Please see the Washington Post article about Kevin Gover – Moving beyond the “imaginary Indians” perception.
Kevin Gover – Moving beyond the “imaginary Indians” perception at http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fred-hiatt-moving-beyond-the-imaginary-indians-perception/2014/09/21/ea1ee614-3f3b-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html
Congrats to ILP Alums from the Class of 2006 Steve Bodmer and Courtney Monteiro for being recipients of the 40 under 40!
The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) is pleased to announce its 2014 “Native American 40 Under 40” award recipients have been selected. This prestigious award recognizes 40 emerging American Indian leaders from across Indian Country who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, and dedication and made significant contributions in business and/or in their community.
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View the 2014 Indian Legal Program Graduation Photos at 2014 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154203706525157.1073741860.183027465156&type=3
Movie Screening & Reception: The Cherokee Word for Water
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 / Armstrong Hall / Great Hall
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Free and Open to the Public. Cherokee Word for Water Movie Screening
Producers Kristina Kiehl and Charlie Soap will be on-hand for Q&A following the screening. Reception following the screen sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch Native American Professional Network.
Hosted by the Indian Legal Program. Please join us. Please forward this invitation to your friends, family and colleagues.
See movie trailer at: http://tinyurl.com/CherokeeWord
Sign-up for free event tickets at: https://thecherokeewordforwater.eventbrite.com
Contact: Darlene.lester@asu.edu
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AN INSPIRING STORY ABOUT A REMARKABLE WOMAN
AND THE POWER OF COMMUNITY
“The Cherokee Word for Water is a very rare story because it is about the empowerment of people who have been made to feel they have no power.”
Gloria Steinem, Friend of Wilma Mankiller
The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature-length motion picture that tells the story of the work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first modern woman Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
The movie is based on the true story of the Bell Waterline Project. Set in the early 1980s in the homes of a rural Oklahoma Cherokee community where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks. After centuries of being dehumanized and dispossessed of their land and identity, the people no longer feel they have power or control over their lives or future.
Led by Wilma Mankiller (played by Kimberly Guerrero, A&E’s Longmire) and fullblood Cherokee organizer Charlie Soap (played by Mo Brings Plenty, Netflix’s House of Cards), using the traditional concept of gadugi – working together to solve a problem, they inspired the community to trust each other, and reawaken universal indigenous values. Together with a community of volunteers they build nearly twenty miles of waterline to save their community. The successful completion of the waterline led to Wilma’s election as Chief, Wilma and Charlie’s marriage and sparked a movement of similar self-help projects across the Cherokee nation and in Indian country that continues to this day.
A long journey to bring this personal story to the screen, first-time filmmakers Charlie Soap directed and produced the film with Kristina Kiehl, women’s rights leader and friend of Wilma and Charlie, serving as Producer. The Cherokee Word for Water was executive produced by Paul Heller (My Left Foot) and Laurene Powell, co-directed by Tim Kelly with cinematography by Lisa Leone, and a screenplay from Tim Kelly and Louise Rubacky.
The Cherokee Word for Water was funded through the Wilma Mankiller Foundation to continue her legacy of social justice and community development in Indian Country. Support is tax deductible and profits fund positive portrayals of American Indians and programs for Indian communities across the country.
See Indian Country Today Article
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/15/telling-wilma-mankillers-story-cherokee-word-water-148725
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twitter.com/wordforwater
youtube.com/cw4w2009
Please join us in welcoming the ILP’s newly admitted students of 2014.
Date: August 27, 2014
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Round House Cafe, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Comm, 10005 E. Osbourne Rd, Scottsdale, AZ
The Indian Legal Program Welcome Dinner brings together faculty, current students, alumni, law school staff and administration, and legal and native communities to welcome the ILP’s 2014 incoming students. Please join us!
RSVP – Darlene Lester at darlene.lester@asu.edu or call 480-965-7715.
See below map to SRPMIC Two Waters Complex, 10005 E. Osbourne Rd, Scottsdale, AZ
Please see Google Directions at http://goo.gl/maps/qMgBL.
The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State College of Law again highlights the prominence of its Indian Legal Program (ILP) with the selection of three of its students to the prestigious 2014 Native American Congressional Internship program run by the Udall Foundation. On April 2nd, the Foundation announced that 12 students from 5 tribes and 9 universities have been selected as 2014 Native American Congressional Interns.
ASU is proud to continue to have strong representation in this internship program and to continue to educate exceptional Native American future leaders.
The awardees were selected by an independent review committee on the basis of academic achievement and a demonstrated commitment to careers in tribal public policy.
The ASU—Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law students are:
▪ Glennas’ba Augborne, Navajo Nation, interning with the Council on Environmental Quality. Glennas’ba is a Diné (Navajo) from Blue Gap, Arizona. She is Coyote Pass clan, born for African American people. Glennas’ba is currently seeking a J.D. with a certificate in the Indian Legal Program from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She would like to pursue a career in Indian and international law. She has a passion for the potential relationships between Indian nations and other indigenous nations abroad. She would like to either work directly with Indian nations in a liaison capacity, a firm, or in a federal agency.
▪ Jacqueline Bisille, Navajo Nation, interning in the office of Senator John McCain. Jacqueline Bisille is from the Navajo Nation (Dine) in Arizona. Her maternal clan is Tsedeeshgizhnii (Rock Gap People), her paternal clan is Asiihii (Salt), her maternal grandfather’s clan is Kinyaa’nii (Towering House People), and her paternal grandfather’s clan is Kinichii’nii(Red House People -Zia). Born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Jacqueline attended Arizona State University (ASU) where she earned a B.S. in justice studies, a minor in American lndian studies, and an M.P.A. with a concentration in urban management. This May, she will earn an M.L.S from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her interests include policymaking, renewable energies as an economic development driver, and strengthening tribal self-governance. She intends to work on tribal legislative and government affairs.
