Media Coverage of Emerging Leaders Seminar
November 2013

NNI's executive education seminar for Emerging Leaders, held November 6-7, 2013 here in Tucson, AZ, was featured in a recent article in Indian Country Today. Read the article here>

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executive education programming here>

Seelau and Record Op-Ed on Sovereign Immunity
November 2013

NNI staff, Ryan Seelau and Ian Record, with invaluable input from several Indian law practitioners and scholars, published a two-part op-ed on Indian Country Today's website about the upcoming Supreme Court case: Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community. 

The case concerns, among other things, the legal doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity, which the Supreme Court may strike down partially or entirely.  The articles consider the various possible outcomes of the case and how Native nations can get ahead of the curve by planning for life without sovereign immunity today.

• Will the Supreme Court Use Bay Mills Case to Blow Up Tribal Sovereignty? (November 5, 2013)
• How Tribes Can Prepare for Tribal Sovereignty Blow from Supreme Court (November 8, 2013)

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In the News - Rebuilding Native Nations Distance-Learning Course Series

• University of Arizona News story on the curriculum’s launch (September 9, 2013)
• Ian Record appearance on Arizona Illustrated (link to video, August 19, 2013).
• RNN course series featured in Indian Country Today (June 2013).
• Record interview on the Martha Fast Horse radio show in Minneapolis (May 2013).

Visit course series homepage here>

Cornell Knowledge Exchange in New Zealand

Stephen Cornell, Director of the Udall Center and NNI Faculty Associate, travelled to New Zealand this summer, where he taught an intensive four-and-a-half day course, “Governance, Sustainability, and Indigenous Business Development,” to Maori students at Waikato-Tainui College of Research and Development, engaged with staff and leadership of the Ngai Tahu iwi (tribe), and spoke at the nation-wide Iwi Leaders Forum. Cornell’s recent activities add to NNI and Cornell’s longer-term comparative research project on governance trajectories in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States.

Learn more about NNI’s international research program here> 

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