“Native Water Law and Public Policy: Critical Issues in the Great Lake and St. Lawrence
Watershed”
-- 8:00 Continental Breakfast
-- 8:30 Cornell Welcoming:
Ronald Seeber, Cornell Vice-Provost for Land Grant Affairs
Barbara Holden-Smith, Associate Dean, Cornell Law School
Host: Jane Mt. Pleasant, Director, American Indian Program
Native Elder Opening and Blessing
-- 9:00 Thinking Like a Watershed
Robert Porter, Director of the Center for Indigenous Law, Syracuse U. Title: “Land, Water & the Pesky Matter of Indigenous Survival”
Frank Ettawageshik, Native Rep. to the Great Lakes Regional Commission (US & Canada) and Tribal
Chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan. Title: “Water, Treaty Rights, and Native Traditions in Multi-Sovereignty
Environments”
-- 10:15 Coffee Break
-- 10:30 Native Education, Law, and Water: Panel Session
Dan Hill, Cayuga Nation Representative to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force Title: “Water and Natural Law”
Scott Frazier, Director, Native Waters/Project WET (Bozeman, MT) Title: “Teaching Water: West Meets East?”
Troy Richardson, Dept. of Education, Cornell University Title: “The Challenge of Bringing Native Perspectives into School Curricula”
Commentary: Maria Maybee, Great Lakes United Board Member and Heron Clan, Seneca Nation.
-- 12:30 Lunch
-- 1:00 Luncheon Address:
Dan McCool - Dept. of Political Science and Director of the American
West Center and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Utah Title: “Reservation Rivers: Can they be Restored?
-- 1:45 Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Watershed Issues: Surveying Native Community Experiences:
Neil Patterson, Tuscarora Representative to the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force Title: “Niagara River Water Treaties”
Tony David, Environmental Division, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Title: “Challenges of Better Standards (under Clean Water Act Amendments) at Home”
Joyce King, Director, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. Title: “A Seaway of Water Issues for Native People”
Commentary: Sharon Anderson, Watershed Steward, Cayuga Watershed Network and Chris Andronicos, Dept.
of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell
-- 3:00 Coffee
-- 3:15 Reflections and Perspectives on Water, Law, and Education
Joe Heath, Attorney, Onondaga Nation
Dean Suagee, Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker
Barbara Holden-Smith, Associate Dean, Cornell Law School
-- 5:30 Closing
November 18, 2006
-- 8:30 Continental Breakfast
-- 9:00 Law across Time, Place, and Culture
Hosts: Leslie Saint, Editor in Chief, Journal of Law and Public Policy and
Summer Sylva, Symposium Event Editor, Journal of Law and Public Policy
-- 9:15 Recent Milestones in Federal Indian Law
John LaVelle, University of New Mexico School of Law Title: “Advocating a Return to Indian Law Principles: An Old Game in a
New Court”
Robert Clinton, Arizona State University College of Law Title: “New Indian Treaty Federalism”
Commentary: Eric Cheyfitz, Department of English, Cornell University and Paul Williams,
Attorney for Six Nations Grand River Territory, Ontario
-- 10:30 Coffee Break
-- 10:45 Native Water Rights, Present and Future
Judith Royster, University of Tulsa College of Law Title: “Tribal Water Rights in Eastern States”
Dan McCool, University of Utah Title: “The Politics of Life Blood: Protecting Indian Water Rights”
Dean Suagee, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP Title: “Water Quality, Tribal Sovereignty, and Environmental Federalism”
Commentary: Neil Patterson, Tuscarora Representative to the Haudenosaunee Environmental
Task Force and Keith Porter, Director, NYS Water Resources Institute
-- 12:30 Lunch – Cornell Law School Atrium
Luncheon Keynote Address: Henry Lickers, Director of the Mohawk Council of
Akwesasne, Department of the Environment Title:“If Water Flows Downhill, Why is its Protection an Uphill Fight?”
-- 2:00 Practitioners Look at Transboundary Water Challenges
Moses Haia, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation Title:“The Damning of Traditional and Customary Native Hawaiian
Water Use Rights”
Greg Haller, Snake River Basin - Nez Perce Tribal Office of Natural Resources Title: “Snake River Basin Adjudication - Nez Perce Tribe Water Rights Settlement”
Paul Williams, Attorney for Six Nations Grand River Territory, Ontario Title: “Principles and Performance”
Steve Moore, Native American Rights Fund, Colorado Title: “Water Challenges of the Kansas Kickapoo”
Commentary: Jeffrey Rachlinski, Cornell Law School and Maymangwa Miranda, CLS ’06, Judicial Clerk
for the US Court of Federal Claims
-- 4:00 Interactive Plenary
Presiding: Henry Lickers, Director of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, Department of the Environment Points of Discussion: Summary of issues, unanswered questions and looking forward
-- 5:00 Traditional Closing - Kyrie A. Ransom, American Indian Program
