation.
Victoria Sweet serves as Program Attorney at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. She is licensed in Minnesota. Sweet received her JD from Michigan State University College of Law with a certificate in Indigenous Law and Policy, attended the Pre-Law Summer Institute at the American Indian Law Center, and earned her MAEd and BA from George Wythe University. She worked as the legal fellow at the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law, spent a summer working at the White Earth Tribal Court, a summer working at the Indian Law Resource Center, and was both a research assistant and teaching assistant for Professors Matthew Fletcher and Wenona Singel. Prior to her legal career, Sweet was a high school teacher and educational lecturer. She has presented at national and international conferences on topics such as human trafficking, violence against Native women, ICWA compliance, protection orders and intergenerational trauma and provides technical assistance to both state and tribal court judges, attorneys, advocates and court staff. Sweet's publications include articles on the human trafficking of Native women and girls and the violence against and exploitation of Native women. She is a descendant of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe.
Honorable William A. Thorne, Jr. (Pomo Tribe) is a Pomo/Coast Miwok Indian from northern California and is enrolled at the Confederated Tribes of the Graton Rancheria. He received his B.A. from the University of Santa Clara in 1974 where he played and coached soccer. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1977. Admitted to the Utah Bar, he practiced law with Larry EchoHawk for several years at EchoHawk & Thorne, where the firm represented the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes as well as individuals and businesses with an emphasis on Federal Indian Law. In 1979 Thorne began his service as a tribal court judge with an appointment as a pro tem judge at the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Court. Since that time he has served as a tribal judge in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Wisconsin, Washington, Michigan, and California. In 1986, Judge Thorne was appointed by the governor as a trial judge for the State of Utah. After 14 years as a state trial judge he was appointed in 2000 as a judge of the Utah Court of Appeals and is now retired. Judge Thorne is the first Native American appointed to the Utah Bench
Judge Korey Wahwassuck was appointed to Minnesota's Ninth Judicial District by Governor Mark Dayton in 2013 and elected in 2014. She holds a J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law and a bachelors of journalism from the University of Missouri. Wahwassuck has served as Associate Judge of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Court and Tribal Attorney for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. She is a solo practitioner in Kansas and Missouri and former adjunct instructor at Leech Lake Tribal College. Wahwassuck helped found and preside over the Leech Lake-Cass County-Itasca County Wellness Courts, the first joint tribal-state jurisdiction courts in the nation.
Heather Whiteman Runs Him is a staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, Colorado, where she focuses on tribal water rights and natural resource issues. She previously served as Joint Lead Counsel for the Crow Tribe of Montana, where she oversaw and was responsible for a wide variety of legal issues pertaining to intergovernmental relations, tribal land management, water rights, elections, health and social services, law enforcement, economic development, and general litigation issues. Prior to working with the Crow Tribe, White Man Runs Him practiced in New Mexico as an Assistant Public Defender and worked as an associate attorney in private practice, serving tribal governmental clients on a wide variety of issues. She is a member of the Crow Tribe and grew up on the Crow Reservation. White Man Runs Him holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She received her B.A.F.A. with high honors in Art History, and with honors in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and her A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is licensed to practice law before the State Bar of New Mexico, the District of New Mexico, and the Crow Tribal Court.
Past conferences
21st Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
"Indian Gaming in the 21st Century"
Friday, March 10, 2017 | Green Hall | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
The 2017 Tribal Law & Government Conference at the University of Kansas School of Law will discuss the legal issues surrounding Indian gaming throughout the United States and in Kansas, as well as provide a brief introduction to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA).
CLE Credit and Lunch
Six hours of CLE credit, including 1 hour of ethics, are approved for Kansas and Missouri. Attorneys who wish to receive CLE credit will be assessed a $50 fee. CLE materials will be posted electronically on this page for review and printing. Materials will not be available the day of the program in a paper version. All materials must be accessed electronically.
|Check-in and Continental Breakfast
Dean Stephen Mazza, University of Kansas School of Law
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Professor and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, University of Kansas School of Law; Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center; Affiliated Professor, Indigenous Studies
Ron Brave, Haskell Indian Nations University
|Keynote Speaker
Chairman Jonodev Chaudhuri, National Indian Gaming Commission | CLE materials (PDF)
Introduction: Nathan Whitham, 3L and President, KU Native American Law Students Association
|Panel | Hot Topics in Indian Gaming
Moderator: Associate Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner, KU Law
Richard Frias, Partner, Frias Indian Law and Policy | CLE materials (PDF)
Steven Light, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy, University of North Dakota | CLE materials (PDF)
Yonne Tiger, Attorney at Law | CLE materials (PDF)
|Lunch, Commons Area, Green Hall
|Panel | Hot Topics in Indian Gaming (Kansas)
Moderator: Andrew Kershen, 3L and Treasurer, KU Native American Law Students Association
Russ Brien, Brien Law LLC | CLE materials (PDF)
Mark Dodd, Executive Director, Kansas State Gaming Agency | CLE materials (PDF)
|Ethics | Ethical 'Obligations' and Affirmative Tribal Sovereignty
Moderator: Nick Hayes, 3L and Vice President, KU Native American Law Students Association
Kaighn Smith Jr., Drummond Woodson, Attorneys at Law | CLE materials (PDF)
|Concluding Remarks
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri
Chairman, National Indian Gaming Commission
The NIGC is the primary federal agency responsible for regulating and ensuring the integrity of the $28 billion Indian gaming industry, consisting of more than 450 Indian gaming facilities, associated with nearly 242 tribes across 28 states. Chaudhuri brings to the NIGC extensive policy, legal and judicial experience and a lifelong commitment to serving the Native American community. His varied experiences each stem from his understanding of the connection between the development of strong governmental institutions and Native American self-determination.
Prior to his designation as Acting Chairman by President Obama in October 2013, he served as Associate Commissioner and Vice Chair. Chaudhuri was initially appointed to the Commission by the Secretary of Interior in September of 2013. Prior to joining the NIGC, Chaudhuri was Senior Counselor to the Department of the Interior's Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, where he provided guidance and assistance on a wide range of national policy issues, including Indian gaming, economic development, energy, Alaska affairs and tribal recognition.
He has practiced law for over a decade, primarily in private practice serving tribes and tribal entities. Additionally, Chaudhuri has served as a judge on five different tribal courts, including serving his tribe as Chief Justice of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court. Chaudhuri's professional background also includes work as a community organizer, adjunct professor and author. He graduated with a bachelor's of arts degree from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Cornell Law School.
