The nation’s lawyers have a new leader, Mary L. Smith, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The gavel was handed to her Tuesday afternoon by the now former president, Deborah
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Bipartisan staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs were at the first Western Regional Native Hawaiian Convention held in Las Vegas to highlight that Congress has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in dedicated federal funding, the most ever, for Native Hawaiians and to seek input on amending legislation to extend protection to Native Hawaiian art and artists for the first time.
Yale Law School has expanded its offerings in federal Indian law, an increasingly topical area of study and practice in which student interest is growing.