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The Theatre of Others PodcastTOO Episode 261 - Conversation with Executive Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, Robert FlemingSend your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!Robert Barry Fleming is the Executive Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY. They have a varied portfolio and a wealth of experience as an artistic leader/administrator, producer, director, choreographer, performing artist, teacher and coach. Their directing/choreography credits include Laura Kaminsky’s transgender journey contemporary opera As One (KY Opera); the world premiere of Jonathan Norton’s I Am Delivered’t (Dallas Theatre Center/Actors Theatre of Louisville co-production); the world premiere of Grace, a new musical by Nolan Williams, Jr., and Pulitz...2024-12-161h 14
The Muscogee PodJourney For Justice: Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Poarch BandJoin us as we re-cap the historic trip to Atlanta for oral arguments in Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Poarch Band of Creek Indians before the 11th Circuit US Court of Appeals. We’ll breakdown highlights of the trip, a history of the dispute, and we’ll be joined by MCN’s lead attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle to provide analysis of the most crucial points made during arguments. It’s another “Conversation from our Reservation” that you can’t find anywhere else and that you don’t want to miss!
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The City Lights CollectiveMuscogee Nation continues in decades-long fight against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians; More than 90,000 shelter in place following chemical plant fire in Rockdale CountyFor two decades Muscogee Nation has been fighting for their ancestral tribal land. We hear from Raelynn Butler, the secretary for culture and Humanities for the Muscogee Nation, and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle regarding a lawsuit against the Poarch Band of Creek Indians over their handling of sacred land dating back to 2012.Plus, a shelter-in-place advisory is now in place for more than 90,000 people in Rockdale County following a chemical fire at the BioLab plant in Conyers, Georgia. Air quality surveys done by the Environmental Protection Agency have detected levels of chlorine. Show host Rose Scott checks in...2024-09-3047 min
The CounterThe Arts as Activism—Shaping Culture, Strengthening Democracy with Jon Lawrence RiveraArt is more than entertainment—it’s a powerful force for cultural change and democratic strength. Throughout history, artists have used their work to challenge injustice, amplify diverse voices, and inspire movements for social change. In today’s socio-political climate, the arts—especially live theater—remain a vital space for activism and transformation.
In this episode of The Counter, Penny Ronning and Jon Lawrence Rivera explore how theater and the arts respond to pressing social issues, the importance of authentic representation on stage, and the responsibility of arts institutions to uphold diversity and inclusion. They discuss how artists ca...2024-08-2156 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – January 11, 2024: Helen BenedictBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Helen Benedict, co-author (with Eyad Awwadawnon) of “Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
Helen Benedict is the author of seven novels, including “Wolf Season” and “Sand Queen,” and five books of non-fiction. Her latest book, “Map of Hope and Sorrow,” co-written by Eyad Awwadawnon, a Syrian refugee who was planning to get a law degree in Damascus, is partly an oral history of refugees coming to Greece af...2024-01-1159 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – December 21, 2023: Alice McDermottBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues
Bookwaves
Alice McDermott, whose latest novel is “Absolution,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded December 12, 2023 via zencastr.
Alice McDermott is the author of eight other novels, including Charming Billy, which won the National Book Award in 1998, That Night, which was a National Book Award finalist, and was twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is also author of one non-fiction work, “What About the Baby?”
“Absolution” concerns the young wife of a Naval officer...2023-12-2159 min
Native CirclesMary Kathryn Nagle discusses her New York Premiere of ManahattaWe talk with playwright and attorney, Mary Kathryn Nagle, about what led her to the New York premiere of her play, Manahatta, at the Public Theater, which starts showing on November 16, 2023. Nagle, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, shares insights from her work on the play beginning with her time in the Public Theater Emerging Writers Program in 2013. Nagle's play, Manahatta, follows the story of Jane Snake, a Lenape woman who reconnects with her ancestral homeland, Manahatta, after she comes to New York to pursue a career in finances at the brink of the Great Recession hitting in 2008. Nagle...2023-11-1552 min
Key ChangeConnections Across Time and Space: Opera in the CosmosSeven years ago, Santa Fe Opera started a conversation that would reverberate throughout American Opera, shaping this celebrated art form into something more reflective of the world in which it's created. Today, Opera For All Voices (OFAV) commissions have surpassed even our wildest storytelling expectations. Key Change co-hosts Andrea Fellows Fineberg and Anna Garcia tuck into the time machine for a season-ending trip around the OFAV universe, revisiting the initiative's greatest hits and offering fans a glimpse at what's to come––with Ruth Nott, consultant, Opera for All Voices; Brent Michael Davids, composer; and Mary Kathryn Nagle J.D...2023-04-2643 min
BG IdeasBringing Indigenous Stories Out of the Shadows and into the TheateMary Kathryn Nagle, a lawyer, playwright, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and Dr. Heidi Nees Carver, an assistant professor of theater at BGSU, talk about bringing the stories of indigenous people out of shadows through theater.
