On Feb. 11, a federal judge affirmed a $28.6 million arbitration award against the Hualapai Tribe of northern Arizona last week favoring a Las Vegas developer who built the Skywalk tourist attraction on the Hualapai reservation overlooking the Grand Canyon. U.S. District Judge David Campbell upheld the arbitration decision that awarded David Jin, the builder of the glass-bottomed Skywalk, millions of [...]

Another study demonstrates the importance of American Indian tribal economic activities to state economies. A new study of tribes in Oklahoma, http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/6724, demonstrates the impact and contribution of the 39 federally recognized tribes on that state's economy equals $10.8 billion, according to an economic impact analysis released by Oklahoma City University. The study also found that tribal [...]

I'm visiting Australia again and giving talks in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Tasmania at various universities and other locations about the Doctrine of Discovery in Australia and gave one talk about Indigenous economic development.  I just left the Museum of Western Australia in Perth and am struck once again by how sad Australia's treatment of Aboriginal peoples was and the [...]

The Portland Oregonian on Sept. 12, 2012 reported that Columbia River tribal salmon fishers are using new techniques to capitalize more on the value of their catches. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/09/ooodles_of_fall_chinook_savvy.html The fishers have learned to increase the prices they receive by taking better care of their catches and marketing their produce faster. The four tribes with treaty rights to fish [...]

Douglas Nash, the director of the Center for Indian Law and Policy at Seattle University School of Law, just published a very nice review of my new book.  It was printed in the Sept. 12, 2012 edition of This Week From Indian Country Today, at 38.  Professor Nash states in part: "Miller’s is a close [...]

I am one of two keynote speakers at the Native Nations Business Summit in Mandan, ND, Sept. 25-27. I and a couple of the organizers were just interviewed on Prairie Public’s Hear It Now program (on the National Public Braodcast station) about the conference and the issues. You can get the agenda of the conference and read [...]

I just got home from speaking at the two day Wise Practices in Indigenous Community Development Symposium.  I spoke about how Indigenous nations can use economic development to help create sustainable communities for the next seven generations. Brian Calliou, the director of the Aboriginal Leadership and Management project at Banff, led a two-and-a-half year research project in [...]

On August 27, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota held a conference on the law and economics of Indian country You can get a lot of information about the conference and the Bank's work in Indian country at: http://www.minneapolisfed.org/indiancountry/pastevents.cfm   Here is another web page for the Bank's Indian Country Currents (http://www.minneapolisfed.org/indiancountry/) and on CDFI Resources site [...]

This is interesting news and I especially like the part about the tribal government doing its best to ensure that this tribal initiative employs Indian people. According to Indian Country Today, "There are 3,700 Marriott-branded lodging facilities around the world, but one of the newest — Courtyard by Marriott/Scottsdale Salt River — brings two distinctions that [...]

Indian Country Today, reports Aug. 15, at page 14, "A document historic in the realm of Native American and First Nations finance was signed in Winnipeg, Canada on July 17. The Aboriginal financial institution Tribal Wi-Chi-Way-Win Capital Corporation (TWCC), is leading a group of Native American and First Nations-owned capital corporations to start a new [...]