Indigenous Governance Program

A few of our January in Tucson profs are speaking tomorrow at IndigiWellbeing's National Missing Murdered Indigenous People's Day of Awareness Symposium! Tune in via Zoom for as long as you can, register for the link here: https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1YBe8ZyrHQ4S4su

Our next speaker to be announced is Seánna Howard!

Seánna Howard teaches courses in International Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples and is the Director of the International Human Rights Advocacy Workshop. Professor Howard has been a staff attorney and professor with the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program since 2006. She has represented indigenous communities before the Inter-American and United Nations human rights systems, including the Western Shoshone, the Chiricahua Apache, the Navajo Nation and the Water Protectors Legal Collective in the US; the Maya of Belize; and the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group of Canada. Through the Workshop, law students are directly involved in live cases and advocacy efforts before these international human rights bodies. Since the Fall of 2020, Professor Howard and her students have been supporting the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, preparing communications to governments and researching and drafting country reports and thematic studies.
In preparation of our 2nd Annual National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day of Awareness Symposium, we are sharing information on our distinguished speakers!

Register using the link in our Instagram bio or by following the QR code or by following this link: https://tinyurl.com/MMIPSymposium

🚨📰 Interesting commentary on the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act from IGP faculty members Joe Kalt, and Jonathan Taylor. Details below:

Tribes in Maine left out of Native American resurgence by 40-year-old federal law denying their self-determination Three Harvard Kennedy School scholars write that Maine's Wabanaki Nations have been left out of an economic development boom.