▪ Chelee John, Navajo Nation, interning with the Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Division of Indian Affairs. Chelee John is Navajo (Diné) from Zionsville, Indiana. Chelee is currently seeking her J.D. from Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. She attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 2012 with a double major in psychology and Native American studies. Chelee currently serves as her class representative to the Student Bar Association, is the community outreach chair for the Native American Law Students’ Association, and volunteers as a student ambassador for admissions and financial aid. She is an active participant in moot court. She was honored as a client-counseling finalist and was recently chosen to serve on the moot court executive board. Chelee also volunteers with the Business Legal Assistance Program helping local entrepreneurs start small businesses. Chelee hopes to help Native Americans and tribal governments by fostering economic development on reservations and by helping tribal entities engage in capital markets.
This highly regarded internship program is intended to provide American Indians and Alaska Natives with an insider’s view of the federal government. The internship is located in Washington, D.C., and is known for placing students in extremely competitive internship positions in Senate and House offices, committees, Cabinet departments, and the White House, where they are able to observe government decision-making processes firsthand. The Udall Interns will complete an intensive, 10-week internship in the summer of 2014. Special enrichment activities will provide opportunities to meet with key decision makers. From 1996 through 2014, 221 American Indian and Alaska Native students from 110 tribes will have participated in the program.
For more information about the Indian Legal Program at ASU Law, visit http://www.law.asu.edu/ilp/TheIndianLegalProgram/ILPHome.aspx.
For Immediate Release
For more information contact:
Julie Gunderson, 480-727-5458, julie.gunderson@asu.edu
Changes in Indian law, reservations to be examined at College of Law’s annual William C. Canby Jr. Lecture
Reid Peyton Chambers, a former Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs with the U.S Department of Interior and founding partner in a law firm dedicated to representing Indian tribes nationwide, will deliver the Seventh Annual William C. Canby Jr. Lecture on Friday, Jan. 31, at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Chambers, who has dedicated his career to teaching Indian law and representing Indian tribes, will give a talk titled, “Reflections on the Changes in Indian Law and Indian Reservations from 1969 to the Present.”
“It’s a personal story for me,” Chambers said. “I’ll be giving my assessment of the changes I’ve seen on reservations and in Indian law since I first began my career in the late 1960s.”
Chambers said one of those significant changes began when Indian leaders on reservations began pushing for tribal sovereignty.
“Before the 1960s the federal government was paternalistic when it came to how they controlled Indian reservations,” Chambers said. “Tribal leaders wanted to get rid of that kind of control and establish their own governments.”
Chambers said that beginning in the late 1960s, the federal government for virtually the first time ever became willing to listen to the demands of Indian leaders, and policies from both Lyndon B. Johnson’s Administration and Richard M. Nixon’s Administration led to tribal governments reasserting sovereignty over their reservations. Chambers said it then became the goal of lawyers representing tribes to affirm in court that tribes did have a right to govern their reservations, as well as to protect tribes’ other treaty rights such as to water and to hunt and fish.
The lecture, presented by the Indian Legal Program (ILP) at the College of Law at Arizona State University, is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Armstrong Hall on the Tempe campus. It is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the Steptoe & Johnson Rotunda.
The lecture honors Judge William C. Canby Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a founding faculty member of the College of Law. Judge Canby taught the first classes in Indian law there and was instrumental in creating the ILP.
Chambers, served as Associate Solicitor of Indian Affairs of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1973 to 1976. He was the Department’s chief legal officer responsible for Indian and Alaska Native matters. Chambers then joined the late Marvin J. Sonosky, a longtime attorney for Indian tribes, and Harry R. Sachse to found the law firm that is now Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Endreson & Perry, LLP. The firm specializes in Indian law.
Robert Clinton, Foundation Professor of Law at the College of Law, who invited Chambers to speak at the College of Law said Chambers experience in the field over the last four decades makes him the ideal candidate to speak to the changes that have taken place.
“He has the broadest and widest perspective of anyone in the country, on how Indian law has developed,” Clinton said.
Chambers has taught a seminar on federal Indian law at Georgetown University Law Center and at Yale Law School. He also co-authored the 1982-revised edition of Felix S. Cohen’s landmark treatise on federal Indian law and has published numerous articles.
Chambers taught law for three years as a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and worked extensively with the Native American Rights Fund and California Indian Legal Services.
For more info or to RSVP to attend in person: please visit http://conferences.asucollegeoflaw.com/canby2014/
If you cannot attend a live webcast of this event will be available at law.asu.edu/CanbyLecture2014.
April 19, 2013 – 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
Great Hall, Armstrong Hall, 1100 S. McAllister Avenue, Tempe, AZ 85287
Free and Open to the Public – Registration requested.
Keynote Speaker: S. James Anaya, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Agenda and registration online at: http://conferences.asucollegeoflaw.com/drip/
Contact: Darlene Lester / darlene.lester@asu.edu / 480-965-7715
Sponsored by the Indian Legal Program & the Center for Law and Global Affairs at ASU
CLE Registration $150.00 is available for Attorneys seeking CLE credits.
CLE Credits: 5 CLE Credits for AZ & CA, 5.5 MCLE credits for NM
Live Web-streaming at: http://law.asu.edu/undrip2013
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