Our sound engineers for this episode were Damon Dotson and Jacqueline Schwartz, with audio editing by Deanna McKeigan and Marco Mendoza. Research was provided by Sophia Michalski, with editing by Joe Elia. Our musical intro was composed by Chris Cavera.
Listeners can keep up with ICS happenings by following us on Twitter and Instagram at ICS BGSU, and on...2023-03-1530 min
Infinite Improvisation PodcastCreativity and Indigenous Music: An Interview with Ed LittlefieldInfinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
The first episode of our interview series, a conversation with Ed Littlefield. We discuss Ed's journey studying Native Lingít music alongside jazz, community music making, composing a song for Betty White (first 10 seconds: https://youtu.be/yp0yf5PpqkA), and much more!
Ed Littlefield is a freelance percussionist, educator, and composer based out of Seattle, WA. He is Lingít from Sitka, Alaska and has released three albums featuring traditional native melodies, which he also arranged into the jazz idiom wit...2023-01-041h 26
AmanpourBiden, Xi shake hands. Now what?President Biden met with China’s President Xi Jinping face-to-face for the first time in Biden’s presidency today, speaking for over three hours at the G20 summit in Bali. The White House said the conversation was candid about issues like human rights, climate Taiwan, and of course Russian aggression in Ukraine. To discuss the meeting, Christiane speaks with former Chinese government official Victor Gao and Michael Beckley, an American expert on China who previously worked at the Pentagon.
Also on today's show: CNN's Nic Robertson reports from the newly liberated city of Kherson; Journalist Dina Amer, co-wr...2022-11-1454 min
UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham“Every Hashtag is a Human Being”: Honoring the Five-Year Anniversary of #MeTooIt’s been five years exactly since millions of people, most of them women, stepped forward to say #MeToo. What have we learned since then? In our season finale, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham sits down with Tarana Burke, the woman who started the movement back in 2006, along with playwright/attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, and organizer/attorney Monica Ramirez. Their conversation is a reflection on our post-#MeToo world—and what we actually owe survivors. But first, as always, your UNtrending news. Note: For more information on how to help the fight in Iran, visit Iran...2022-10-2048 min
Between Two Mics: The Remote Recording PodcastSquadCast Presents: Manny Faces' News Beat PodcastManny Faces is a SquadCaster and the host of many podcasts. One of those podcasts, and an award-winning one at that, is called News Beat. Today on the SquadCast podcast, we're featuring an episode of that show! The episode is called MMIWG2S: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit People. It's a heavy topic, but one that we feel is important to share. Thank you to Manny and the team for sharing it with our audience.Here's What Happens in This Episode:Bernadette Smith scours the depths of the Red River in Manitoba...2022-10-111h 09
News BeatMMIWG2S: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & Two-Spirit PeopleBernadette Smith scours the depths of the Red River in Manitoba for her missing sister and other women and children murdered and dumped in its murky waters. Duana Johnson comforts families of those who’ve vanished from reservations throughout the U.S. Northwest. Mary Kathryn Nagle battles for justice on behalf of the mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, and nieces stolen, tortured, raped, and killed. These Native women represent the countless voices extinguished by the ongoing genocide confronted by the MMIWG2S movement. Who’s committing these atrocities, and why isn’t more being done to stop them?!? This special episod...2022-08-131h 06
The Muscogee PodIndian Country's Hardest Working Couple with Jonodev Chaudhuri and Mary Kathryn NagleIn this episode we talk with Muscogee Nation Ambassador and former Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission Jonodev Chaudhuri and Mary Kathryn Nagle, legal counsel for the National Indian Women's Resource Center and famous playwright. We discuss a host of topics in Indian Country including the reauthorization of VAWA, the lead-up and aftermath of the McGirt decision, litigating the Indian Child Welfare Act and some of the projects that have made Nagle one of America's most-produced Native playwrights. You don't want to miss this "Conversation from our Reservation."
