Archive for September 2024
VIDEO: Dr. Aimée Craft Keynote – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Dr. Aimée Craft is an Associate Professor at the Faculty Law, University of Ottawa. She is a lawyer from Treaty One territory in Manitoba and is of mixed Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) and settler ancestry. She holds a University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water. Craft is an internationally recognized academic leader in the area of Indigenous laws, treaties and water. Dr. Craft had to Zoom in due to COVID. Filmed in Mahnomen, MN on the White Earth Reservation on June 24, 2024. The Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference was sponsored by the Niibi Center.
Read MoreVIDEO: Dr. Darren Ranco Keynote – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Darren Ranco Darren J. Ranco, PhD, a citizen of the Penobscot Nation, is a Professor of Anthropology, Chair of Native American Programs, and Faculty Fellow at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. He has a Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. Dr. Ranco had a family emergency and had to Zoom in.
Read MoreVIDEO: Judge Korey Wahwassuck Keynote – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Korey Wahwassuck (Cree) serves as a Minnesota District Court Judge for the Ninth Judicial District. Judge Wahwassuck previously served as tribal court judge for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Court, was a founding member of the first Joint Tribal-State Jurisdiction Wellness Courts in the nation and authored “The New Face of Justice: Joint Tribal-State Jurisdiction” for the Washburn Law Journal and “Building a Legacy of Hope: Perspectives on Joint Tribal-State Jurisdiction” for the William Mitchell Law Review. Judge Wahwassuck is also a member of Project T.E.A.M. (“Together Everyone Achieves More,”) helping other jurisdictions create tribal-state collaborative courts of their own.
Read MoreVIDEO: Steve Newcomb Keynote – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Steven Newcomb is a Shawnee-Lenape scholar and author. He has been studying and writing about U.S. federal Indian law and policy since the early 1980s, particularly the application of international law to Indigenous nations and peoples. Mr. Newcomb is the Director of the Indigenous Law Institute, which he co-founded with Birgil Kills Straight, a Traditional Headman and Elder of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Together they have carried on a global campaign challenging imperial Vatican documents from the fifteenth century.
Read MoreVIDEO: Tribal Law and Policy Institute Panel Discussion – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
TLPI Panel Discussion – 2nd Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference. Facilitated by Judge Korey Wahwassuck and featuring Judge Abby Abinanti, Judge Megan Trueur, and Stephanie Autumn.
Read MoreVIDEO: Frank Bibeau Opening Keynote – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
Frank Bibeau, White Earth Tribal Attorney – Director, Tribal Rights of Nature Program at Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) gives a talk on local and large-scale efforts to utilize treaty law to protect sacred resources like nibi (water) and manoomin (wild rice). Filmed in Mahnomen, MN on July 23, 2024 on the White Earth Indian Reseravation.
Read MoreVIDEO: White Earth Rep Eugene Sommers – Second Annual Anishinaabe Law Conference
As the White Earth District II Representative, Eugene Sommers was voted in by and specifically serves the communities of Waubun, Naytahwaush and Mahnomen. He shares some of his thoughts on Tribal efforts to reclaim the traditional land base. Filmed in Mahnomen, MN on July 23, 2024 on the White Earth Indian Reseravation.
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