About Us
The University of Arizona NativeNet is a collaborative effort of over a dozen internationally-recognized programs of academic excellence in Native American affairs at The University of Arizona. In existence since 2006, it is led by UANativeNet’s coordinating partners: the Native nations Institute (NNI), the Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy (IPLP) Program and the Native Peoples Technical Assistance Office (NPTAO).
NNI serves as a self-determination, governance, and development resource for Indigenous nations in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. IPLP is recognized as the world’s leading university-based program for excellence and innovation in research, training, and advocacy in indigenous peoples’ human rights law and policy studies, as well as in federal Indian law and tribal law. NPTAO provides a program of university-based technical assistance, service, and outreach in the areas of economic and community development, technology transfer, and educational opportunities in partnership with Native Nations.
Dr. Manley A. Begay, Jr. is both director of the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy in the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and senior lecturer/associate social scientist in the American Indian Studies Program at The University of Arizona. He teaches read more...
Stephen Cornell is Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy at The University of Arizona, where he also serves as Faculty Associate with the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management read more...
Joseph P. Kalt is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Since 2005, he also has served as a visiting professor at The University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. He read more...
Melissa Tatum is a Professor of Law and Associate Director, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP) and specializes in tribal jurisdiction and tribal courts, particularly in the context of domestic violence and protection orders, as well as in issues relating to read more...
Joan Timeche is the Executive Director of the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (NNI) at The University of Arizona. For the eight years prior to joining the NNI staff in January 2001, Timeche served as Program Director of Northern Arizona read more...
An enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, Professor Williams is the author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest (Oxford University Press, 1990), which received the Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Center Award as one of the read more...
John “Rocky” Barrett has served as Citizen Potawatomi Nation Chairman since 1985. He has served the tribe as an elected official for over 25 years, beginning with his first elected position as Vice Chairman in 1971. He is also president of Barrett Drilling Company, an independent read more...
Dr. Manley A. Begay, Jr. is both director of the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy in the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and senior lecturer/associate social scientist in the American Indian Studies Program at The University of Arizona. He teaches read more...
Stephen Cornell is Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy at The University of Arizona, where he also serves as Faculty Associate with the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management read more...
Vine Deloria, Jr, prominent author and seminarian, published his first of more than twenty books, entitled Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, in 1969. In it, Deloria addressed Indian stereotypes and challenged white audiences to take a new look at the history of American read more...
Kirstin is a 2010 graduate of University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, LL.M. program in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Idaho College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2009. While there she was the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief read more...
Nicole Friederichs is an attorney specializing in federal Indian law, indigenous peoples rights and international human rights law. She is currently a Practitioner-in-Residence at Suffolk University Law School, developing an Indian law and indigenous peoples rights clinic. She worked on read more...
Gabriel S. Galanda, a descendant of the Nomlaki and Concow Tribes and enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, practices law in Seattle with Williams Kastner’s Tribal Practice Team. Gabe, as past President of the Northwest Indian Bar Association and Chair of the Washington read more...
Mary Guss earned her law degree in 1976 from Lewis & Clark. She then traveled to Alaska to clerk for the Ketchikan Superior Court Judge for a year. Three decades of practicing law in Alaska followed (including eight years as a part‑time federal magistrate judge read more...
Professor Hershey has specialized in Indian Affairs for nearly four decades, beginning with his work as Staff Attorney for the Fort Defiance Agency of Dinebeiina Nahilna Be Agaditahe (DNA Legal Services) on the Navajo Reservation. Since 1983, he has served as Special Litigation Counsel and Law read more...
Joseph P. Kalt is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Since 2005, he also has served as a visiting professor at The University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. He read more...
Lance Morgan, a citizen of the Winnebago Tribe, is CEO and one of the initial founders of Ho-Chunk, Inc., the development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Ho-Chunk, Inc., won the Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations ( read more...
Dr. Rodríguez-Piñero holds a PhD from the European University Institute, in Florence. He has published an international monograph on indigenous peoples rights, Indigenous Peoples, Post colonialism and International Law (OUP, 2005), as read more...
Marren Sanders is currently a law professor at the Phoenix School of Law. She was formerly a Curriculum Development Manager with the Native Peoples Technical Assistance Office at the University of Arizona where she developed certificate level distance learning courses on read more...
Melissa Tatum is a Professor of Law and Associate Director, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP) and specializes in tribal jurisdiction and tribal courts, particularly in the context of domestic violence and protection orders, as well as in issues relating to read more...
Joan Timeche is the Executive Director of the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (NNI) at The University of Arizona. For the eight years prior to joining the NNI staff in January 2001, Timeche served as Program Director of Northern Arizona read more...
An enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, Professor Williams is the author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest (Oxford University Press, 1990), which received the Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Center Award as one of the read more...