Russ Brien
Brien Law LLC
Russ Brien (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska) owns Brien Law LLC. His practice almost exclusively involves working with tribes and tribal business enterprises on a variety of issues, with an emphasis on economic development, gaming, infrastructure and doing business in Indian country. Outside of his law practice, Russ works with the Falmouth Institute as a trainer and speaker. He provides tribal leader training on a variety of topics including federal Indian law, tribal economic development, land consolidation, estate planning in Indian country, protection of tribal records, ethics for tribal leaders, negotiation, and tribal constitutions and bylaws. A former partner in the corporate finance group of a large Kansas City based firm, Russ has a broad background in business, securities, finance and municipal law. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America for Structured Finance Law. He has taught at the University of Kansas School of Law since 2007.
Mark Dodd
Executive Director, Kansas State Gaming Agency
Mark Dodd, Cherokee Tribe of Oklahoma, was appointed Executive Director of the Kansas State Gaming Agency by Governor Brownback in 2011. Dodd has served as general counsel/tribal attorney for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. He holds a JD from the University of Kansas and completed the Tribal Lawyer Certificate Program as part of his degree. While in law school, he held the position of Student Director for the Tribal Law & Government Center for one and a half years and served as vice president of the Native American Law Students Association chapter at KU.
Richard Frias
Partner, Frias Indian Law and Policy
Richard Frias graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law. He formerly served as Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of the Pueblo of Pojoaque in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Steven Light
As co-director of the Institute for the Study of Tribal Gaming Law and Policy, Light is a leading expert on Indian gaming and tribal-state-federal intergovernmental relations. His 50 publications include three books on tribal gaming, the first of which, "Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise," was featured on C-SPAN2's Book TV. Light has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and is a regular commentator in such media as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. In 2014, Light and frequent collaborator Kathryn R.L. Rand (Dean, UND School of Law) published a revised edition of their second book, "Indian Gaming Law and Policy." They have spoken at industry conferences including the Global Gaming Expo and National Indian Gaming Association, and such schools as Boston University, Stanford, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Kaighn Smith Jr.
Drummond Woodsum Attorneys at Law
Kaighn Smith Jr. leads Drummond Woodsum's nationwide Indian Law Practice Group. He has represented Indian nations and their enterprises for over 25 years. A litigator, his cases focus on all aspects of federal Indian law. He has won cases for Indian nations' interests in a wide range of areas, including jurisdiction and sovereignty disputes, gaming matters, labor and employment relations, land-in-trust and environmental matters, and fishing and water rights. He represents clients in the federal, tribal, and state courts and before federal administrative agencies across the country.
In 2011, Kaighn published the leading treatise, Labor and Employment Law in Indian Country, with the Native American Rights Fund. Since 2012, he has served as associate reporter (with Professors Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Wenona Singel) on the Restatement of American Indian Law for the American Law Institute. He is listed in Chambers USA and in Best Lawyers in America for the category of Native American Law. Kaighn clerked for Judge Frank M. Coffin at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Justice Louis Scolnik at the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. He serves as Adjunct Professor of American Indian Law at the University of Maine School of Law.
Yonne Tiger
Attorney at Law
Yonne Tiger received her law degree from the University of Kansas with a certificate in Tribal Lawyering. During law school, she interned for the State of Kansas House of Representatives and for the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. As an intern for the Kansas House of Representatives, she gained first-hand knowledge of the legislative process through her involvement with legislative committees. During her work with the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court she did extensive research and writing for the appellate court. She also served as the National Native American Law Stusdent Association Area Director and Public Relations Director, and the University of Kansas NALSA President.
Prior to the formation of Aston|Mathis|Jacobson|Campbell|Tiger, Tiger worked as an Assistant Attorney General for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Department of Justice and most recently as In-House Counsel to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation National Council. Tiger's work at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation included litigation, research and writing, advice on protocol and parliamentarian procedures, and extensive code work through drafting legislation. Prior to working for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Tiger worked in private practice. She has experience in the areas of Tribal Law, Federal Indian Law, Tribal Governance, Personal Injury and Contract Law.
20th Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
"Examining and Reconsidering Indian Mascots in the 21st Century"
Friday, March 11, 2016 | Green Hall | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
The 2016 Tribal Law & Government Conference at the University of Kansas School of Law will discuss the legal issues surrounding the use of images of American Indians as sports mascots. The conference is co-sponsored by the KU Tribal Law & Government Center and KU Student Senate.
CLE Credit and Lunch
2.5 hours of CLE credit, including 1 hour of ethics, are approved for Kansas and Missouri. Attorneys who wish to receive CLE credit will be assessed a $25 fee. CLE materials will be posted electronically in the schedule below for review and printing. Materials will not be available the day of the program in a paper version. All materials must be accessed electronically.
|Check-in and Continental Breakfast
Dean Stephen Mazza, University of Kansas School of Law
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Professor and Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, University of Kansas School of Law; Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center; Affiliated Professor, Indigenous Studies
Ron Brave, Haskell Indian Nations University
|Keynote Speaker
Suzan Shown Harjo, President, Morning Star Institute
|Panel | Considering Mascots from a Native Perspective
Moderator: Kelsey Treuil, 3L and Vice President, KU Native American Law Students Association
Cornel Pewewardy, Professor & Director of Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University
Rebecca Tsosie, Regents' Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Vice Provost for Inclusion and Community Engagement at Arizona State University | Supplemental materials (PDF)
Dan Wildcat, Director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and Dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at Haskell Indian Nations University
|Lunch, Commons Area, Green Hall
1.5 CLE credits
|Panel | Intellectual Property and Sports Law Perspectives on Native Mascots
Moderator: Corey Adams, 3L and Secretary, KU Native American Law Students Association
Marc Edelman, Professor Law and Sports Business Scholar, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College CUNY | CLE materials (PDF)
Jasmine Abdel-Kahlik, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law | CLE materials (PDF)
1.0 CLE credits
|Ethics Panel | Ethical Considerations when Representing Tribal Nations
Moderator: Jason Vigil, 3L and Treasurer, KU Native American Law Students Association
D. Michael McBride III, Director, Crowe & Dunlevy | CLE materials (PDF)
|Concluding Remarks
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Supplemental Materials
Use of Seminole Symbols and Imagery (PDF)
Dayton Michael Cramer, Deputy General Counsel, Florida State University
Suzan Shown Harjo
President, Morning Star Institute
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is an advocate for American Indian rights. She is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate, who has helped Native peoples recover more than 1 million acres of tribal lands. After co-producing the first Indian news show in the nation for WBAI radio while living in New York City and producing other shows and theater, in 1974 she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on national policy issues. She served as Congressional Liaison for Indian Affairs during the Carter administration and later as president of the National Council of American Indians.
