Berkey Williams LLP is delighted to announce that Dillon Dobson, a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, is the Firm’s 2022-2023 Indian Law Fellow. Dillon earned his BA in Community Organizing and Indigenous Realities from the University of Redlands. Dillon was a Vine...
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Berkey Williams LLP is delighted to announce that Janet Bill has been elected to serve on the Tribal Council of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians. Council Member Bill was formally sworn in to tribal office on October 25, 2021. Ms. Bill served as the Firm’s...
Berkey Williams LLP is pleased to welcome Vincent P. Redhouse, the Firm’s 2021-2022 Indian Law Fellow. Our Indian Law Fellowship is dedicated to supporting the Indian law leaders of the future. Vince Redhouse is a member of the Navajo Nation. He received his law...
The Tenth Circuit held on September 30, 2020 that aboriginal water rights are alive and well in the state of New Mexico. The federal district court had concluded that Spanish colonization extinguished the rights of Jemez, Santa Ana, and Zia Pueblos to the waters of...
At the association’s 18th annual conference at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA, Ms. Erica Costa was nominated and elected to the Board of Directors of the California Indian Law Association (CILA). CILA is a volunteer based 501(c)(3) non-profit...
