Indian Law
Gift of the Clairmont Family
- Tribal Governance
- Draft and Establish Codes and Laws relating to self-governance
- Labor & Employment
- Develop tribal employment policies & procedures
- TERO
- Investigations for human resources
- Tax Agreements
- Elections
- Contract Negotiations
- Sovereignty
- Indian Gaming
- Tribal Government representation before National Indian Gaming Commission
- Gaming regulatory compliance
- Indian Child Welfare
- Represent tribal social services in State and Tribal Court proceedings throughout Minnesota on cases involving tribal children
- Represents parents of tribal children in child protection proceedings
- National Indian Child Welfare Act training
- Land Tenure
- Assist in tribal acquisition of both trust and free land
- Heirship issues
- Estate planning needs related to trust land
- Leases and land use planning
- Fee to trust applications to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Business Development
- Form tribally-owned/chartered corporations
- Form joint ventures between tribally-chartered corporations and other tribal and non-tribal corporations
- Develop financing structure for tribal projects
- Draft and review management and operations agreements
- Tax counsel
- Real Estate development projects
- Tribal Court
- Tribal Court Development
- Prosecutions on behalf of tribal governments in tribal court
- Public defender in tribal court
- Representation of tribal and non-tribal members in tribal court in criminal matters
- Representation of tribal and non-tribal members in family court matters in tribal court
- Per Capita garnishment defense
- Representation of tribal social services in tribal court