Harjo is president of the Morning Star Institute, a national Native American rights organization. Since the 1960s, she has worked on getting sports teams to drop names that promote negative stereotypes of Native Americans. In June 2014, the Patent and Trademark revoked the Washington Redskins trademark; the owner said he would appeal. By 2013 two-thirds of teams with American Indian mascots had changed them due to these public campaigns. On November 24, 2014, Harjo received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor
Cornel Pewewardy
Professor and Director, Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University
Dr. Cornel Pewewardy (Comanche-Kiowa) is professor and director of Indigenous Nations Studies at Portland State University. His research explores Native American mascots in schools and media, recruiting/retention of Native students in higher education, Indigenous teaching praxis, Indigenous urban and reservation-based teacher education, culturally responsive tribal colleges, transformational Indigenous schools, Indigenous identity (de)construction, Indigenous community-based participatory research methods, and ethnomusicology (digitizing tribal music). Dr. Pewewardy was one the first musicians to win the highly coveted Musical Artist of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storyteller in 1997. Among other musical honors, Cornel has received the Phoenix Award by the Lawrence (KS) Arts Commission's contribution to music and arts in 1998. He sings Southern Plains powwow songs, composes songs and plays the Native American flute. As a music composer, his songs reveal an interest in the evolution of Southern Plains powwow and gourd dance songs, and over time were shaped by the training of elder tribal singers. Cornel's music is recorded on Sound of America Records (SOAR), Music of the World, Shortwave Records, and Smithsonian Institute.
Rebecca Tsosie
Regents' Professor, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Rebecca Tsosie is a Regents' Professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the vice provost for inclusion and community engagement at Arizona State University. She is also a faculty affiliate for the American Indian Studies Program and the Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College. Professor Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, joined the ASU College of Law faculty in 1994 and served as the Executive Director of the law school's Indian Legal Program from 1996-2011. She teaches in the areas of Federal Indian law, Constitutional law, Property, Cultural Resources law, Bioethics and Critical Race Theory. Professor Tsosie has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy, and cultural rights. Professor Tsosie's current research deals with Native rights to genetic resources. She has worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations, and serves as an appellate judge for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation's Supreme Court and the San Carlos Apache Tribe's Court of Appeals. Professor Tsosie received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is admitted to practice in Arizona and California. She is the co-author of a federal Indian law casebook titled "American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System."
Daniel R. Wildcat
Director, Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and Dean, College of Natural and Social Sciences, Haskell Indian Nations University
Daniel R. Wildcat, Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, is the director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. After serving two years in the U.S. Army, Wildcat attended KU where he received both his bachelor's and master's in sociology. He said it was during the first week of his undergraduate classes that he decided he wanted to become a professor. A staunch advocate of tribal colleges and universities, Wildcat said he believes Indian colleges and universities deserve broader recognition for their contributions to academia and society. Wildcat has authored a variety of books, including Power and Place: Indian Education in America, which he co-wrote with the late Vine Deloria Jr.
In his 25 years at Haskell Indian Nations University, Wildcat has been invited to guest lecture at Harvard Medical School and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Last April, he co-chaired the Rights of Mother Earth Symposium with Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network at Haskell. Wildcat intends to make the symposium an annual event.
Marc Edelman
Associate Professor of Law, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York
Marc Edelman specializes in sports law, antitrust, intellectual property, and gaming law. Professor Edelman is cited by the media on a wide range of sports law topics, including how the Sherman Act applies to professional sports leagues, how gaming laws apply to fantasy sports contests, and the legal issues pertaining to NCAA amateurism. His publications on sports law have been cited by three Supreme Court briefs, numerous textbooks, and more than 100 law review articles.
A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a cum laude graduate of Michigan Law School, Edelman began his professional career by practicing antitrust and sports law with the law firms Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP and Dewey Ballantine LLP. He has also taught on the full-time faculty at the Barry University School of Law and at Rutgers School of Law-Camden. During the summers, Edelman teaches a course on Professional Sports and the Law at Fordham University School of Law. He also writes a column on sports law for Forbes SportsMoney, and provides legal consulting to clients in the areas of intellectual property, sports law and gaming law.
Jasmine Abdel-Khalik
Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Jasmine Abdel-Khalik joined the UMKC School of Law in 2005. She teaches courses in the intellectual property, unfair competition, and commercial realms, including Contracts I and II, Business Torts & Unfair Competition, Intellectual Property Litigation, Advance Trademark, and Intellectual Property. In the context of her teaching, Abdel-Khalik has been honored to receive the Elmer F. Pierson Good Teaching Award in 2010, a UMKC Student Government Association Apple Polisher Award in 2012, and the Outstanding Professor Award as voted by the graduating class in 2012 and 2014. Interested in how language within intellectual property interests affect broader social concerns, Abdel-Khalik's research focuses on various aspects of trademark and copyright law as well as contract formation and interpretation issues. Most recently, she has been examining how intellectual property doctrine may re-entrench existing stereotypes and biases as well as the intersect of intellectual property laws and protection of speech. Her research was recognized by her colleagues in 2007 with the Daniel E. Brenner Faculty Publishing Award.
Prior to joining the faculty, Abdel-Khalik was a practicing attorney in Chicago, Illinois, initially with Baker & McKenzie and then with Freeborn & Peters. Her practice areas included trademark, advertising and marketing compliance, patent litigation, and general commercial litigation, including breach of contract and antitrust matters. A Florida native, Abdel-Khalik earned her B.A. from Cornell University in 1997 in history and sociology and her J.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000.
D. Michael McBride III
Director, Crowe & Dunlevy
D. Michael McBride III is a trial, appellate and business lawyer with Crowe & Dunlevy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a sought-after and trusted advisor with particular expertise in gaming, federal Indian law, litigation and complex transactions. McBride has tried more than 50 cases to conclusion in federal, tribal and state courts including numerous jury trials; as a judge and justice, he has adjudicated scores more and authored many published decisions. He excels in gaming regulatory matters, bet-the-tribe litigation, tribal government matters, economic development and regulatory matters. Corporations, investment funds and individuals have hired him as an expert consultant and as an expert witness in multiple federal state court cases to testify on Indian gaming matters. He chairs Crowe & Dunlevy's Indian Law & Gaming practice group.
McBride served as justice of the Pawnee Nation Supreme Court from 2003 until 2012. He is the former attorney general to the Seminole Nation and the Sac and Fox Nation. During his career, McBride has represented more than 20 Indian tribal governments or their entities, numerous corporations and individuals doing business with tribes. He is one of only two Oklahoma general members of the International Masters of Gaming Law (IMGL) and serves as the exclusive organization's treasurer.
McBride regularly speaks at conferences and symposia throughout the country and internationally and has authored more than fifty published articles. He has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Tulsa and adjunct settlement judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. McBride has also held various leadership roles in the American Bar Association. He is a graduate of Trinity University (B.A. 1989) and the University of Oklahoma (J.D. 1993), where he received many awards and academic distinctions.
19th Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
"The Future of Indian Education"
Friday, March 13, 2015 | Burge Union | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS
The 2015 Tribal Law & Government Conference at the University of Kansas School of Law will discuss the status quo of Indian education and how it might change in the future based on President Obama's recent commitment to reform.
