P.A.D. Webinar Series: Indian Law 101 - Welcome to Indian Country
Tuesday, March 9th at 8:00 PM Eastern (5:00 PM Pacific)
There are 574 federally recognized Tribes in the United States. Each Tribe is a sovereign government that is responsible for a broad range of activities on Tribal lands including: judicial systems, public safety, health, environmental protection, and much more. This webinar will give you a broad overview of the history of Federal Indian law and policy.
Our Presenter:
Connie Tsosie de Haro (International Board Member-at-Large, McManus Chapter, Robert E. Redding Alumni Chapter)
Connie Tsosie de Haro is from the Diné (Navajo) Nation and currently serves as Member-At-Large for the International Executive Board of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International. She works as Democratic Counsel for the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
She has previously served as a Wilma Mankiller Legal Fellow at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). Prior to NCAI, she worked as a law clerk at the Office of the Solicitor in the Division of Indian Affairs at the U.S.
Department of the Interior.
Connie graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law with a certificate in Indigenous People's Law. She was on the Editorial Staff of the Tribal Law Journal, taught for the Marshall
Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project in Jemez Pueblo, and served as a Legal Observer for the Guantanamo Military Commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She also served as Vice Justice of the McManus Chapter at UNM Law. Concetta is a 2013 graduate
of the Pre-Law Summer Institute and served as a T.A. in 2014. She also holds a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Political Science from the University of New Mexico.
