Keith Richotte

Assistant Professor of Law
richotte@law.und.edu

Keith Richotte

TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP
EDUCATION
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PUBLICATIONS
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
AWARDS

TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota Graduate School
American Studies, expected graduation December 2007 (currently ABD)

University of Arizona Law School
LL.M., May 2007

University of Minnesota Law School
J.D., May 2004

University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Arts, May 2000
Majors: American Indian Studies, American Studies
Minor: French

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of North Dakota, School of Law

Instructor

Federal Indian Law (Law 204), Fall 2007

Faculty Advisor

Native American Law Students Association

University of Minnesota

Instructor

American Studies (AmSt 3113) Peoples of Color and the Law: Legal Histories and Understandings
Spring 2006

American Indian Studies/Law school (AmIn 5920/Law 6032) American Indians and the U.S. Supreme Court
Fall 2005

English Composition (EngC 1014). 2003-2004 academic year
English Composition (EngC 1001). 2001-2002 academic year

Teaching Assistant

American Studies, 2004-2005 academic year.
AmSt 3252 Popular Culture 1900-1940, fall semester
AmSt 3253 Popular Culture 1940-present, spring semester

American Studies, 2002-2003 academic year
AmSt 3252 Popular Culture 1900-1940, fall semester
AmSt 3253 Popular Culture 1940-present, spring semester

American Indian Studies. Spring 2001 (American Indian Literature)

Turtle Mountain Community College

Instructor
(Leg 202) Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure
Fall 2005.

Upper Sioux Community Tribal Court

Judicial Extern, Spring Semester 2004

PUBLICATIONS

The Bethel Therapeutic Court: A Study of How Therapeutic Courts Align With Yup’ik and Community Based Notions of Justice
American Indian Law RevieW, Fall 2005. With John M. Ptacin and Jeremy Worley.

The Rehnquist Court & Indigenous Rights: The Expedited Diminution of Native Powers of Governance
Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Summer 2003. With David Wilkins.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Are Lawyers Storytellers? (this is not the beginning of a lawyer joke): What the Story of the Political and Legal History of the Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa Indians Might Be Able To Tell Us
8th Annual CIC-AIS Graduate Student Conference. Iowa City, Iowa. April 13-14, 2007.

We the People…: The Birth of the Turtle Mountain Tribal Constitution and the Indian New Deal
Organization of American Historians, 2007 Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 29-April 1, 2007.

Making Claims, Making Government: How the Turtle Mountain Claim Against the United States Shaped its Tribal Government
American Society for Ethnohistory, 2006 Annual Meeting. Williamsburg, Virginia. November 1-5, 2006.

A Constitution Of, By, and For Nobody: The Anomaly of Tribal Constitutions as Studied Through the 1932 Turtle Mountain Tribal Constitution
7th Annual CIC-AIS Graduate Student Conference. Bloomington, Indiana. April 20-22, 2006.

Chair, On the Edge: Expression of Indigenous Nationhood and Borders
Paper, Tribal Borders, Nationhood Defined: The Turtle Mountain Reservation and its Constitution
American Society for Ethnohistory, 2005 Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, New Mexico. November 16-20, 2005.

The Indian Canons of Construction: Fragile Shields
MidAmerica American Studies Association Annual Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. April 15-16, 2005.

Canons of Construction: Federal Indian Law Revisited
6th Annual CIC-AIS Graduate Student Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. April 8-9, 2005

American Indian Tribes and the U.S. Supreme Court
American Political Science Association’s 99th Annual Meeting and Exhibition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 27-31, 2003 With David Wilkins.

AWARDS

University of North Dakota School of Law
2007-2008 - Northern Plains Indian Law Center Fellow

University of Arizona Law School
2006-2007 - Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program Fellowship
2005 Graduate Research Partnership Program Award (with Brenda Child)

University of Minnesota Law School
Dean’s List, 2003-2004 academic year
Dean’s List, 2002-2003 academic year
Royal Stone Scholarship, University of Minnesota Law School

University of Minnesota Graduate School
Turpie-Bowron Fellowship, , American Studies
Mulford Q. Sibley honorable mention senior paper award, American Studies