CLE Credit and Lunch
2.5 hours of CLE credit, including 1 hour of ethics, are approved for Kansas and Missouri. Attorneys who wish to receive CLE credit will be assessed a $25 fee. CLE materials are available electronically in the schedule below for review and printing. Materials will not be available the day of the program in a paper version. All materials must be accessed electronically.
|Check-in and Continental Breakfast
|Welcome Remarks
Dean Stephen Mazza, University of Kansas School of Law
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law; Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center; Affiliated Professor, Indigenous Studies
|Morning Keynote Speaker
Surveying Indian Education and Legal Reform (PDF)
Kevin Washburn, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior
Introduction: Jason Harmon, third-year KU Law student
This presentation will focus broadly on two issues. First, the presentation will begin with an overview of Indian education and the federal government's role in Indian education. Second, the presentation will explore the wide variety of proposed Indian educational reform nationwide, focusing on legal developments.
|Panel | History of Indian Education and the Status Quo
President Venida Chenault, Haskell Indian Nations University
Mandy Smoker Broaddus, Director of Indian Education, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Connor Warner, Instructor for Urban Teacher Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Moderator: Amanda Angell, third-year KU Law student
This panel presentation will focus on the history of Indian education from both higher education and K-12 perspectives. The panel will begin with a discussion of Indian higher education, focusing on tribal colleges and universities. The panel will then move to a survey discussion of Indian education in K-12 institutions nationwide. The panel will conclude with a deeper discussion of how Indian education at the K-12 level is implemented in one state, Montana.
|Lunch, Relays Room, Burge Union
1.5 CLE credits
|Panel | Legal Reform of Indian Education
Dawn Baum (PDF), Senior Attorney and Indian Education Team Leader, U.S. Department of Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Bureau of Indian Education
Jill Eichner (PDF), Attorney, U.S. Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel
Melody McCoy (PDF), Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
William Mendoza, Executive Director, White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education
Moderator: Annette McDonough, third-year KU Law student
This panel will focus on proposed legal reforms to Indian education. The panel will begin with a nationwide survey of proposed legal reforms to Indian education. Following this national survey, the panel will examine proposed federal reforms, specifically focusing on the White House Initiative, Bureau of Education within the Department of the Interior and Department of Education activities.
1.0 CLE credits
|Ethics | Ethical Considerations for Tribal Lawyers and Judges (PDF)
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law; Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center; Affiliated Professor, Indigenous Studies
This presentation will examine ethical quandaries that typically face tribal lawyers and judges. Specifically, the presentation will address appearances of impropriety, ex parte communications, the duty of competence, confidentiality, disqualification and tribal codes of ethics.
|Concluding Remarks
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Kevin Washburn
Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior (tentatively confirmed)
An enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, Kevin Washburn was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior on September 21, 2012, and was sworn into office by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on October 9, 2012. Washburn came to the Department of the Interior from the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he served as dean. Prior to that, he served as the Rosentiel Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and as an associate professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Washburn is a well-known scholar of federal Indian law. Among his other books and articles, he is a co-author and editor of the leading legal treatise in the field of Indian law, Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2012 edition). Washburn was raised in Oklahoma and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with honors from the University of Oklahoma (1989). He also received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (1993), where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation.
Dr. Venida S. Chenault
President, Haskell Indian Nations University
A member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas, Venida S. Chenault is an experienced educator and administrator in higher education. She is the author of the book, "Weaving Strength Weaving Power: Violence and Abuse Against Indigenous Women" (Carolina Academic Press, 2011), which focuses on the phenomenon of violence against First Nations women. She is a recognized public speaker on her work related to violence and abuse. Chenault has successful authored a wide range of grants benefiting Haskell Indian Nations University and numerous articles on empowerment and First Nations People during her career. She has provided leadership at Haskell in numerous capacities since 1991. She was even a student at Haskell in the fall of 1975 and spring of 1984 and later attended the University of Kansas, where she earned a bachelor's in social work in 1986, a master's in social work in 1990 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 2004. She has received several awards, including Haskell Outstanding Alumni of the Year (Spring 2009) and the Crystal Eagle Indigenous Leadership Award, Center for Indigenous Studies, University of Kansas (Spring 2005).
Mandy Smoker Broaddus
Director of Indian Education, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Mandy Smoker Broaddus graduated from Seaver College, Pepperdine University and has served since 2009 as the director of Indian Education for the state of Montana. Broaddus is a member of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine tribes from northeastern Montana.
Connor Warner
Instructor for Urban Teacher Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Connor K. Warner joined the UMKC School of Education faculty in August 2014 as an Instructor of Urban Teacher Education. He is also a doctoral candidate in the KU Department of Curriculum & Teaching, where he is scheduled to defend his dissertation, "Formative Impacts of High-Stakes Portfolio Assessment on Pre-service English Teachers: A Qualitative Study of KPTP Construction and Submission," in June 2015. Prior to arriving at UMKC, Warner served as the English Department Chair at Stevensville High School, Stevensville, Montana, where he helped revise the school's curriculum to integrate Montana's Indian Education for All initiative. His research interests include educational content standards, pre-service teacher education and Indian education, and his work has been published in both national and international education journals. His most recent scholarship focuses on representations of contemporary American Indians within state social studies content standards. In addition to his work at UMKC, Warner also serves as an assistant examiner for the International Baccalaureate, a reader for the Advanced Placement World History Exam, and a volunteer adjunct instructor at Haskell Indian Nations University. He grew up in and around the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Eastern Montana, and received his B.S.Ed. from Montana State University-Billings and his M.Ed. from Texas Tech University.
Dawn Baum
Senior Attorney and Indian Education Team Leader, U.S. Department of Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Bureau of Indian Education
Dawn Sturdevant Baum is a senior attorney and Indian Education Team leader in the D.C. office of the Department of the Interior's Office of the Solicitor. She counsels the Bureau of Indian Education at DOI, which operates federal schools for Indians and provides grants and other funding to tribal schools. She transferred to this position in 2012 from the National Indian Gaming Commission's Office of General Counsel, where she served as the Tulsa Regional Attorney handling matters such as approval of tribal gaming codes, review of financial agreements, investigation and enforcement of gaming violations, Indian land opinions, and regulatory review. Previously, Baum was an attorney with the Native American Rights Fund's Washington, D.C., office, working on tribal codes and constitutions, education, federal recognition, and state and federal litigation. Baum graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2001. She also holds an LL.M. in American Indian Law from the University of Tulsa and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Beloit College. Baum is a past president and active member of the Native American Bar Association of D.C. and was also a contributing editor to the Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Section newsletter. She is finishing up three years of service on the ABA's Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline. Baum is an enrolled member of the Mole Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin and is also Menominee. She is licensed to practice in Wisconsin, New Mexico, the District of Columbia, the Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation tribal courts.
