International Indigenous Law Conference Scheduled for October 8 at Tulsa

The University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) College of Law will be hosting a one-day conference on "International Law: Future Impacts on the Tribal-Federal Relationship" on Friday, October 8, 2010.  The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. The program is co-sponsored by the Native American Law Center.  Speakers include Chief J. Wilton Littlechild, the first Treaty Indian to be elected to the Canadian Parliament and a two-term member of the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Julian Burger, former Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples and Minorities Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Robert T. "Tim" Coulter, Founder and Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center.  For more information, please contact Lesley Scruggs at 918-631-3416.

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