Today, Katherine Johnson and Jalen Rose (of MJLR) and Caleb Hawpetoss (UM NALSA) convened a panel discussion about two Indian law articles recently published by the Journal. I brought donuts.
Alexis Studler (+Fletcher obnoxiously inserting self)
Alexandra Fay (more MF, too, still in the way)
Kaighn Smith (+MF yet again)
Here are the materials so far in Mashkikii Boodawaaning (Medicine Fireplace) Inc. v. Chippewa Valley Agency Ltd. (W.D. Wis.):
11 Amended Complaint.PDFDownload
Here is the brief in Held v. State of Montana:
Ezra Rosser has published “Progress and the Taking of Indigenous Land” in the Ohio State Law Journal.
Here is the abstract and some images supplied by Ezra:
The taking of Indigenous land in furtherance of other societal goals is so ubiquitous and so fundamental to the American project that sometimes acts of dispossession…
Correct room is JH 0220
Here:
Lower court materials here.
Bryan Newland, Shawn Deschene, Ira Matt, Nikki Enersen, and Kristen Carpenter (not in that order, mixing it up today)
Alexis Studler has published “Reviving Indian Country: Expanding Alaska Native Villages’ Tribal Land Bases Through Fee-to-Trust Acquisitions” in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law.
Here is the abstract:
For the last fifty years, the possibility of fee-to-trust acquisitions in Alaska has been precarious at best. This is largely due to the Alaska…
M. Henry Ishtani and Alexandra Fay have published “Revising the Indian Plenary Power Doctrine” in the Michigan Journal of Race & Law.
Here is the abstract:
The federal Indian law doctrine of Congressional plenary power is long overdue for an overhaul. Since its troubling nineteenth-century origins in Kagama v. United States (1886), plenary…