Jill Eichner
Attorney, U.S. Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel
Jill Eichner is an attorney at the U.S. Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel. She specializes in three program areas: English Language Learners (Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)), Indian Education (Title VII of the ESEA) and Impact Aid (Title VIII of the ESEA). She previously worked as a teacher of English Language Learners in Arlington, Virginia, and also held several nonprofit positions in the fields of early childhood and adult education. Eichner is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan Law School.
Melody McCoy
Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
Melody McCoy joined the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) as a staff attorney in 1986. At NARF, McCoy has worked primarily in the areas of jurisdiction in Indian country, tribal rights in education, tribal intellectual property rights, and tribal trust funds. McCoy is a past co-chair of the Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Conference, 1990-1992. She served as president of the Colorado Indian Bar Association from 1990-1992, and a board member of the American Indian Bar Association (now the National Native American Bar Association) from 1990-1991. She was a member of NARF's Litigation Management Committee from 1992-1995, and since May 2007 she again has been serving on the committee. McCoy received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1981) and law degree from the University of Michigan (1986). She is admitted to practice law in Colorado and Massachusetts. She has practiced before all levels of tribal and federal courts, including arguing a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. McCoy is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
William Mendoza
Executive Director, White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education
William (Bill) Mendoza was appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education in December 2011. Mendoza (Oglala-Sicangu Lakota) grew up on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux reservations in South Dakota. He has experienced, firsthand, through his professional and life experiences, the multitude of challenges facing American Indian students, educators and tribes. In addition to being a teacher and principal, Mendoza has worked at the school, professional and community level to help foster leadership development and civic engagement among American Indians. Integral to his professional and academic capacity has been his experiences as a tribal college student at Haskell Indian Nations University, Sinte Gleska University and Oglala Lakota College. He previously served as deputy director and executive director for the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges. Since his appointment in 2011, Mendoza has provided leadership to key administration initiatives, including Executive Order 13592, Tribal Leaders Speak – The State of Indian Education 2010 Report; State-Tribal Education Partnership Pilot; and 2012 ED-DOI Memorandum of Understanding. Before coming to Washington, D.C., Mendoza was working toward a doctorate in education leadership at Montana State University (MSU). He earned his Bachelor of Arts in humanities from Fort Lewis College in 2005 and a Master of Education from MSU in 2010.
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Associate Professor of Law; Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center; Affiliated Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
Elizabeth Kronk Warner joined the KU Law faculty in June 2012, having previously served on the law faculties at Texas Tech University and the University of Montana. In 2010, Warner was selected to serve as an Environmental Justice Young Fellow through the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law at Vermont Law School. She has also served as a visiting professor at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, and Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her scholarship, which focuses primarily on the intersection of Indian law and environmental law, is published in several prominent journals. She is also co-author of the casebook, Native American Natural Resources. In addition to teaching, Warner serves as an appellate judge for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Court of Appeals in Michigan. Before entering academia, Warner practiced environmental, Indian and energy law as an associate in the Washington, D.C., offices of Latham & Watkins LLP and Troutman Sanders LLP. Warner previously served as chair of the Federal Bar Association Indian Law Section and was elected to the Association's national board of directors in 2011. She currently serves as chairwoman of the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University. Warner is a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
18th Annual Tribal Law & Government Conference
"The Indian Child Welfare Act: Past, Present and Future"
Friday, March 7, 2014 | Burge Union | University of Kansas
This year's conference focuses on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), one of the most sweeping statutes in the field of federal Indian law. As Barbara Ann Atwood explained, "ICWA was designed to remedy a unique and longstanding record of child welfare abuses by federal and state officials, state court judges, and private adoption agencies that led to widespread removal of Indian children from their homes and communities." Intense interest in ICWA was recently sparked by the U.S. Supreme Court's consideration of and decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl in June 2013.
The conference will explore: 1) the historical origins of ICWA, 2) the Court's decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, 3) the potential future of ICWA, and 4) ethical considerations related to ICWA.
CLE Credit and Lunch
6 hours of CLE credit, including 1 hours of ethics, are approved in Kansas and Missouri. Attorneys who wish to receive CLE credit will be assessed a $25 fee. Lunch will be provided.
|Continental Breakfast
|Welcome Remarks
Dean Stephen Mazza, KU Law
Professor Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center
|Indian Child Welfare Act: Its Origins and Application (PDF)
Dean Stacy Leeds, University of Arkansas School of Law
Moderator: Burton Warrington, President and CEO of Prairie Band LLC
|Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: The Arguments, The Decision and Potential Implications
Mark Fiddler, Mark Fiddler Law Office (PDF)
Chrissi Nimmo, Assistant Attorney General of the Cherokee Nation (PDF)
Moderator: Professor Elizabeth Kronk Warner, Director, KU Tribal Law & Government Center
|Lunch, Gridiron Room, Burge Union
|The Future of ICWA
Russ Brien, Brien Law LLC (PDF)
Vivien Olsen, Attorney with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (PDF)
Professor Colette Routel, William Mitchell College of Law
|Ethical Considerations Related to ICWA
Professor Kate Fort, Michigan State University College of Law (PDF)
Moderator: Rebecca Howlett, KU Law Student and KU NALSA Member
|Closing Remarks
Other Opportunities
KU's Native American Law Students Association is an organization of dynamic students, both Indian and non-Indian, who organize annual service projects and social events. NALSA members attend National NALSA conferences and participate in the National NALSA Moot Court Competition. On two occasions, the KU team has won first place in the competition. NALSA members also routinely attend the annual Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Group members also provide mentoring and study materials.


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Remember guest IDs for the Easter/Passover holidays
Residents can obtain guest IDs by presenting their activity cards at either fitness center, the Logo Building or at Resident Services in Palmetto Commons. Please make sure to obtain your guest ID cards early. Guests are free at the fitness centers with valid guest ID cards Friday-Sunday. Fitness class fees for guests still apply. The Purrysburg and Hidden Cypress Fitness Centers will be open from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday. The Logo Building will be open from
9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Welcome to Sun City Hilton Head
If you are new to Sun City Hilton Head, or maybe just need a refresher, be sure to attend the new resident orientation at 9 a.m. Thursday in Pinckney Hall. Learn about the various departments and people in the community that are here to assist you. Coffee and donuts will be provided by Home Depot. Sign up in the seminar binder in Lifestyle Services in Pinckney Hall if you plan to attend.
Pavilion driveway
to be installed
Facilities Services is installing a driveway from the Magnolia Hall parking lot closest to the tennis courts to the Pavilion. The area is taped off, and the driveway is expected to open April 11. Vehicles will be able to use the driveway to load and unload items needed for events in the Pavilion. Please use caution around this area. Thank you for your continued support.
Tee times
Lasting through the summer, tee times on Sun City's golf courses will start at 7:30 a.m. The last tee time of
the day will be at
6 p.m.
