The annual conference of the Sequoyah Commission will be held September 2-3, 2010 in Tahlequah. Congrats to Richard Allen for another job well done in putting together this event. Agenda can be downloaded here: State of Sequoyah Commission Conference Agenda 2010 (2)
We will hold the 2nd Annual Cherokee Scholars meeting on May 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Tucson, Arizona. We chose this time at our last meeting because it coincides with the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Association Meeting which will be held at University of Arizona on May 20-22. The NAISA conference website is here. For junior scholars that have no university travel funds, we will work to put a pot of money together to help defray costs.
KU's annual Tribal Law & Government Center Conference
will be held on February 13th, 2009 in Lawrence, Kansas.
The conference is free of charge and open to the public, but please register in advance
| 8:30-9 a.m. | Registration and Coffee |
| 9-9:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions Stacy L. Leeds, Professor of Law and Director, Tribal Law & Government Center, University of Kansas School of Law Gail Agrawal, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law |
| 9:30-10:20 a.m. | "Tribal Self-Determination in the Age of Scarcity" Patrice Kunesh, Professor of Law, University of South Dakota School of Law |
| 10:20-10:40 a.m. | BREAK |
| 10:40-11:30 a.m. | "Teaching Culture in the Classroom: Tribal Law and Best Practices in Legal Education" Aliza Organick, Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law |
| 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | "Sequoyah Rising: Doing What We Can With What We've Got" Steve Russell, Professor, University of Indiana |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | LUNCH on own |
| 1:30-2:20 p.m. | "The Return of Indian Treaty Making" Robert Clinton, Foundation Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law |
| 2:30-3:20 p.m. | "'Who Are You?' Indigenous Identity and the Lines of Tribe" Christine Zuni-Cruz, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law |
| 3:20-3:40 p.m. | BREAK |
| 3:40-4:30 p.m. | "Indigenous Governance Amidst the Forced Federalism Era" Jeff Corntassel, Associate Professor, University of Victoria School of Law |
| 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
The University of Colorado Law School and the University of Denver Sturm
College of Law will be hosting a half-day Indian law conference, "Native
Americans, Race and the Constitution" on Friday, February 27, 2009 from 8:30
a.m. to 12:00 at the University of Colorado Wolf Law Building in Boulder,
Colorado. For more info contact Jill E. Tompkins, Director, American Indian Law Clinic, University of
Colorado Law School at jill.tompkins@colorado.edu or (303) 735-2194.
Full conference agenda here.
KU Law's Annual Tribal Law and Government Conference will be held in Lawrence on February 13, 2009. The Save the Date card can be downloaded here: Download SaveDateTribal09 . Final agenda will be posted soon. This year's theme: Innovations in Tribal Governance.
The inaugural Cherokee Scholars meeting will take place February 14th from 9 am to 4 pm at the University of Kansas School of Law, Rice Room. The agenda will include:
This first meeting will be limited to enrolled tribal members/citizens of the three federally recognized Cherokee entities: Cherokee Nation, UKB and Eastern Band. During the meeting we will discuss how we wish to define ourselves for the future, discuss the goals of the group and plan future meetings. Please send ideas for presentations to stacy@stacyleeds.com and we will put together a final detailed agenda by December 1st. The works in progress presentations can be very rough – it’s out intention to provide a friendly inter-disciplinary audience for presenting new ideas. The afternoon session will involve projects that are further along.
As a community, we will do what we can to assist those who wish to attend but have limited travel funds. Get to Lawrence and we’ll see that everyone has a place to stay and food to eat.
If you come join us the day before, the Annual Tribal Law and Government Conference will be held all day Friday, February 13th, also at KU Law School.