America at 250: History Comes Alive at MOR Treaties on Trial: Sovereignty, Hunting Rights, & the Herrera Decision
July 23 @ 5:30pm
Thursday, July 23
5:30 – 7 p.m. | Hager Auditorium
$0/member; $5/non-member
Registration is required
Explore the landmark Supreme Court decision Wyoming v. Herrera in a panel discussing the continuing importance of treaties between the US and Indigenous Nations.
Join legal experts and former tribal leaders for an in-depth exploration of State of Wyoming v. Herrera, the landmark 2019 Supreme Court decision that reaffirmed the Crow Tribe’s enduring treaty right to hunt on off-reservation lands. Panelists will provide a comprehensive overview of the case, its legal precedents, and its profound impact on the hunting rights and sovereignty of the Crow, Shoshone Bannock, and Eastern Shoshone Tribes.
This discussion offers a unique opportunity to learn about the strategies currently being used to exercise these rights across Montana and Wyoming, guided by the very advocates and leaders who have shaped this legal landscape.
The panel moderator will be Dr. Meredith Hecker, Director of MSU’s Native American Studies department.
Jeanette Wolfley (Shoshone-Bannock): She is a former tribal attorney for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, and has represented tribes in natural resource, treaty, gaming, constitutional, and cultural resource law. She is licensed to practice in the US Supreme Court, tribal, federal, and state courts. She was a professor at Idaho State University and the University of New Mexico and is now retired.
Clint Wagon (Eastern Shoshone): He is a former Eastern Shoshone Tribal Chairman, serving as an advocate for conservation, protection of land, water, and cultural resources. He worked to protect and exercise tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and self-government for tribes.
Heather Whiteman Runs Him (Crow): She is currently Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the Tribal Justice Clinic at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Admitted to Practice Before: United States Supreme Court; State Bar of New Mexico; District of New Mexico; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals; District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. She is formerly of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) where she represented the Crow Tribe in the Herrera case.