Tables available for parking lot sale
Don't know what to do with all the stuff you found during spring cleaning? Sell it at the parking lot sale. Tables for the spring parking lot sale are available in lifestyle services in Pinckney Hall. The sale is scheduled from 8 a.m.-noon April 21 on Sun City Lane. Clean out your closets and take part in this enjoyable community event. Tables will be 8-foot banquet tables, cost $20 each, and are for residents only. No commercial goods and/or food are permitted to be sold.

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Transfer News: Hull City have signed goalkeeper Steve Harper on one-year deal
Hull City have completed the signing of former Newcastle United goalkeeper Steve Harper on a one-year contract.
Last Updated: 16/07/13 7:57am
Harper ended his lengthy association with Newcastle earlier in the summer and he has now accepted a deal with Premier League new boys Hull.
The 38-year-old has been added to Steve Bruce's squad to provide competition and cover for fellow new signing Allan McGregor at the KC Stadium.
"We just thought we needed a bit of experience," Bruce told Sky Sports News.
"We let a young kid, Mark Oxley, go to Oldham to get some experience, and we just needed a bit of experience.
"We got in Allan McGregor and now we've brought in Steve, who has been around the Premier League for 20 years.
"He'll be good in the dressing room and good for the younger players we have got in the squad. With his experience, he will certainly help me to try to achieve what we want to achieve.
"You can't beat a bit of experience and Steve has got that in abundance. We've seen him at the back-end of last season playing against Arsenal and he did very well in the game, so I had no problems bringing him in."
With a large chunk of Hull's squad having no Premier League experience to call upon, Bruce felt it was important to bring in a player of Harper's stature.
He continued: "We have added a couple of people who know what it's about.
"The vast majority of the squad have worked extremely hard to get in the Premier League over the last few years. I'm talking about Stephen Quinn, George Boyd, people like that, and some of the younger players - James Chester, for example, didn't quite make the grade at Man U.
"They're all desperate to try and prove themselves, and be, Premier League players, and that's the challenge ahead for them."


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Thanks so much Kerry for taking the time to explain each step so beautifully!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I've just finished my first tova and I wanted to say a big thank you to you for all your brilliant posts. Following all the sew along stuff has been like attempting this pattern with a helpful friend who actually knows what they are doing by my side!ReplyDelete
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Thank you for hosting this sew-a-long. I found it very helpful as a reference as I made my first couple Tovas. (I linked to this page on my blog write up of my Tovas.)ReplyDelete
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You were so kindly to answer me on flickr about the Tova.
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Spain: Barcelona defender Dani Alves believes Pep Guardiola left the club because the players "were no longer responding to him as he desired".
In the space of four years Guardiola quickly became the most successful coach in the Catalan club`s history.
But, at the end of last season he made the shock decision to step down as boss and Alves feels that was because of him and his team-mates.
"Pep said that he would only leave when we were no longer responding to him," Alves said in an interview with Le Buteur.
"We did not respond to him on the field as he would have liked and this is why the players feel responsible for his departure."
The Brazil international also spoke of his highly-rated compatriot Neymar and spoke of the differences between him and Blaugrana team-mate Lionel Messi.
"The difference between Messi and Neymar is that Messi plays in Europe, while Neymar is still in Brazil," he continued.
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Hiroshi Mizuno
Hometown: Nagoya, Japan
Major: Fine Arts, Illustration
WCSU Degree: Master of Fine Arts in Art - Illustration
Internships: Graduate assistant graphic designer/artist for WCSU since January 2009
Honors and Awards: 3.88 GPA, Dean's List
Maybe not everyone on WestConn's Midtown campus recognizes graduate student Hiroshi Mizuno's face, but a lot of people have seen his work without realizing it. The talented illustrator, a native of Nagoya, Japan, has practiced his art and perfected his skills as an intern designing posters and marketing pieces for a number of campus events. His drawings have even graced the Facebook pages of staff members so impressed with his work they wanted to share it with others.
Mizuno obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and when he contemplated graduate school, he says he was looking for a "not-so-large school in the Northeast" to study illustration. "WCSU matched," he explains.
Asked what he will remember most about his WestConn experience, Mizuno says, "I created advertising materials for different academic departments and events at WCSU. I've done those projects mostly for the International Services Office. My international student adviser, Missy Gluckmann, became a great organizer/ project adviser/ boss of my internship. I also had great experiences as a teaching assistant for art classes."
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Hi Everyone,
I thought I would write a post to clarify a few issues that are being brought up with regard to the platform's upgrade.
First, we're glad you're here. I know it was a pretty frustrating experience for some of you to get back into the platform at the re-launch. We're really sorry about that.
Some of the headlines-
What happened to notification emails?
When we launched there were, as many of you know, a number of technical hiccups. To better control the situation we temporarily disabled notifications. We did this to limit the amount of traffic to the site (we send over 1 million emails a month) in an effort to limit the number of people who might run into the bugs. These notifications will be turned on again next week (the week starting Jul 15).
Why was I having problems logging in?
We tested the system across all browsers including iPad/mobile before we launched but sometimes you can't replicate real life, and login was unfortunately what suffered the most in this. Most of the early login problems are now fixed, but a few people may still be being logged out when they are browsing. We'll have that straightened out soon.
Where's my badge!? Why are my photos psychedelic/upside down? etc
Almost all of these type of issues we are aware of and on our list of fixes over the coming few days. We have had to prioritise the most urgent ones first. You can email email@example.com to help identify any you think we might have missed.
Where are my blogs?
As most of you have noticed 'blogs' have been renamed to 'posts'. However, all the same content is still there. A lot of users told us they were daunted by the idea of blogging when they first joined the site so 'posts' are aimed to make it easier and more welcoming.
Why did we make these changes?
Changing the platform was imperative as the old one was built three years ago and was not coping anymore with the amount of traffic we receive, the amount of contents we have and the increasingly more sophisticated information needs of our users.
We are still a very small team and we are working very hard to make your user experience better. The site is built for you, and we do care about your views.
I'm sure that after we finish all the transition process, this system will be easier to use than the previous one but will also be much more useful for the members. Thanks for still being here and having the faith in us to get things back on the rails.
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The poster who indicated that this law will probably benefit more grads from non-top 14 schools was right on target - most other schools don't have adequate LRAPs right now. As for the person who said, I will believe it when I see it: you are seeing it. This is LAW now. Do you mean that you are waiting to be a follower and see how someone else handles their debt under this law? ;-)For those who are interested: Philip Schrag wrote a Hofstra Law Review article on this topic, to be published very soon. You can access it on SSRN or via the Equal Justice Works website. The purpose of this law wasn't to lure people away from BIGLAW; the purpose was to help those who wanted to work in public interest but were either suffering low standards of living to do so, or who were choosing more lucrative positions for strictly financial reasons. No one is going to get rich providing legal services to low income people, but with help from this law, they can stop living like students while working as attorneys.
