Indigenous People’s Day: Contemporary Legal Issues in Indian Country

The President’s Council on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’s First Speaker of the 2024/2025 Speaker’s Series will be Dallin Maybee, JD of the Northern Arapho / Seneca Nation. Dallin will discuss a range of current topics on Indigenous environmental equity, social justice, voting rights, treaty rights, and tribal sovereignty with time for Q&A.

About the Speaker: Dallin Maybee is an accomplished artist, public speaker, performer and is currently the Assistant Director of Development at the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in Boulder, CO. NARF “holds governments accountable … fighting to protect Native American rights, resources, and lifeways through litigation, legal advocacy, and legal expertise.”

See: https://narf.org/cases/ for cases and projects.

Dallin has a B.A. degree in Philosophy, as well as a Juris Doctorate from the Sandra Day O’Conner College of Law with an emphasis in Federal Indian Law. He currently sits on the Denver American Indian Commission; the Truth, Restoration, and Education Commission; and is on the Boards for the First Peoples Fund and for the American Indian Policy Institute.

Event Date and Zoom Link:

OCTOBER 14, 2024 – 4:00 PM (MST) https://nmhu.zoom.us/j/96714030455

Land acknowledgement: We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral territories of Indigenous Peoples including the 19 Pueblos, the Apache, the Comanche, the Diné, the Kiowa, and the Ute. We pay our respects to elders both past and present. And, we recognize these Peoples were displaced to accommodate others in the name of progress. With humility, we recognize and respect all Indigenous Peoples, their histories, and their ties to the land.