Professor Miller will be the keynote luncheon speaker at the Seventh Semiannual Native American Finance Conference, on Tuesday October 16, 2007 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut.
He will also speak about his book at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center on October 19 or 20.

Professor Miller was interviewed on three different radio programs this weekend about his book Native America, Discovered and Conquered and the comments Pope Benedict made in Brazil May 13 and his “apology” of May 23.  
1.  With host Albert Cata May 26 on Native America Radio Live on Santa Fe, New Mexico’s KSFR-FM.
2. With host Robin Carneen on NAMAPAHH First People’s Radio on KSVR 91.7 [...]

Pope Benedict has apparently, sort of, admitted the truth today about the forced religious conversions of the native peoples of the New World. But at the same time he did not repudiate the statements he made on this subject on May 13 as was demanded by indigenous leaders and by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Chavez [...]

Indian Country Today columnist Kara Briggs reports that since May 14 the U.N. Sixth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples has broken attendance records at the two-week forum with 2,500 registrants.
She reports that the primary goal of the forum is to advocate for the passage of the U.N. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.  The draft [...]

HBO is showing its new movie based on the Dee Brown book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee starting May 29.  An Indian Country Today gives it a favorable review.

Indian Country Today reports that the Alaska Native government of Eklutna Village has filed a class II gaming application with the National Indian Gaming Commission.  This move has revived long-standing efforts in the Alaska Legislature to revisit the federal recognition of tribes in Alaska.  Two Republican state legislators sent a letter on May 1 to the Interior Department Secretary Dirk [...]

Representatives of indigenous nations and the Organization of American States (”OAS”) met in La Paz, Bolivia April 23-27 in their 10th session of negotiations to draft an OAS Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 
Agreement was reached that the indigenous peoples of the Americas have the right to express their spirituality, to pass on their traditions, to have [...]

Former Minnesota United States attorney Thomas Heffelfinger was one the federal prosecutors the Bush administration considered firing.  He resigned last year, apparently voluntarily.
But during her recent testimony to Congress, Department of Justice White House liaison Monica Goodling stated that Heffelfinger was considered for removal because he spent “an extraordinary amount of time” on prosecuting crimes related to Native Americans.  Heffelfinger has [...]

Go to the LA Times web page to read today’s editorial by Professor Miller about Pope’s Benedict statement yesterday sort of apologizing for comments he made May 13.  On May 13, in a speech to Latin American bishops the Pope stated that the forced conversions and oppression of indigenous peoples of the New World purified [...]

On December 7, 2006, the Washington Supreme Court held that tribal governmental corporations that conduct commercial enterprises outside reservation borders were protected by tribal sovereign immunity, and that the tribal supervisor was also immune as to actions he took pursuant to his official capacity.  Wright v. Colville Tribal Enterprise Corp., 159 Wash.2d 105, 147 P.3d 1275 (2006).