23rd Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference

March 26-28, 2009
FREE and OPEN to the public!
All events at Tripp Commons, Memorial Union, unless otherwise indicated.

Thursday, March 26

7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Opening Reception, Brocach Irish Pub & Restaurant, 7 West Main Street

Friday, March 27

8:30 a.m.
Welcome
President Wilfrid "Willy" Cleveland, Ho-Chunk Nation
Wunk Sheek Drum
Breakfast provided by Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Wall Street, Main Street & Reservation Roads: The Financial Crisis and Indian Country
Carl Artman, Godfrey & Kahn
Rory Dilweg, Holland & Knight
Aaron Harkins, Faegre & Benson

10:30 - 10:45
Break

10:45 - noon
Expert Witnesses & Testimony in Indian Treaty Law
Mary Ann Naokwegijig-Corbiere, Native Studies, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada
J. Randolph Valentine, UW American Indian Studies

noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)

1:30 - 3:00
Keynote Address: Citizenship
Chad "Corntassel" Smith, Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation
Introduction by Michael D. Oeser, Hastie Fellow, UW Law School

3:00 - 3:15
Break

3:15 - 4:30
Women in Law & Government
Heidi Frechette, Wisconsin Legislative Council
Wendy Helgemo, National American Indian Housing Council
Dawn Sturdevant Baum, Native American Rights Fund

7:00 - 10:00
Banquet Dinner, Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue
Guest of Honor Henry Buffalo, Jacobson Buffalo Magnuson Anderson & Hogen
Featuring Pipestone Singers
Sponsored by the State Bar of Wisconsin Section on Indian Law

Saturday, March 28

9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Intertribal Disputes: Who Has Jurisdiction?
Skip Durocher, Dorsey & Whitney
Melissa Tatum, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

10:15 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 11:30
Intergovernmental Agreements: Mutual Aid and the Future of Community Cooperation
Thomas Bellavia, Assistant Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice
Kekek Jason Stark, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
Rebecca M. Webster, Oneida Nation

11:30 - 12:30
CLE on Tribal Probate
David Armstrong, Wisconsin Judicare

12:30 p.m.
Walk to Wunk Sheek Pow Wow
Grand Entry begins at 1:00 p.m.

Our sponsors include:

American Indian Student Academic Services; Associated Students of Madison; Faegre & Benson; Holland & Knight; the Indian Law Section of the Wisconsin State Bar; Multi-Cultural Council, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin; UW Law Alumni Association, Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek; Wunk Sheek, and others.