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 [...]

A conference entitled the International Seminar on the Doctrine of Discovery is being cohosted by the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council and Thompson Rivers University on September 20th and 21st in Kamlopps British Columbia. The conference will address how the colonial doctrine of discovery continues to form the foundation of North American legal systems and how this concept has [...]

I was emailed an article by online colleges in which they rank the 50 best American history blogs. They rated this blog as number 33! http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/07/02/the-50-best-american-history-blogs/

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 [...]

August 9 is the international indigenous peoples' Day. Please check out our blog entry on the Oxford University Press website: http://blog.oup.com/2012/08/doctrine-discovery-indigenous-peoples/

My new book, Reservation "Capitalism:" Economic Development in Indian Country (Praeger Publishers, 2012), received a great review in the August issue of the magazine Choice. Choice is the book review journal of the American Library Association and recommends to libraries which books to buy.  I have been given permission to reprint the review here:   49-7006 E98 [...]