Join the LWV Moscow for a speaker series event, Native Voices and Tribal Perspectives on Hot Topics in American Justice, featuring professors Dylan Hedden-Nicely and Neoshia Roemer.

Moscow is located on Nez Perce ancestral land, but issues of justice in our community – and across the nation − are seldom discussed with tribal perspectives at the forefront. Two experts will provide an introductory overview of three timely and controversial issues: (a) treaties and tribal sovereignty vis-à-vis the powers of states; (b) the tribal heritage of Native children as potentially impacted by litigation challenging the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA); and (c) the authority of tribes to enforce the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) against non-Indian perpetrators of violence against Native women in Indian Country.

Dylan Hedden-Nicely, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is an associate professor and director of the University of Idaho College of Law’s Native American Law Program. He graduated magna cum laude from the College of Law with an emphasis in Native American law as well as natural resources and environmental law. He chairs the Idaho State Bar Indian Law Section and sits on the Governing Council of the Northwest Indian Bar Association.

Neoshia Roemer is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho College of Law where she teaches courses in family law and Native American law. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law where she also earned a Law and Indigenous Peoples Certificate and served as a member of the Tribal Law Journal board.