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AMERICAN DIAGNOSIS with Dr. Céline GounderS4E5 / Power to Police Perpetrators / Lisa Brunner, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Alfred UrbinaEditor’s Note: This episode includes descriptions of violence that some might find disturbing. Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence, can take the form of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse. If you or someone you know is experiencing intimate partner violence, help is available. StrongHearts Native Helpline provides culturally appropriate support and advocacy for Indigenous women. Call 1-844-7-NATIVE or text the corresponding number: 1-844-762-8483. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233. — Mary Kathryn Nagle is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an attorney, a playwright ― and an advo...2022-03-1629 min
American Indian AirwavesMary Kathryn Nagle in Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and ArtistsSacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists is part of ongoing series with special host Albert “Abby” Ibarra who interviews Mary Kathryn Nagle. Nagle is currently a partner at Pipestem Law, where she specializes in federal Indian law and appellate litigation. Nagle filed an amicus brief in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on behalf of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) in pursuit of ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle is a leading voice among indigenous theatre artists. She served as Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, a program designed to sup...2022-01-2757 min
American Indian AirwavesMary Kathryn Nagle in Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and ArtistsSacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists is part of ongoing series with special host Albert “Abby” Ibarra who interviews Mary Kathryn Nagle. Nagle is currently a partner at Pipestem Law, where she specializes in federal Indian law and appellate litigation. Nagle filed an amicus brief in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on behalf of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) in pursuit of ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle is a leading voice among indigenous theatre artists. She served as Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, a program designed to sup...2022-01-2757 min
American Indian AirwavesMary Kathryn Nagle in Sacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and ArtistsSacred Stage: Talks with Native Playwrights and Artists is part of ongoing series with special host Albert “Abby” Ibarra who interviews Mary Kathryn Nagle. Nagle is currently a partner at Pipestem Law, where she specializes in federal Indian law and appellate litigation. Nagle filed an amicus brief in Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on behalf of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) in pursuit of ending domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle is a leading voice among indigenous theatre artists. She served as Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program, a program designed to sup...2022-01-2757 min
Indigenae PodcastRestoring protection for our community: MMIWG2S and the Law with Mary Kathryn NagleMary Kathryn Nagle (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation) answers questions about the legal framework around the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit. She explains how a 1978 Supreme Court decision failed to protect Native people from violence perpetrated by non-Natives, and what has happened since to restore Tribes’ rights to prosecute crimes committed on tribal land. Mary Kathryn joined Pipestem & Nagle, P.C. in 2015 from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in New York City, where she specialized in complex commercial litigation related to structured finance, bankruptcy, and federal qui tam actions. She has dra...2021-11-3031 min
Spirit in ActionCameroonians, Cherokees, Republicans, Playwrights - We All Need to Solve Climate ChangePeterson Toscano of Citizen's Climate Radio guest-hosts today, visiting with Jacques Kenjio from Cameroon, Mary Kathryn Nagle of the Cherokee Nation and partner in a small law firm where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. She is also a playwright, putting these issues on stage. Also featured is Geraldo Cadava, the author of The Hispanic Republican. Lastly, Elli Sparks, currently Citizens Climate Lobby’s Director of Field Development, is author of Tell Me A Story, a conversation between a parent and a child, and a story within a sto2021-08-1255 min
Ending Domestic AbuseIndigenous Women Face an Epidemic of ViolenceIn this episode, Dr. Ludy Green sits down with Mary Kathryn Nagle, Cherokee citizen, lawyer, playwright, and activist.
They discuss the often silent epidemic of violence faced by Indigenous women and children, and the mental, emotional, and physical toll of intergenerational violence and trauma. They also explore the legal, social, political, and economic reforms that must happen to bring justice to Indigenous communities.
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Cases and ControversiesNinth Circuit's Slump Continues at Supreme Court, With Yet Another ReversalThe Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Ninth Circuit on immigration and criminal justice, adding to the San Francisco-based appeals court’s string of high court losses.Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Jordan Rubin break down those cases along with a third on a computer-hacking law that featured unusual alignments in the majority and dissent.Federal Indian law expert Mary Kathryn Nagle joins the podcast to explain the Ninth Circuit criminal case, United States v. Cooley, where the court affirmed tribal sovereignty and authority over non-Indians driving through reservations.2021-06-0430 min
Citizens Climate Radio Climate Change PodcastEp 60 Sovereignty, Land Rights, and Climate Change with Mary Kathryn Nagle and Jacques KenjioAs impacts of climate change affect the places where we live, conflicts and questions arise. This is what happened to Jacques Kenjio and his family in the costal city of Douala, Cameroon. Although a tribal chief provided them with legal documentation to occupy the land, the government forced them and hundreds of others to leave without providing any compensation. This motivated Jacques to learn about social justice and to pursue higher education in the United States.
