TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS
IN TRANSITION
Feb. 5th & 6th
Friday 9 am to 6 pm
EMU Forum Room .
' “Traditional Tribal
Governments
Indian leaders from
across the nation wil*
speak on
Traditional Indian
Governments
Saturday
9 am to 5 pm
School of Law Room 129
'Symposium on Indian Law"
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best-sel; ng author Vine Detona Jr
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Conference will explore
Native American issues
Traditional tribal governments and Indian law
will be the subjects of a two-day conference that
begins today
The Native American Student Union and
other campus area organizations are sponsoring
the meeting
Today s session to be held in the EMU Forum
Room, will feature tribal representatives from six
areas of the country who will discuss how
traditional tribal governments operated before the
Europeans arrival to what extent those govern
mental forms are used today and how wel they
work with federal Indian law
Speakers will give overviews on past and
present forms of tribal government discuss the
effects of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act and
attempt to pinpoint ways to revise tribal constitu
tions says Sam Ridgebear NASU co-director
"Tribes are coming back to their original
forms of government.” says Duane Bosworth of
the Oregon Law Review The Review wh ch
recently published a revised edition of the Hand
book of Federal Indian Law is sponsoring Satur
day s session of the symposium
Bosworth says the conference is important
because federal policy and other factors affecting
native Americans are at a crossroads
We might be heading into an oppressive
period he says
The Saturday sessions, to be held in Room
129 ot the law school, will concentrate on the
Cohen Treatise Revision a document used na
tionwide for tribal government Indian and con
stitutional law, tribal-state relations. Indian re
sources and reserved rights are some of the
topes that will be discussed A panel discussion
of treaty fishing rights also is scheduled
Sam Delona. American Indian Law Center
director at the University of New Mexico, will
speak on "Indian Law in the 1980s at a 6 30 p m
banquet Saturday
The American Indian Law Students Associa
tion the Council on Minority Education and the
Minority Law Students Association are other
campus organizations sponsoring the confer
ence Other organizations attending the meeting
include the Eugene Indian Center, Eugene Indian
Child Welfare Protect, Oregon Committee for the
Humanities, the Eugene District 4-J Public
Schools, and the NATIVES Proqram
For more information call 686-3723 or
686-3844
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Top officials
resign from
White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres
Ronald Reagan s chief spokes
man announced Thursday the
resignations of Martin Anderson
as White House domestic policy
adviser and Michael Cardenas
administrator of the Small Busi
ness Administration
White House spokesman
David R Gergen said that
though Cardenas one of the
administration's highest rank
ing Hispamcs. is regarded as a
good and honest man the fact
is this job just did not work out
Gergen said he was assured
by several individuals that
Cardenas resignation was un
related to alleged reports of ir
regularities in SBA loans
At the same time James
Sanders an associate adminis
trator for management assis
tance at the SBA was nominat
ed to replace Cardenas Gergen
said Sanders has indicated an
interest in seeing if he could find
a strong Hispanic to become
his deputy
As replacement for Anderson
a conservative-libertarian who
is returning to the Hoover Insti
tution at Stanford University
will be announced in the next 10
days, Gergen said Hts resigna
tion is effective March 1
Friday, February 5,1982