Cherokee author Steve Russell’s new book is out – as blogged by Matthew Fletcher. Steve humbly failed to shamelessly self-promote this, so I’ll do it for him. Congrats Steve and happy semi-retirement! The book can be purchased (at a very reasonable price) by Carolina Academic Press here.
Congrats to S. Alan Ray for his presidential appointment to the National Advisory Council on Indian Ed. Full press release here:
S Alan Ray and Council on Indian Education.
How many presidential appointments of Cherokees to key positions does this make in the Obama administration? Kudos.
Judge J. Matthew Martin (Associate Judge at EBCI) has a new law review article out The Nature and Extent of the Exercise of Criminal Jurisdiction by the Cherokee Supreme Court: 1823-1835 at 32 North Carolina Central Law Rev. 27 (2009). The most interesting part of the article is the evidence that the Cherokee Nation did exercise criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians (albiet over the non-Indians’ objection). It’s on westlaw and an earlier version of the final piece is here.
The Annual Tribal Law Conference at the KU School of Law will be held this year in conjunction with the Four Tribes in Kansas’ Native Nations Law Symposium. Day one (Feb 11th) at KU Law. Day two (Feb. 12th) at Prairie Band Casino and Resort. Agenda and on-line registration here. Among the topics are tribal economic development, gaming, tribal court jurisdiction, probate reform and ethics in tribal government. Cherokee Nation tribal citizens Stacy Leeds, Mark Dodd, and Melody McCoy are among the speakers.
America Meredith is teaching Native American Art History I and II this semester and has shared her syllabi. The Native American Art History I course covers pre-contact to late 19th century. The Native American Art History II course picks up with late 19th century thru 1960. Both links open in Word.
NSU Press Release and photo op here. Congratulations to Wilma and the whole NSU community.
The Annual Sequoyah Commission Conference will be held at NSU in Tahlequah later this week: September 3-4, 2009. The full agenda is here and there is no registration fee. Congrats to Dr. Richard Allen for putting this together and good luck to the presenters. For more info contact Dr. Allen at the Cherokee Nation.
Those of us who were lucky enough to have some time off this summer are making our way back to the office. Please send any updated contact info, news of visiting appointments, or other start of the semester news to Stacy Leeds and we’ll have it posted on-line.
Have a good semester!
Leech Lake Tribal College is conducting a search for a new president. The full booklet describing the search can be downloaded here.