Native American Law

• Law Schools: Number of Native American Students Increasing in Oklahoma

In Oklahoma, it's not just the law that's gone tribal. Officials at each of the state's three law schools said the number of Native American students has increased and those numbers continue to climb.

• The Journal Record
• December 07, 2011

• Acting Atf Director Michael Sullivan Delivers Remarks at the National Native American Law Enforcement Association's 15th Annual National Training Conference

ACTING DIRECTOR SULLIVAN DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATIONS 15TH ANNUAL NATIONAL TRAINING CONFE...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 21, 2009

• Native American Law Is Focus of Program

MOSCOW, Idaho -- Angelique EagleWoman remembers the moment when she decided she wanted to devote her life to law. She was 8 and watching the television in her family's living room in 1978 when news broke that her uncle, a black man who had married into a Native American family, was beaten by five deputies when he went pay a speeding ticket was awarded $75,000 in punitive damages.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• July 19, 2009

• Appleby Law PLLC Selected as 'Law Firm of the Year' in Native American Law.

Recognition from "U.S. News - Best Lawyers" is the only one conferred nationally in Indian law practice ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Appleby Law PLLC, an Alex...

• Business Wire
• November 01, 2011

• Louis Quijas Delivers Remarks at the National Native American Law Enforcement Association Annual Convention

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR QUIJAS DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION, MEMPHIS, TENNESS...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 21, 2009

• Native American law and order: Angelique EagleWoman.

Title: Associate professor of law and James E. Rogers Fellow in American Indian Law, University of Idaho College of Law. Education: LLM, University ...

• Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• January 07, 2010

• United States v. Washington: the Boldt decision reincarnated.

Native American shellfishing rights

• Environmental Law
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 3, September 1999

• Prohibition Era Atf Investigator Killed in the Line of Duty in 1935

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today honored the first Native American, post-Prohibition era, ATF investigator to be killed in the line of duty. At a memorial ceremony during National Police Week, the name of William Louis Pappan, killed 75 years ago, Dec. 4, 1935, was unveiled at the ATF Headquarters Memorial Wall, Washington, as ATF honored the fallen. ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson provided remarks and representatives from the Department of Justice, the National Native American Law Enforcement Association, and Pappan's family were in attendance. ATF recently discovered information concerning Pappan while researching related topics. Last September 2010, during a Bureau of Indian Affairs awards dinne...

• U.S. Newswire
• May 11, 2011

• Broadening the legal landscape: more law schools are establishing and expanding Native American law course offerings, which are increasingly being regarded as a fundamental component of a well-rounded law education.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Brenda Christie, the study of Native American law has proven to be not just a way to better understand her Cherokee herit...

• Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• November 29, 2007

• Native American Law

I have been trying for the past year to retain a lawyer in Aroostook County and I contacted the Maine State Bar Association for a referral but they informed me that there wasn't any lawyer available to take my case. It's hard to understand why this is. Native American tribes in Maine come under federal jurisdiction so federal law applies in all reservations. The University of Maine School of Law should provide more curriculum in so that future lawyers in Maine would be more knowledgeable in federal and American Indian law.

• Bangor Daily News
• January 25, 2006