Jacques Kenjio is a Ph.D. Candidate in environmental studies at Antioch University New England (AUNE) with a focus on two key areas: Government-Driven...2021-05-2830 min
All My Relations PodcastProtect Indigenous WomenSince the onset of colonization Indigenous women have experienced violence with reckless abandon, today it is a public health emergency. Traditionally, many of our Native societies are matrilineal but settler colonialism has disrupted our traditional value systems. These shifts have tragically contributed to the epidemic of violence we see committed against our women and Two Spirit relations. The issue is systemic and this episode discusses how we must hold systems and people accountable. Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) is a playwright and lawyer with Pipestem Law, a firm dedicated to legal advocacy for the safety of Native women a...2021-05-051h 36
All My Relations PodcastProtect Indigenous WomenSince the onset of colonization Indigenous women have experienced violence with reckless abandon, today it is a public health emergency. Traditionally, many of our Native societies are matrilineal but settler colonialism has disrupted our traditional value systems. These shifts have tragically contributed to the epidemic of violence we see committed against our women and Two Spirit relations. The issue is systemic and this episode discusses how we must hold systems and people accountable. Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) is a playwright and lawyer with Pipestem Law, a firm dedicated to legal advocacy for the safety of Native women a...2021-05-0500 min
Art Works PodcastRick DildineTheaters (and all live performance) are struggling to get through the pandemic. Most have been closed since March, and artistic directors are kept up at night with a host of questions: when people will be willing to gather indoors to watch a play together? What will that room even look like? How will theaters keep their actors, crew and audiences safe? How can theaters survive until that moment we can all come together again? And how can theater speak to this moment? And artistic directors—along with many in the theater community—have answered these questions with wit and imagi...2020-12-0426 min
New Books in Native American StudiesMary Kathryn Nagle, "Sovereignty" (Northwestern UP, 2020)In Sovereignty (Northwestern University Press, 2020) playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle weaves together two stories separated by 170 years but joined by a common dilemma: how can Cherokee people fight for justice under an unjust colonial legal framework? In present-day Oklahoma, Sarah Ridge Polson attempts to bring her abuser to justice using the Violence Against Women Act. In 1835, her ancestors try to defend the inherent jurisdiction of the Cherokee Nation against the encroachments of the state of Georgia. Nagle combines her art as a playwright with her training as a lawyer to craft a taught legal drama that illuminates the complexities of...2020-07-2848 min
Speaking Our Truth - Podcast For ChangeSCOTUS Update with Mary Kathryn Nagle Supreme Court VAWA Sovereignty Initiative Update: McGirt v. Oklahoma and the Standing Rock Sioux NIWRC amicus briefs. Music: "Why" | Album: ILLUMINATIVES (2018) | Artist: Supaman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiVU-W9VT7Q) 2020-06-1516 min
Audrey Helps Actors PodcastLeveling Up - Charley FlyteThis week Audrey Moore talks with Charley Flyte about leveling up, finding a supportive community, and the current landscape of Native Americans and indigenous representation in show business. SPONSORS: www.WeAudition.com - Promo Code Audrey25 for 25% off! Dana Patrick Photography Links: Mary Kathryn Nagle Larissa FastHorse Native Voices Credits: Host: Audrey Moore Produced by Jesse Lumen Edited by Patricia Cuffie-Jones and Jesse Lumen Mixed by Thomas Snodgrass Thi...2020-03-021h 14
OnStage Colorado podcastRoundup: Colorado New Play Summit 2020In this episode of the OnStage Colorado podcast, host Alex Miller catches up with four of the playwrights who had readings of their work at the Denver Center Theatre Company's annual Colorado New Play Summit. Interview subjects include Jessica Kahkoska, whose comedic and mystical play In Her Bones is set in Southern Colorado; Alma by Benjamin Benne, which focuses on the perils of being an undocumented immigrant in the Trump era; Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi, a comedic drama about two couples in a pressure-cooker situation in Egypt; and Reclaiming One Star by Suzan Shown...2020-02-2527 min
OnStage Colorado podcastRoundup: Colorado New Play Summit 2020In this episode of the OnStage Colorado podcast, host Alex Miller catches up with four of the playwrights who had readings of their work at the Denver Center Theatre Company's annual Colorado New Play Summit. Interview subjects include Jessica Kahkoska, whose comedic and mystical play In Her Bones is set in Southern Colorado; Alma by Benjamin Benne, which focuses on the perils of being an undocumented immigrant in the Trump era; Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi, a comedic drama about two couples in a pressure-cooker situation in Egypt; and Reclaiming One Star by Suzan Shown...2020-02-2500 min
New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)“Sovereignty” Play, Blue-Green Algae Blooms, Military $ Diverted for Border WallThis week, art imitates life on New Mexico in Focus. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales sits down with attorney and playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle. Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center recently hosted a stage reading of her play, “Sovereignty.” The production is set in both the 1800s and in modern times and tells the story behind a landmark jurisdiction case won before the the U.S. Supreme Court by the Cherokee Nation. Nagle explains how her career as an attorney affects her storytelling style. She also explores the continuing struggles in the theater world for accurate representations of Indigenous people and is...2019-09-1456 min
OPB's State of WonderColson Whitehead | Black Life Experimental Research Group | Mary Kathryn Nagle | Alex ChiuDon’t trust your textbooks. This week — artists and writers whose work is illuminating the histories that have been pushed to the margins. We might not always get it right, but it’s important we try.2019-04-0650 min
Adventures in Artslandia With Susannah MarsPlaywright Mary Kathryn NagleLiving superhero Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and the playwright of Crossing Mnisose, which was commissioned as part of Portland Center Stage at The Armory's Northwest Stories series. The play has its world premiere in April. Nagle manages to have her feet firmly planted in some of the most traumatic untold stories of American history and remains active and hopeful for the future in her work toward ending domestic violence and sexual assault and at the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. Need inspiration? Here it is.
