Representing clients in all aspects of law affecting Native Peoples
Indian Lands and Natural Resources
Includes the basics of Anglo-American property law, the history of Indian land status, the Federal/Indian trust relationship, Indian water rights, trespass damage claims, Indian land claims, Indian land acquisition, mineral development on Indian lands, leasing, rights-of-way and rights-of-way negotiations, land use planning and tribal land use control, and the comparative status of native land rights in former colonial countries. This seminar has been presented to the pueblos of New Mexico, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the Three-Affiliated Tribes of the Ft. Berthold Reservation, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Nation, the Yakima Nation, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians (Maine), the Hoopa (California), and general Indian audiences. Four days.
