Bozho,
Happy Native American Heritage Month! We are elated to join the celebratory uplifting of Indigenous Peoples, including the recent revival of the White House Tribal Nations Summit and the welcome executive action on Indigenous Knowledge, missing and murdered Indigenous people, and the protection of Chaco Canyon. The NNLPC had a provocative speaker series this month. We encourage you to access the recordings. And remember to rock your mocs!
Megwetch,
Angela R. Riley (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
Professor of Law and Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center
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Tribal Law, Federal Indian Law and the Native Student Experience at UCLA Law
They were joined by alumna Geneva E.B. Thompson, Assistant Secretary of Tribal Affairs at the California Natural Resources Agency, Alyssa Sanderson, a current UCLA Law student, and UCLA Law's Director of Admissions Danae McElroy.
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Wisconsin Law Review’s 2021 Symposium
"The Restatement of the Law of American Indians"
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NNLPC Director Professor Angela R. Riley joined the nation’s top experts, judges, practitioners, and tribal leaders in the Indian law practice to discuss the topics analyzed, clarified, and critiqued, in the Restatement, the development of the Restatement project, and the future of Indian law practice at the Wisconsin Law Review 2021 Symposium.
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The Tribal Legal Development Clinic and Native Nations Law and Policy Center partnered with Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) Professor, Department of Gender Studies and Core Faculty, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
to bring Brett Lee Shelton (Ogalala Sioux Tribe), an attorney with the Native Americans Rights Fund (NARF), to UCLA for two class visits and a joint lecture on Indigenous Peacemaking.
Sponsors of this visit:
UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
UCLA Promise Institute
Fowler Museum
Institute of American Cultures
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Our Fall 2021 Speaker Series events have concluded.
Please stay tuned for our Spring 2021 events.
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The Ascension of Tribal Cultural Property Law
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TLDC Highlight: The Need for Confidentiality within Tribal Cultural Resource Protection
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Book Talk: A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
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Student receives prestigious fellowship
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Grace Carson (Diné) received a Skadden Fellowship to work with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute on helping tribes to create and execute restorative justice systems focused on rehabilitating people who use drugs and on healing the harm they caused within the community. These systems will be an alternative to punishment and incarceration and used as a tool to effectively address harm that takes place on reservations.
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SUMMER LAW CLERK
The UCLA Law Tribal Legal Development Clinic is hiring summer law clerks for Summer 2022. We are currently recruiting incoming 2L and 3L students.
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