Charles Wilkinson featured in Athearn Lecture Series

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:22:34 +0000

Charles Wilkinson featured in Athearn Lecture Series Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/26/2017 - 11:22

CU Law and CNAIS Core faculty, Charles Wilkinson will be delivering the Department of History's annual Athearn Lecture this year.

"Writing a Tribal History: My Long and Rewarding Journey with the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon."

DATE: Thurs. Jan. 26, 2017

TIME: 5 PM - a reception will follow the lecture

WHERE: Eaton Humanities 150

Dr. Charles Wilkinson

Professor Wilkinson's primary specialties are federal public land law and Indian Law. Most recently he's been in the news for his role in the Bear Ears Monument - see CNAIS story. His Law School bio page includes the following:

In addition to his many articles in law reviews, popular journals, and newspapers, his fourteen books include the standard law texts on public land law and on Indian law. He also served as managing editor of Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the leading treatise on Indian law. The books he has written in recent years, such as 1992's The Eagle Bird, are aimed at a general audience, and they discuss society, history, and land in the American West. He won the Colorado Book Award for Messages From Frank's Landing, a profile of Billy Frank, Jr. of the Nisqually Tribe of western Washington. In his book, Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations, he poses what he calls "the most fundamental question of all: Can the Indian voice endure?" In his latest book The People Are Dancing Again: The History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon, Professor Wilkinson writes about how the history of the Siletz Tribe is in many ways the history of many Indian tribes: a story of heartache, perseverance, survival, and revival. Prior to joining the faculty of Colorado Law School, Charles Wilkinson practiced law with private firms in Phoenix and San Francisco and then with the Native American Rights Fund

Dr. Athearn

The late Prof. Robert G. Athearn (1914–1983) was a professor of Western History at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1947 until his retirement in 1982.As part of his legacy, Dr. Athearn endowed a lectureship in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder to be held on topics in Western history.

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CNAIS & CU Law faculty Dr. Wilkinson instrumental in Bear Ears Monument process

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:03:35 +0000

CNAIS & CU Law faculty Dr. Wilkinson instrumental in Bear Ears Monument process Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 01/06/2017 - 11:03

CU Law & CNAIS Core Faculty Charles Wilkinson

On Wed., Dec. 28, 2016, President Barack Obama announced the designation of Bears Ears National Monument, a measure conceived in part by Professor Charles Wilkinson. The president’s designation will protect approximately 1.35 million acres of federal land surrounding the Bears Ears Buttes in southeastern Utah.

Five tribes—the Hopi, Navajo, Ute Mountain Ute, Uintah and Ouray Ute, and Zuni—formally organized the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition in July 2015. Since then, he has served on a pro bono basis as senior advisor to the tribes. Wilkinson was one of the main architects behind the coalition’s overall strategy, including the October 2015 proposal to Obama for the creation of Bears Ears National Monument. Read the full story here.

“This is the first national monument ever brought forth by tribes,” Wilkinson said. “Tribes have signed off, usually as minor signatories on other monument proposals, but this is the first time they’ve taken the lead. The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition is the most amazing grassroots coalition I’ve ever seen.”

Prehistoric Granary overlooks Cedar Mesa - photo by Josh Ewing

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