Wow - no interest in the biggest government program to help college grads since the GI Bill?
Oops! I started another thread on the same topic. duh. sorry.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Brendan McCarron (Tampa, Fla.) and Rommel Fondin (Palm Bay, Fla.) each scored a goal to lead the Coker Cobras to a 2-0 victory over Chowan University on Saturday night in the Cobras 2010 Homecoming match. The win improves the Cobras to 5-2-2 on the year.
The Cobras applied heavy offensive pressure the entire match outshooting the Hawks 24-1, with 11 of those shots on frame. Coker netted the first goal of the game in the 39th minute when Fondin sent a corner kick into the box and McCarron headed the cross past Chowan's Scott Cullen.
With a 1-0 lead heading into the second half, Fondin gave the Cobras some insurance in the 67th minute with a penalty kick goal.
Cullen had an outstanding match for the Hawks with nine saves, while Coker's James Sweeney (Huntingtown, Md.) earned the shutout.
Coker returns action on Monday for a Conference Carolinas match against Barton College. The Cobras will host the Bulldogs at the Coker Soccer Field starting at 5:30 p.m.


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Square-dancing takes over Highlands Clubhouse
Two residents who jumped on square-dancing bandwagon bring some friends to demonstrate and facilitate other residents
A couple of Highlands residents, Mary Davis and Sandy Bergeron, with help from members of the Tri Squares Square Dance Club, got almost everyone attending a Sunday Storytime on Aug. 10 out of their chairs and square-dancing before the event was over.
Davis and Bergeron joined the Tri Squares Square Dance Club a year ago and brought along the club president, the caller and a few other members to first demonstrate some dances before pairing up with the neophytes to try some do si dos and promenades.
Before the dancing started, Davis and Bergeron explained how they got involved with the club that meets at the Tigard Grange, with Davis calling square-dancing "my new passion" and adding, "I met the president of the Oregon Square Dancing Association at a big birthday party. I had square-danced many, many years ago. Sandy and I went looking for the sign in the Grange window a couple of years ago but missed it."
Bergeron took up the story, saying, "Then the next year we saw it and called. We said to each other, 'Let's clear the boards and do it.' I had square-danced in high school, but I found out it was exercise, and they just called it square-dancing. I had a husband who talked a lot, and I tuned him out, so I had a problem listening to Larry (Halley, the caller) because when I heard a male voice, I tuned it out."
Linda Ray-Keeney, the Tri-Squares president, called out the names of the "angels" who came along to the HighlandsClubhouse and who are club members willing to help newcomers find their way around a square.
"Terry will run our angels through some steps," Ray-Keeney said, and with that, Halley put on the music and started calling, with eight dancers forming a square and putting on a polished demonstration.
Halley explained, "We use all types of music for dancing. We call it modern or Western square-dancing that also includes gospel, rock 'n' roll, pop and popular music, but there also is traditional square-dancing with traditional music."
He added that square-dancing is Oregon's official state dance and that "it is a very good, clean activity with no smoking or drinking allowed. It is a good way to meet quality, nice people. It's a good activity. You can dance a lot of places like community halls and granges."
Then it was time for "volunteers" from the audience to join the experienced dancers and create two squares, with Halley explaining, "I'm going to teach you some moves."
He explained the logistics of the square and the positions of the dancers, such as the head couples and the side couple, as well as the basic steps.
"Most instructions are given to the guys because they need the instruction," Halley said before starting to call out, "Bow to your partner. Bow to the corner. Circle left, circle right and back to home. Do si do, walk right past shoulder to shoulder, promenade, weave the ring" and so on.
By the end of the session, almost everyone was able to follow the steps and do a credible version of square dancing, with some signing up on the spot for the fall series of lessons, which run for 10 weeks starting Sunday, Sept. 21, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. People can attend the first two classes for free before they decide if they want to continue and pay $48 for the remaining eight lessons.
"Our youngest dancer is 10 years old, and our oldest is 80, and we have a number of single people," said Ray-Keeney, adding that the club currently has 42 members. "They come from all walks of life, but they all have to learn all the steps. Anticipating the caller will foul you up. And we have a refreshment break every class. We try to pace it.
"If people give us their email address, we send out reminders for the steps they learned, and they get a video. We have a six-week break over the holidays, and then Jan. 4 people can sign up for a second series of classes. There are a total of 68 moves, and the first 51 are taught in the fall series. In the winter we teach 52 through 68, and dancers graduate in the spring and are invited to become members. Then the next fall they can come back and be angels if they want."
Halley added, "We have many couples who are married, but if one is sick, the other comes anyway. Our newest members are not on the sidelines very long."
Ray-Keeney explained, "Terry will call the moves they know at first. And we also have round dancing. And people should know that they do not have to wear square-dancing clothes. We call the dress 'smart casual,' but they accept me in my jeans."
Following the demonstration, Davis and Bergeron talked a little more about their involvement with the Tri Squares.
"I did it 30 years ago for three years, and I loved it," Davis said. "I started up again because I wanted to do something different, and the location is perfect. I like Terry because he is all about teaching, but he is also about having a good time. It was nice to have the angels to dance with when we started.
"The whole club is so supportive, and they don't want to intimidate people. This is about having fun and taking on physical and mental challenges. By the time you go through their classes, you are proficient and can go to any square-dance club.
"It's always challenging, but you can go as far as you want with this. Some people like round-dancing better. I haven't done it yet, but it's on my bucket list."
Bergeron explained, "I always like trying new things, and it's good to keep our minds and bodies active at our age. Doing this is fun, and it adds two more hours of exercise to my week. I was surprised at how hard it was on my brain. I told Mary, 'My brain hurts,' but we're creating new pathways in our brains, which is good.
"You can make this as strenuous as you want. Otherwise, it's just basically walking and getting your brain and body moving together at the same time. I'm 76 years old, and I like getting this old body to move. This was on my bucket list to do before I can't walk anymore."


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Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Diocese of New Hampshire Introduces Their Bishop
11 comments:
- Tom E said...
Thank you for sharing this vidoe with us. I appreciate being able to hear your words as you talk about your Bishop. You are blessed and our church is blessed to have this man among us.
Tom E
- July 24, 2008 at 6:43 PM
- Christine said...
Well done, I have felt theat the voice of the people of NH has been lost in all this conversation. thank you for such a warm and loving introduction to the world. Christine
- July 24, 2008 at 6:45 PM
- FranIAm said...
Once again, I am seeing +Gene and finding myself weeping- weeping with sadness but also with hope.
What a beautiful man and how wonderful to hear what people from his diocese who know him have to say.
- July 24, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Thank you for your witness. One can not view this and see,feel and hear Love and respect.
