The UW Madison's 16th Annual Coming Together of the Peoples Conference, organized by the Indigenous Law Students Association (ILSA), will be held Thursday through Saturday, February 7-9, 2002. The event will include a two-day conference, followed by a banquet featuring speakers Winona LaDuke, John Trudell and Kalyn Free. The final event will be Saturday's traditional pow-wow, to take place at the UW Fieldhouse, beginning at 1 p.m. and continuing until 10 p.m. All events except the banquet are open to the public. Conference panels include ?Reversing Doctrine,? on Thursday at the Pyle Center, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:15 to 4 p.m. Panelists will be Andy Huff from the Indian Law Resource Center, John Echohawk from the Native American Rights Fund, and Professor W. Lawrence Church from the UW Law School. Friday's panel, at the same times and place, is ?Peacekeepers? Mock Court,? a simulated peacekeepers? court session, using traditional Navajo methods for dispute resolution. Participants will be Phil Bluehouse, Ruth Alexis, Richard Paul, and Yona Myers. Conference attendance is free. Refreshments will be provided. On Thursday at 5:30 p.m., a traditional Feast will be held at the Pres House, 731 State Street, on the UW campus. There is no charge for the feast. On Friday at 7 p.m., the Banquet and Awards Presentation will be held at the Concourse Hotel, 1 West Dayton Street in Madison. Admittance to the Friday evening Banquet costs $25 for students and $30 for non-students. Winona LaDuke, vice presidential candidate and author of the novel Last Standing Woman, will be joined by poet and musician John Trudell and Kalyn Free, a District Attorney in Oklahoma, as the evening's speakers. The annual Wunk Sheek pow-wow at the Fieldhouse will conclude the weekend's activities, featuring host drums Tha Tribe and Jr. Deadgrass Society. At 5 p.m., a traditional Feast will be presented at no charge. Joining the Indigenous Law Students Association as sponsors of the event are the UW-Madison American Indian Studies Program, UW-Madison Dean of Students' Office, the Multicultural Council, Wisconsin State Bar Indian Law Section, UW Law School, Associated Students of Madison, Student Bar Association, Brown & La Counte, Caulum Law Office, Gardner & Jones Law Offices, and Von Briesen Purtell & Roper. For more information, contact James A. Washinawatok II, ILSA President, at jawashin@hotmail.com; Ruth Robarts, Assistant Dean for Students at the UW Law School, 608-262-8557; or Matthews Scott and Jessica Clark-Scott at 608-833-5126.

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