Boozhoo Jayek (Hello friends),
I write to extend a warm welcome as UCLA returns to campus for the fall term. Here at the Native Nations Law and Policy Center we are trying to keep cool amid an unprecedented heatwave, and we hope you are all keeping safe as well.
Despite the weather, we are delighted to start the fall semester and welcome our incoming class of students and announce exciting programmatic news. Please read on to hear about my role as Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs at UCLA, where I will work along with Prof. Shannon Speed to advance Native initiatives on campus and beyond.
The NNLPC is also undergoing exciting changes. As detailed below, Lauren van Schilfgaarde (Cochiti Pueblo) is joining UCLA School of Law and American Indian Studies as a tenure-track faculty member. Mica Llerandi (Diné/Navajo) will join us as the new
San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Director of the Tribal Legal Development Clinic, and Alex Fay will serve as the inaugural Richard M. Milanovich Fellow in Law, supported by a generous gift from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians.
Due to the incredible generosity of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria, we welcome four new Graton Scholars to UCLA School of Law and also announce the establishment by the Tribe of two new chairs in Native American Law. Chairman Greg Sarris will also honor us by visiting UCLA School of Law this fall as a Regents’ Professor, where he will engage with the Native community at the Law School and campus-wide. More information about those exciting events will be announced shortly.
You can read about all these announcements below, as well as get more information on a featured event highlighting the pending Supreme Court decision on Haaland v. Brackeen, a case that will have repercussions throughout Indian country.
We are looking forward to an exciting year, and we cannot wait to see you – virtually or in person – soon!
Miigwetch, (Thank you)
Angela R. Riley (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
Professor of Law and American Indian Studies
Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center
Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs
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