Andrea Martin has posted “Beyond Brackeen: Active Efforts Toward Antiracist Child Welfare Policy,” forthcoming in the Yale Law and Policy Journal, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Due to structural racism, legal protections afforded to families of children in the foster care system have been significantly eroded and continue to be challenged. As a result, […]…
Category: Native Americans
Bethany Hughes on the History of Natives at UMich — Turtle Talk (now updated with YouTube of the lecture)
The University of Michigan has a complicated history with Native American communities, which were vital to its very existence. Join us for a discussion with Bethany Hughes, assistant professor of American Culture, on the historic and ongoing activism of Native American students. Can U-M Fulfill Its Promise to Native Americans?Fifty Years of Native American Student ActivismThursday, […]…
Sault Tribe/Kewadin Gaming Enjoined from Concealing or Dissipating Assets in Gaming Development Company Dispute [recall the $88M judgment] — Turtle Talk
Anyone who can read “legal” can see how f***ed up this order is!!!!!!! It’s messed up in so many ways as far as someone taking the law into their own hands. A few glaring outrages are not allowing the Defendant to have a notice of hearing higher up in the order but towards the bottom…