Blessings for you all and thanksgiving for your steadfast stand. I too look at Gene and your Diocese as signs our church will grow and become richer.
- July 24, 2008 at 11:17 PM
- SCG said...
You all are blessed, and I am proud to be a native of the Granite State, raised in the Diocese that has been given the gift of +Gene's ministry.
- July 25, 2008 at 3:21 AM
A very warm video--presents Gene as a beloved bishop. 10 or 12 people talking at length about what a great guy he is---warm, kind, respectful, patient, honoring of other people's walks and beliefs, has the personal touch, practices radical hospitality....
But not ONE WORD by ANY of those people about his knowledge or love of Christ. Not one word about how he brings Good News to those who don't know Christ. Not one thing that indicates he is anything other than a great guy. (which he truly seems to be, don't get me wrong).
Terrific guy. Should not be bishop.
Eve Nash
- July 28, 2008 at 11:57 AM
"Anonymous" said some sad things about the video - that the video did not speak about gene's love of Jesus. (Setting asside the fact that all these negative comments so often come from sad and cowardly people who will not stand tall next to what they wrote)
There is something I notice...
It is the very text isolationism of this blogger which has divided the church to begin with into literalists and the rest of us who still see Anglicanism as having a three-fold base of Schripture, Tradition and Reason.
It seems perfectly consistant that this viewer only has the capacity to see one, tiny piece at a time. When you do not allow all of scripture to inform its parts (intertextuality) then you get fundamentalism in any religion.
I would expect a funamentalist and literalist to dislike the video because they cannot see the whole picture.
This video was designed as an INTRODUCTION to Gene Robisnon, NOT a replacement of Gene Robinson.
Gene's love of Jesus and passion for the marginalized so beloved of Jesus rings through loud and clear the moment one hears Gene speak and sees his face.
Furthermore, the Diocese of Newhampshire elected this man as our Bishop and we are not so spiritually lacking that we would choose a man in whom we do not see a love for Jesus. We simply knew that the people seeing the video at Lambeth would then see the man; and it would then be very clear (as has already been reported many times over) that Bishop's minds about Gene would change.
That change has begun. It is like a rising tide - slow and powerful and led by the Holy Spirit.
An anonymous posting like this one says more about the poster than the Bishop.
- July 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM
Sorry in case you did not read my full comment. My name is Eve Nash of the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham Alabama.
No isolationism here.
No "drive by," as it were. I am not a blogger, do not have a website or google identity, so the only category I could fit into was was "Anonymous."
I did, however, include my name and I stand by my post.
- July 28, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I am afraid that you are wrong about Gene being a "terrific guy". In fact, he may be the most selfish person on the planet. Anyone who would purposefully push his agenda to the point that people die is not a "terrific guy". Be certain, that people in Africa have died because his unrepeated sin has caused churches to refuse money from TEC.
- July 30, 2008 at 10:18 PM
- sedo666 said...
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- July 31, 2008 at 10:29 PM
- Jon M. Richardson said...
FYI: I removed the above comment - not as censorship - but because it was a spammer link to a corrupt external website.
- August 12, 2008 at 12:12 PM


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A man suing a northeast Ohio police department alleges his rights were violated by an officer who slammed his head into a cruiser's windshield with enough force to crack the glass.
Dashcam video of the September 2014 arrest, obtained by NBC affiliate WKYC, shows 32-year-old Pele Smith, being escorted to the patrol car by four Loraine police officers while handcuffed. Smith's head then violently hits the windshield. The glass cracks from the impact.
"Why are you doing this to me?" Smith is heard saying as he is held on the car's hood.
He was treated at Mercy Regional Medical Center for facial injuries, WKYC reported.
Smith was later charged with "tampering with evidence, obstructing official business and resisting arrest. In a plea deal with prosecutors, Smith pleaded guilty and received probation," according to court records WKYC reviewed.
Last month, Smith filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and several officers.
In his lawsuit, Smith says that Lorain Officer Zachary Ferenec, who was walking Smith to the cruiser and pushed him into the windshield, used excessive force during a 2014 arrest that he claims was warrantless.
"It's unbelievable. It's sad. It's frightening that an individual while in handcuffs has something like that happen to them," Mark Petroff, an attorney representing Smith, told WKYC.
Smith also alleges that three other Lorain officers at the scene did not intervene and that one of the officers, identified in the lawsuit as Michael Gidich, got in the back of Ferenec's cruiser and "began to taunt and insult the bleeding [Smith]" while being transported in the patrol car for treatment.
The video does not show the beginning of the traffic stop.
Lorain police Capt. Roger Watkins said Smith swallowed suspected drugs and struggled with officers during the arrest, The Associated Press reported. He says the slamming of Smith's head into the windshield was unintentional.
In a statement, Lorain Police Chief Cel Rivera said "During the arrest and Mr. Smith's active resistance, he was placed on the hood of the police unit to gain control and conduct a search, as per policy." Rivera called Smith a "violent drug trafficker" and said the cautioned "observers to not rush to judgment relative to the actions of the police on scene."
But according to the Lorain County Clerk of Courts website, Smith has no felony convictions for violent crimes. He has prior convictions for drug offenses and possessing a firearm.
WKYC says it has requested all records associated with Smith's arrest and any subsequent internal investigations. Lorain police have not provided any records related to the incident, the station says.


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3 cups all purpose flour
1 T. baking powder
1 t. salt
2 tsps. Freshly ground black pepper
½ c. chilled unsalted butter, cut into small cubes
1 ½ cups grated cheddar cheese
4 green onions, thinly sliced
10 slices bacon, cooked and chopped into small pieces
¾ to 1 ½ cups buttermilk
1 large egg
2 Tbs. water
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Using mixer with paddle attachment, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and black pepper in large bowl on low speed. With mixer running, gradually add the butter until the mixture is crumbly and the bits are about the size of peas. Add grated cheese and mix just until well blended.
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USGS Circular 1291
March 2006
Revised February 15, 2007
By Robert J. Gilliom, Jack E. Barbash, Charles G. Crawford, Pixie A. Hamilton, Jeffrey D. Martin, Naomi Nakagaki, Lisa H. Nowell, Jonathan C. Scott, Paul E. Stackelberg, Gail P. Thelin, and David M. Wolock
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A man has been charged with manslaughter after another man died following an altercation near an industrial estate in Tibshelf.
At around 5pm on Friday, March 21 a fight took place on land near an industrial estate on Sawpit Lane.
A 39-year-old man suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital.
Jacek Golubek was pronounced dead on the morning of Saturday, March 22.
Grzegorz Betleja (29), of Alfreton Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, has been charged with manslaughter and will appear before magistrates in Chesterfield today (Monday, March 24).
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to the incident to come forward.
Anyone with information is asked to call Derbyshire police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.