Professor Tsosie gave the keynote address on June 12 at the Nova Southeastern University Graduate Schools commencement in Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Fla.
Patty Ferguson-Bohnee’s paper, “Testimony before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs: Oversight Hearing on Fixing the Federal Acknowledgment Process,” is now available on SSRN. This paper includes a nice background on the acknowledgement process.
Great News! Professor Tsosie will stay at ASU! Last week Professor Tsosie sent a note to the Advisory Council, students and alumni stating she will stay at ASU with a slightly reconfigured faculty and administrative role that allows her greater participation at the University level. Patty Ferguson-Bohnee will assume the title of Executive Director on July 1 and Professor Tsosie will be working with her and the other faculty and staff of the ILP on designing the next phase of the Program’s development, which will more fully engage the University’s mission and vision for the future.
Professor of Practice Carl Artman, Director of the College of Law’s Economic Development in Indian Country Program, wrote an article about the Tribal Law and Order Act that was published in the July issue of the Godfrey & Kahn newsletter.
In the law firm’s Indian Nations Law Alert, Artman wrote about the act, which Congress passed on July 21, and President Obama is expected to sign. It will bring accountability to the federal administration of justice in Indian Country and strengthen tribal justice systems, he wrote.The act “seeks to increase coordination and communication among Federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies; reduce violent crime, sexual violence, and drug and alcohol addition in Indian Country; and increase the collection and sharing of criminal data among the different jurisdictional entities,” the article states.
To read it in its entirety, click here. To read other articles by Artman on the firm’s website, click here.
Artman served as the 10th Assistant Secretary — Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior and as the Department’s Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs. An enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, he has worked for his tribe as Director of Federal Affairs, Chief Legal Counsel, and as Chief Operating Officer of an Oneida Tribe-owned telecommunications venture.
Robert Clinton An article by Professor Robert Clinton entitled “Enactment of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988: The Return of the Buffalo to Indian Country or Another Federal Usurpation of Tribal Sovereignty?” will be published by the Arizona State Law Journal.
The article is one of seven papers the Journal will publish from the October 2008 conference, Indian Country’s Winning Hand: IGRA at 20, which was held at the Fort McDowell Resort and Casino.
Rebecca Tsosie Rebecca Tsosie, executive director of the College of Law’s Indian Legal Program, recently served on the Native Women and Intersectionality panel at the Fourth Annual CRS Symposium, “Intersectionality: Challenging Theory Reframing Politics Transforming Movements, Critical Race Studies Program.”
The symposium was held March 11-13 at the UCLA School of Law.
Tsosie is a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Law and Global Affairs, and Affiliate Professor, American Indian Studies Program. She teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory, as well as seminars in International Indigenous Rights and in the College’s Tribal Policy, Law, and Government Master of Laws program. Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, has worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations and serves as a Supreme Court Justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.