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America Speaks PodcastMary Kathryn Nagle- Protecting the Sovereign Rights of Tribal Governments and Improving the Lives of Native PeopleMary Kathryn Nagle is a playwright and a partner at Pipestem Law, a firm specializing in tribal sovereignty of Native nations and peoples. She was born in Oklahoma City, OK, and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.[1] She currently serves as the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program Nagle is an alumna of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group, a prestigious program supported by The Public Theater for up-and-coming playwrights. During her time in the Emerging Writers Group she wrote Manahatta, a play that received recognition from the groups that give the...2019-01-1414 min
America Speaks PodcastMary Kathryn Nagle- Protecting the Sovereign Rights of Tribal Governments and Improving the Lives of Native PeopleMary Kathryn Nagle is a playwright and a partner at Pipestem Law, She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.[1] She currently serves as the executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program
Nagle is an alumna of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group, a prestigious program supported by The Public Theater for up-and-coming playwrights. Sliver of a Full Moon is one of her most successful works to date, that tells the story the trauma of violence against women.2019-01-1414 min
The Spitfire Podcast with Lauren LeMunyanSovereign Rights Through a Playwright and Law Partner's Perspective - Mary Kathryn NagleMary Kathryn (MK) Nagle is no stranger to a courtroom, a theater stage and hard work. With her fingers glued to the keyboard, MK is a masterful machine when it comes to storytelling - which I learned is very helpful when writing briefs. She has written over 9 plays all while serving as a partner at Pipestem Law, a firm specializing in tribal sovereignty of Native nations and peoples. MK is a true SpitFire and connects her passion to her family's history in order to educate generations to come. 2018-05-2126 min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courtsJudging Tribal CourtsDahlia speaks with attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle about Dollar General Corporation v.Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, a major Native American rights case argued at the Supreme Court earlier this month.Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Our email is amicus@slate.com.Subscribe to our podcast here. You can find past episodes of our show here.Podcast production by Tony Field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2015-12-2434 min
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Live EventsFact or Fiction?: The United States Courts’ Use of History to Shape Native Law Jurisprudence
Part 2Since the first court decision to articulate Native American law back in 1823, our nation’s courts have repeatedly invoked historical "facts" as a basis for fashioning judicial doctrines that have been prejudicial and harmful to Native Americans. This important symposium reveals that many of our modern Native law doctrines are based in fiction, not fact. Join us as we explore the historical foundations of key court decisions impacting Native Americans. Speakers include Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law; Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), Crowe "&" Dunlevy, Oklahoma; Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart "&" Sullivan, New York; and Lindsay Robertson, University of Oklahoma Co...2011-10-0700 minSmithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Live EventsFact or Fiction?: The United States Courts’ Use of History to Shape Native Law Jurisprudence
Part 1Since the first court decision to articulate Native American law back in 1823, our nation’s courts have repeatedly invoked historical "facts" as a basis for fashioning judicial doctrines that have been prejudicial and harmful to Native Americans. This important symposium reveals that many of our modern Native law doctrines are based in fiction, not fact. Join us as we explore the historical foundations of key court decisions impacting Native Americans. Speakers include Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law; Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), Crowe "&" Dunlevy, Oklahoma; Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart "&" Sullivan, New York; and Lindsay Robertson, University of Oklahoma Co...2011-10-0700 min