Past Events, Conferences & Trainings
Native American Finance Officers Association's (NAFOA) Spring Finance Conference for Indian Country
When: March 22-23, 2011
Where: Pala Casino Resort & Spa, Pala, CA
Description: Topics included: Accessing Capital in Indian Country; Investment Strategies; Economic Development/Diversification; Economic Recovery Forecast for 2011 and Beyond; Distressed Credits and Restructuring Approaches; IRS, Accounting, GASB, GASAC, and Auditing Updates; Tribal Opportunities in Renewable/Clean Energy; state of Tribal Gaming. For more information, please click here to visit NAFOA's website.
US EPA Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances spoke at ASU
Steve Owens, the US EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Pesticide Programs and Toxic Substances, spoke on February 16 2010 at the ASU Law School in Professor of Law Gary Marchant’s class on Nanotechnology, Law and Policy. Assistant Administrator Owens’ presentation was co-hosted by the ASU American Indian Policy Institute as well as the Center for Law, Science & Innovation and the Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
Assistant Administrator Owens is the former director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and was an attorney in private practice for many years. He will be speaking on technology and toxics as well as on tribal pesticide regulatory programs.
Navajo Nation Government Forum
When: Wednesday October 28, 2009
5.30pm to 8.30pm
Where: Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
"Great Hall" Lecture Room, ASU
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ASU Sponsors:
- Indian Legal Program
- American Indian Policy Institute
- American Indian Student Sipport Services
- Multicultural Student Services
- ASU Navajo Students For politics Committee
- Phoenix Indian Center
- American Indian Council
For more Information please contact Kate Rosier (480) 965-6204
Tribal Financial Manager Certificate Program
The inaugural program was held in September 2009 at ASU Tempe Campus!
The second annual program was held on May 18th - 20th 2010.
See what ASU News has to say about the TFMC program!
National Congress of American Indians
2009 Mid-Year Conference
"Tribal Nations Investing in the Future"
Niagara Falls, NY
June 14-17, 2009
- Joint Air Toxics Assessment Project: A Successful Multi-jurisdictional Environmental Science Research Partnership
~ Patricia Mariella, Ph.D., Director, American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State Univ.
~ Margaret Cook, Director, Gila River Indian Community Dept. of Environmental Quality
~ Ondrea Barber, Interim Director, Environmental and Natural Resoruces Dept., Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Environmental Workshop
May 27, 2009
The application of federal environmental law in Indian Country was the focus of a recent workshop presented by the ASU American Indian Policy Institute and the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. The workshop was held May 27 for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community's Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Department in the state-of-art training room at the new Salt River government complex.
Ann Marie Downes, an attorney and director of the Indian Legal Program Graduate Programs in the College of Law, and Patricia Mariella, the institute's director, conducted the workshop.
Among discussion topics were well-known cases in Indian law, including Dura v. Reina, which originated on the Salt River-Maricopa Indian Community. Other discussion centered on the development of federal Indian policy, civil and regulatory jurisdictional issues.
The workshop is the first of several on environmental compliance and enforcement that the Institute will be conducting with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, according to Mariella.
"The community is a national leader in tribal environmental management, having been the first to develop a pesticide regulatory program in the late 1970s," she said.
ASU's American Indian Policy Institute provides technical assistance for tribal governments in the development of policies, law and structure. It also provides information to state, local and federal policymakers concerning Indian law and policy.
