Eulogy for Jennifer Pavelich Clinton by Sheldon F. Kurtz June 17, 2010 When Jenny Clinton died last Monday, a light was prematurely extinguished. a light that for 35 short years brightened our lives in so many ways. I was privileged to have that light in my life almost from the moment Jenny was born and, [...]
Jennifer Pavelich Clinton November 02, 1974 – June 14, 2010 Iowa City, Iowa Jennifer Pavelich Clinton, 35, of Iowa City chose to end her life Monday, June 14, 2010. Memorial services will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 17, 2010, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City with Rabbi Jeffrey [...]
Code of Indian Offenses
Feb 24
For years scholars have described the Code of Indian Offenses, first adopted by the federal government in 1883, as a reservation criminal code designed to cover lesser misdemeanors. The Code of Indian Offenses helped create the Courts of Indian Offenses, which at their height imposed on perhaps two-thirds of the nation’s Indian reservations a federally [...]
The Indian Legal Program at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, American Indian Policy Institute at ASU, American Indian Law Center, Inc., Native Nations Law and Policy Center at University of California, Los Angeles, National Congress of American Indians, National Indian Gaming Association, Arizona Indian Gaming Association, and the [...]
The following correction has just been posted on the Inside Higher Education website. The original can be viewed at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/09/qt: The members of the investigative committee that explored allegations of research misconduct against Ward Churchill have unanimously adopted a statement that identifies one misstatement in their report, offers additional language to fix that mistake, and [...]
American racism has deep roots and persistent effects. Its most recent manifestation occurred when an overwhelming majority (76%) of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma voted to amend their new tribal constitution to require for the first time a degree of Indian blood for enrollment as a citizen (member) of the Nation. The fact that it [...]
Ward Churchill Report
May 31
A large portion of my activities during the spring 2006 semester were taken up serving as one of two outside members on the University of Colorado Investigatory Committee Regarding Allegations of Research Misconduct by Ward Churchill. The final report of that committee can be found here and, we hope, largely speaks for itself.
Today, I delivered a talk entitled Indigeneous Treaties: A Comparative New Zealand/United States Peespective in which I jusxtaposed the treatment of the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 with the Maori in New Zealand with the treatment of American Indian treaties in the United States. A copy of the talk can be secured in Acrobat format [...]
I was recently reading Mark Kurlansky’s excellent popular history 1968: The Year that Rocked the World and came across the following portion of a speech delivered in 1968 as apart of Robert F. Kennedy’s ill-fated candidacy for the Presidency: ” We will find neither national purpose nor national satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic [...]
Clinton's Lore
Oct 25
This article is taken form the weekly issue of the New Zealand Listener published October 30-November 5 2004 Vol 196 No 3364 Clinton’s Lore by Steven Price When tribes no longer see themselves as victims, this gives them incredible spiritual strength, says a visiting expert on American Indian law, who sees parallels with the situation [...]