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Ninth Annual Indian Law Conference Update
CILA is pleased to announce that the Ninth Annual Indian Law Conference is going to be held at Marriott’s Residence Inn Sacramento Downtown at Capitol Park, 1121 5th Street, Sacramento, California, 95814 on October 9, 2009. We invite anyone who is interested in the practice of Indian law or is interested in any issues related to Indian law to join us.
The California Indian Law Association Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund
The California Indian Law Association Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund supports Native law students, especially those from California tribes and California's urban Indian communities. Scholarships of at least $2,000.00 are awarded annually on the basis of a combination of financial need and academic promise. This scholarship fund is housed at the California Community Foundation, which has a long and distinguished record of managing funds for nonprofit organizations. Donations to the Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund should be made out to the California Community Foundation/Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund, and sent to the Foundation at
445 S. Figueroa StreetAlternatively, contributions can be made on-line at www.calfund.org.
Suite 3400
Los Angeles, CA 90071-1638
The scholarship fund is named in honor of Allogan Slagle, who was a UCLA English major, 1970-1974, and the first UCLA American Indian Studies Master's graduate in 1978. He wrote a thesis, "Somebody Did Medicine," that became a part of The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America (Harper & Row 1987). Allogan went to Loyola Law School and taught Native American law at UC Berkeley, then joined the Association of American Indian Affairs to serve as an attorney for federal recognition of California tribes and pro bono advocate in Native legal matters. For more than twenty years he wrote a column on federal Indian policies for News from Native California, "Groundhog Day," referring to a totemic guardian he discovered on field research in the Dakotas in 1975. Allogan died on December 1, 2002, from a massive heart attack. He is buried in North Carolina Cherokee land, where he began his life. To learn more about Allogan Slagle, read the powerful tribute that UCLA English Professor Kenneth Lincoln published in Volume 26, No. 4 of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 121-29 (2002).
For information about the scholarship, please click here. For more information about the scholarship, or for an application form, contact Christine Williams at christine@williamsjd.com