Conference Announcement: INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: SUSTAINABILITY, CULTURE AND BUSINESS

          FOURTH ANNUAL LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM

                  INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
                SUSTAINABILITY, CULTURE AND BUSINESS

                           April 4, 2008


     Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon presents its
     Fourth Annual Lewis & Clark Law Review Symposium on April
     4, 2008 from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm on the campus of the law
     school.

     Economic development for Indian tribes and their citizens
     is one of the most important topics in Indian law and
     policy today. Indian gaming gets all the headlines but the
     grinding poverty and lack of economic activity on
     reservations is a fact of life for almost all American
     Indians and their governments. This groundbreaking
     conference brings together eleven scholars from around the
     country, most of whom are tribal citizens and experienced
     in economic development, to discuss this important topic.
     Our panelists will discuss both the practical and the
     theoretical issues facing American Indian governments in
     their task of bringing economic development to their
     reservations that is both sustainable and culturally
     appropriate.


     TOPICS AND SCHEDULE:

     8:00 a.m.    Registration and Continental Breakfast

     8:30 a.m.    Welcome and Introductions
                  Associate Dean Lisa LeSage and
                    Dean Robert Klonoff

     8:45 a.m.    Keynote Address
     Introduction by Bob Miller
     Kevin Gover, Director, National Museum of the American
     Indian, Washington, D.C.

     9:30 a.m.    Session 1
     Gavin Clarkson - "Guaranteed Indians: Tribal Access to
     Capital and the Indian Financing Act."
     David Haddock - "To Tax Tribes or Not to Tax Tribes? That
     is the Question."

     10:45 a.m.   Morning Break

     11:00 a.m.   Session II
     Richard Monette - "A Tribal Constitution for Government and
     Business."
     Wenona Singel - "Judicial Independence and Economic
     Development in Indian Country."

     12:30 p.m.   Luncheon

     1:30 p.m.    Session III
     Alexander Skibine - "Tribal Sovereign Interests Beyond the
     Reservation Borders: Some Implications for Economic
     Development."
     Matthew Fletcher - "Indian Tribal Business and the Off-
     Reservation Market."

     3:00 p.m.    Afternoon Break

     3:15 p.m.    Concurrent Sessions

     Session IV
     Judith Royster - "Economic Development, Natural Resources,
     and the Secretary's Shrinking Resources."
     Kevin Washburn - "The NIGC and the Trust Responsibility."
     Robert Miller - "International and Domestic Treaties to
     Promote American Indian Economic Development."

     Session V
     Oregon State Bar - Indian Law Section

     5:00 p.m.    Conference Closing and Reception
Posted 3/14/08