Federal Indian Law, Fall 2009
Jurisprudence, Fall 2009
American Indians and American Law, Spring 2009.
Jurisprudence, Spring 2009.
Federal Indian Law, Fall 2008.
American Indians and the U.S. Supreme Court, Spring 2008.
Federal Indian Law (Law 204), Fall 2007.

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Instructor

American Studies (AmSt 3113)
Peoples of Color and the Law: Legal Histories and Understandings
Spring 2006

American Indian Studies/Law school (AmIn 5920/Law 6032)
American Indians and the U.S. Supreme Court
Fall 2005

English Composition (EngC 1014). 2003-2004 academic year
English Composition (EngC 1001). 2001-2002 academic year

Teaching Assistant

American Studies, 2004-2005 academic year.
Popular Culture 1900-1940, (AmSt 3252) fall semester
Popular Culture 1940-present, (AmSt 3253) spring semester

American Studies, 2002-2003 academic year
Popular Culture 1900-1940, (AmSt 3252) fall semester
Popular Culture 1940-present, (AmSt 3253) spring semester

American Indian Studies. Spring 2001 (American Indian Literature)

Turtle Mountain Community College

Instructor

Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure (Leg 202), Fall 2005.

PUBLICATIONS

A Legal Pluralist Approach to Tribal Constitutions,
36 William Mitchell Law Review, Issue 2 (forthcoming).

John Marshall, Peacemaker Courts, and Sovereign Immunity.
Encyclopedia of U.S. Indian Policy and Law. Eds. Paul Finkelman and Tim Alan Garrison. Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

The Bethel Therapeutic Court: A Study of How Therapeutic Courts Align With Yup’ik and Community Based Notions of Justice
30 American Indian Law Review 133, Fall 2005. With John M. Ptacin and Jeremy Worley.

The Rehnquist Court & Indigenous Rights: The Expedited Diminution of Native Powers of Governance
2003 Publius: The Journal of Federalism 83-110, with David Wilkins.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Tribal Constitutional Choices outside of the IRA: the 1959 Turtle Mountain tribal constitutional reformation.
Native American & Indigenous Studies Association. First annual conference, May 21-23, 2009.

Constitutional Choices: The IRA and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
Native American and Indigenous Studies: Who Are We and Where Are We Going?
An International Scholarly Meeting held by the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. Athens, GA. Apr. 10 - 12, 2008.

Tribal Constitutions Before and After the IRA: The Turtle Mountain Experience.
American Society for Ethnohistory, 2007 Annual Meeting. Tulsa, OK. Nov. 7 - 10, 2007.

Are Lawyers Storytellers? (this is not the beginning of a lawyer joke): What the Story of the Political and Legal History of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Indians Might Be Able To Tell Us
8th Annual CIC-AIS Graduate Student Conference. Iowa City, Iowa. April 13 - 14, 2007.

We the People…: The Birth of the Turtle Mountain Tribal Constitution and the Indian New Deal
Organization of American Historians, 2007 Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 29 - April 1, 2007.

Making Claims, Making Government: How the Turtle Mountain Claim Against the United States Shaped its Tribal Government
American Society for Ethnohistory, 2006 Annual Meeting. Williamsburg, Virginia. November 1-5, 2006.

A Constitution Of, By, and For Nobody: The Anomaly of Tribal Constitutions as Studied Through the 1932 Turtle Mountain Tribal Constitution
7th Annual CIC-AIS Graduate Student Conference. Bloomington, Indiana. April 20 - 22, 2006.

Chair, On the Edge: Expression of Indigenous Nationhood and Borders
Paper, Tribal Borders, Nationhood Defined: The Turtle Mountain Reservation and its Constitution
American Society for Ethnohistory, 2005 Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico. November 16-20, 2005.

The Indian Canons of Construction: Fragile Shields
MidAmerica American Studies Association Annual Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 15-16, 2005.

Canons of Construction: Federal Indian Law Revisited
6th Annual CIC-AIS Graduate Student Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. April 8-9, 2005

American Indian Tribes and the U.S. Supreme Court
American Political Science Association’s 99th Annual Meeting and Exhibition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 27-31, 2003 With David Wilkins.

Public Lectures

Why Take Indian Law Courses?
University of North Dakota School of Law. September 3, 2008.

Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism: The Turtle Mountain Experience.
University of North Dakota School of Law. April 18, 2008.

AWARDS

University of North Dakota School of Law
2007-2008 - Northern Plains Indian Law Center Fellow

University of Arizona Law School
2006-2007 - Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program Fellowship
2005 Graduate Research Partnership Program Award (with Brenda Child)

University of Minnesota Law School
Dean’s List, 2003-2004 academic year
Dean’s List, 2002-2003 academic year
Royal Stone Scholarship, University of Minnesota Law School

University of Minnesota Graduate School
Turpie-Bowron Fellowship, , American Studies
Mulford Q. Sibley honorable mention senior paper award, American Studies