Upcoming Presentation on Tribal/State Relations and Library Display

On Thursday, September 19 at 3:00 p.m., the USD Native American Law Student Association and the USD School of Law are hosting a presentation by P. Sam Deloria, board member of the American Indian Graduate Center, Albuquerque, NM.  Deloria will speak on Tribal/State Relations in the Law School Courtroom.  After Mr. Deloria's presentation, there will be a discussion panel with other experts in the area, including Professor Frank Pommersheim of USD Law, J.R. LaPlante, director of the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations, and Philip Mahowald, general counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota.  Both LaPlante and Mahowald are graduates of the USD School of Law.

To accompany the presentation, the law library is currently featuring a display which features a recent article by Tasse Hanna, Sam Deloria, and Charles E. Trimble, The Commission on State-Tribal Relations: Enduring Lessons in the Modern State-Tribal Relationship, 47 Tulsa L. Rev. 553 (2011-2012).  The display also features print titles on tribal/state relations, as well as information on the South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations website and resources.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)