November 2021 Newsletter
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
NNLPC NEWS
The Harvard Law Review recently cited repeatedly to Professor Angela R. Riley in their highlight of the U.S. Supreme Court holding in United States v. Cooley. Cooley is a welcome deviation from the Court's troubling tendency to produce jurisdictional voids that actively restrict tribes' abilities to keep their communities safe.

TLDC Director, Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde was a panelist on the Ethics-Substance Abuse Panel on Thursday, November 4, 2021 for the 2021 California Indian Law Virtual Panel Series.
UCLA Law Live guide
Tribal Law, Federal Indian Law and the Native Student Experience at UCLA Law
Professor Angela R. Riley, Director of the Native Nations Law and Policy Center, and Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Director of the Tribal Legal Development Clinic, hosted the session to talk about the programmatic offerings at UCLA, including courses, clinics, the joint degree program in Law and American Indian Studies, and other opportunities in Tribal Law and Federal Indian 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. 


Watch the Liveguide HERE
Wisconsin Law Review’s 2021 Symposium
"The Restatement of the Law of American Indians"
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.
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
EVENTS
Our Fall 2021 Speaker Series events have concluded.
Please stay tuned for our Spring 2021 events.
Recent Event Recordings
The Ascension of Tribal Cultural Property Law

Watch recording HERE
TLDC Highlight: The Need for Confidentiality within Tribal Cultural Resource Protection

Watch recording HERE
Book Talk: A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

Watch recording HERE
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Student receives prestigious fellowship
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.
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.

NALSA
NALSA held a panel on Missing and Murdered Indiginous People on November 18. The panelists, Dr. Liza Black (Cherokee), Visiting Scholar UCLA; Stephanie Lumsden (Hupa), PhD Candidate UCLA Gender Studies; and Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee), Attorney Pipestem Law, P.C. discussed the history and significance of this issue; how tribes, advocates, and practitioners are working to create solutions; and possible decolonization practices that can be used by tribes and advocates.

Watch recording HERE