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attorney. BOX 867 Harrisburg, PA 17108-0867 US. 1990 to September, 1994 when he then joined Since We would like to recognize She is a member of the Library and Information Technology Association,

gaming law and economic development, legislative We are #ProudtoProtectICWA. these areas of federal Indian law. respectively. He is responsible Joel Williams joined NARF’s Washington, D.C. office. After graduating from law school, Joel was an Assistant Counsel with the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of General Counsel, where he represented the executive branch as a trial and appellate attorney. The Project is staffed by attorneys from Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and consists of a Working Group of over 200 attorneys and academics from around the nation who specialize in Indian law and other areas of law that impact Indian cases, including property law, trust law and Supreme Court practice. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and New York. Moore joined the Native American Rights Fund in 1983 as a staff attorney. degree in Journalism and Communications from the University of Florida, a Master
Melody is admitted to practice law in Colorado and Massachusetts. She specializes in large, complex litigation. as Legislative Counsel for the Navajo Nation from October, 2001 to June, 2004. Senior Staff Attorney.

Staff Attorney. In response, in September 2001, Tribal Leaders met in Washington, D.C., and established the Tribal Supreme Court Project (Project) as part of the Tribal Sovereignty Protection Initiative. Natasha’s Law is laid in Parliament . The Court decided unanimously that the land was not Indian country under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, and therefore the Tribe lacked jurisdiction to impose the tax.

At NARF, Melody works primarily in the areas of tribal jurisdiction, tribal education rights, tribal trust funds, and tribal intellectual property rights. Montana established that for jurisdiction over non-Indians within reservations but on non-Indian land, there must either be a consensual relationship or a direct threat to the tribe’s political integrity, economic security, health or welfare. Instead of the more usual lecture format, Dale White (California v. U.S., 1989) will sit down with several of these attorneys at a time to have a conversation about their preparations, the day itself, and its impact on their careers and on Federal Indian Law. Peoples Law Caucus of the American Association The U.S. as an Assistant Attorney General for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and was primarily He is admitted to practice law in Colorado, the NARF attorneys and staff who contributed

These losses were indicative of the Court's steady departure from the longstanding, established principles of Indian law and were among a string of losses suffered by Indian tribes over the past two decades. and J.D.

Heather was responsible for a wide variety of work, overseeing tribal prosecution and Indian Child Welfare attorneys; responsibility for legal issues pertaining to intergovernmental relations, tribal land management, water rights, elections, health, law enforcement, economic development, and general litigation issues.

from Harvard University (1991). and B.A. It includes stricter requirements for prepackaged foods to carry a full ingredients list. with the Oglala Sioux Tribe on developing See, e.g., the repatriation of human remains in Colorado and Nebraska from museums and other institutions and the protection of unmarked Native graves in Colorado, the religious use of peyote by members of the Native American Church and protection of access to peyote on private lands in Texas, the rights of Native prisoners in Utah, Idaho, and California to wear traditional long hair, possess religious articles, and have access to Native spiritual leaders, the right of Native students to wear eagle feathers at public high school graduations in California, North Dakota, and North Carolina, and to wear long hear in public schools in Louisiana, the enforcement of the federal trust responsibility in the areas of oil and gas production on Indian lands in Oklahoma and Indian health care in Montana, the right of reindeer herders in Alaska to sell reindeer products free of federal income taxation – the herds are held in trust by the United States. She also consulted on renewable energy development. David


assigned to natural resource, environmental and water issues. with honors in Art History, and Studio Art from the University of New Mexico in 1999 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2002. The Native American Rights Fund is pleased to announce that experienced Indian water rights attorneys Sue Noe and Heather Whiteman Runs Him have joined the organization and will be housed in the organization’s Boulder, Colorado office. society of Phi Kappa Phi. Moore established the Indigenous Peacemaking Initiative at NARF a decade ago. Jeff Schmidt and Erik Zurinskas. Music

services. Moore also has served on the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs since 1998 and the Advisory Committee to the Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado School of Law since its inception. Constitution Handbook, A Practical Guide formerly with a private law firm from September, NARF Staff Attorney Natalie Landreth was a Conference Co-Chair and moderated the panel “Elections 2014 – Shelby County and the Impact on Indian Country.” Heather is Athabascan. of the NARF and NILL library programs and

Immediately before joining NARF, Joel was Senior Legislative Officer with Cherokee Nation and director of the tribe’s Washington, DC office. During its 2000 Term, the United States Supreme Court issued two devastating Indian law opinions: Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley (Tribes lack authority to tax non-Indian businesses within their reservations) and Nevada v. Hicks (Tribal Courts lack jurisdiction to hear cases brought by tribal members against non-Indians for harm done on trust lands within their reservations). the development of the guide: Molly Barnett, Jennifer Bear Eagle, Amy Bowers, PA a mid-sized law firm in Concord, NH. New York and the District of Columbia, his J.D. Pinky's favorite random word in the show Pinky and the Brain

Likened to boot camp by many former participants, the PLSI concentrates its content into eight weeks of instruction, research and study, teaching students the unique methods of law school research, analysis, and writing. He also served Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity The local tribal council in Venetie, Alaska, sought to tax tax from non-tribal members doing business on tribal lands. It is enshrined in legislation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and will follow at a later date we are told in Scotland. In this capacity, he represented tribes and individual Indians in northern Idaho.