Alt Legal WebinarTribe and True: Strategies for serving Native American trademark clients
Alt Legal Team | October 02, 2024
When helping Tribal Nations and Native entrepreneurs with their trademarks, it’s crucial to understand tribal law and the unique issues that come with it. Even if you don’t work with Native clients, being aware of tribal law and protections can also help your clients avoid lawsuits for claims under the Indian Arts and Craft Act or even trademark refusal notices for marks that falsely suggest a connection to a Native American tribe.
Join Alt Legal for a webinar on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 4:00pm (ET) where Carrie Frias and Samantha Wauls will guide you through the basics of Tribal Law and how it intersects with trademarks. Topics will include:
- A brief history of the theft of Native land, resources, culture, and IP
- An introduction to the Tribal Insignia Database
- Tips for working with Tribal nations and Native entrepreneurs
- An overview of the appropriation of Native terms and culture
- Examples of successful partnerships between tribes and corporations
- Suggestions for how tribal law can protect cultural property
Everyone who’s registered for this webinar will receive an email with a link to the recording.
This webinar is pending CLE approval for 1 hour in 60-minute states and up to 1.12 hours in 50-minute states. For more information about CLE credit for Alt Legal events, including whether your state qualifies, check out this page: https://www.altlegal.com/cle-information/
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Speakers
Carrie Frias
, Managing Partner of Frias Indian Law
Carrie A. Frias is the managing partner of Frias Indian Law & Policy, LLC. Carrie has been working as an attorney for over fourteen (14) years. Her current practice focuses on Indian law, trademarks, copyrights, and issues of tribal jurisdiction. Recently, Carrie served as General Counsel for the Indian Affairs Department for the State of New Mexico. Previously, Carrie was Chief General Counsel for the Pueblo of Pojoaque where she was second chair in the Pueblo’s bad faith litigation against the State of New Mexico in federal court. Carrie also worked as an Associate for Anderson Indian Law. At Anderson Indian Law, Carrie lobbied on behalf of tribes in Washington D.C., and assisted in passing the tribal provisions in the VAWA Reauthorization which returned some criminal jurisdiction to tribes to prosecute domestic violence crimes on their reservations. Before relocating to Washington D.C., Carrie served as a prosecutor at the Hopi Tribe and the Pueblo of Laguna. Carrie also worked as a public defender and prosecutor for the State of New Mexico. She is passionate about defending the rights of Native women and children who are victims of crime.
Samantha Wauls
, Law Fellow at NBCUniversal
Samantha T. Wauls (Lakota/Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) is a Motion Picture Association (MPA) Law Fellow, currently working at NBCUniversal. As a Law Fellow, Samantha works on a variety of copyright and trademark issues that often arise in the film, television, and streaming industry and, previously, worked with the MPA’s law and policy team, performing extensive legal research on anticounterfeiting and antipiracy strategies to address large-scale copyright infringement. Prior to law school, Samantha was a consultant for the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department to help implement the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women’s (MMIW) Task Force Act. She also worked as a Project Manager for the National Center for Victims of Crime, where she managed a DOJ-funded project to build a web-based resource tool to connect American Indians and Alaska Native survivors of crime and abuse to culturally responsive services. She was also a teacher for her tribal community for two years.