Introduction to ICWA basics:  Colette Routel

Introduction to current ICWA issues (National Perspective).  Keynote speaker, Mark Tilden — Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (author of ICWA Resource Guide)

Tribal Panel (addressing current ICWA issues from the perspective of Indian tribes).  Speakers:  Matt Fletcher, GTB member and Professor at Michigan State Law School; Allie Maldonado, LTBB member and in-house counsel for her tribe.

State Panel (addressing current ICWA issues from the perspective of the state courts).  Speakers:  Judge Laura Baird, Chief Judge, Ingham County; Judge Elizabeth Gleicher, Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals.

Individual Panel (addressing current ICWA issues from the perspective of parents, both Native and non-Native).  Speakers:  Nancy Dean Attorney at law and Tom Meyers, Staff Attorney, Michigan Indian Legal Services.

Each speaker will probably present for 20-25 minutes.  After everyone on the panel has presented, the audience will have time for questions.

250 HH, Thursday 11/13, 12:20-1:20 pm.

Please join NALSA in welcoming the National Indian Gaming Commission’s Chairman, Phil Hogen. Chairman Hogen will discuss the history of tribal casinos and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. He will also shed light on the realities of tribal gaming enterprises, their impact on the economy, and on tribal life.

As an independent federal regulatory agency of the United States, the National Indian Gaming Commission (Commission) was established pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (Act). The Commission’s primary mission is to regulate gaming activities on Indian lands for the purpose of shielding Indian tribes from organized crime and other corrupting influences; to ensure that Indian tribes are the primary beneficiaries of gaming revenue; and to assure that gaming is conducted fairly and honestly by both operators and players.

Mr. Hogen is an enrolled member of Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and has served as the Chairman of the NIGC since 2002.

www.nigc.gov

Agenda Items:

• 1L Welcoming
• Elections
• Discuss NALSA events (Indian Law Day, Federal Indian Law Career Panel)

 
Food provided