| G. William Rice |
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Full Vita |
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Associate Professor of Law
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Degrees Earned and Other Education:
| University of Oklahoma College of Law Norman, Oklahoma American Indian Law Review J.D. 1978 |
Lowell Technological Institute Lowell, Massachusetts 1973-1975 Health Physics M.S. Program Radiological Safety and Control |
Phillips University Enid, Oklahoma B.A. Chemistry 1973 |
Areas of Teaching Specialization:
Courses Regularly Taught:
Indian Gaming Law, Tribal Government,
Native American and Indigenous Rights, and Constitutional
Law.
Courses previously taught include: The basic course in Federal
Indian Law, the Indian Law Seminar, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, and Advanced Appellate Advocacy.
Co-Director: Native American Law Certificate Program, 1995 - 2000.
Director: LL.M. in Indian and Indigenous Law, 2000 - 2004.
Co-Director: Native American Law Center
2004 - present.
Professional Experience:
A. Teaching Positions
| 1995-Present University of Tulsa College of Law 3120 East 4th Place Tulsa, Oklahoma 73104 |
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa
College of Law. Courses taught include various advanced Indian Law courses including Indian Gaming, Tribal Government, Native American and Indigenous Rights, the Advanced Indian Law Seminars, LL.M. Thesis Seminar, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law. |
| Summer 1998, 2001 American Indian Law Center, Inc. 1117 N. Stanford Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Professor of Federal Indian Law for the Pre-Law Summer Institute (PLSI) for American Indian students beginning the study of law in the fall semester, 1998, 2001. |
| Spring 1995 and Spring 1996 Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York |
Adjunct Professor of Law at the Cornell Law School. The Federal Indian Law course was taught during the spring semester. |
| 1994-1995 University of North Dakota School of Law University of North Dakota Grand Forks, North Dakota |
Faculty member and first Director of the Northern Plains Tribal Judicial Training Institute for the University of North Dakota School of Law. |
| 1988-1994 Political Science Department College of Arts and Sciences University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma 73070 |
Member of the visiting faculty of the Political Science Department of the University of Oklahoma with the rank of Associate Professor, from 1988 through 1994. Courses taught include "Indians in the American Legal & Political System", "Tribal Government", and "American Government." |
| 1978-1979 Antioch School of Law Washington, D.C. |
Planned and conducted classroom instruction of Indian paralegal students in the fields of American Indian Property law, administrative and tribal court advocacy, American Indian probate law, and the Indian Child Welfare Act as a trial advocacy course. |
B. Other Professional Positions
| 1990 - 2001 United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians P.O. Box 746 Tahlequah, Oklahoma 74465-0746 |
Assistant Chief - 1999-2001. Second highest Tribal officer and member of the Tribal Council. Chief Judge of the Tribal Court 1990 - 1999. |
| 1988-1995 Rice & Bigler Route 2, Box 2391 Cushing, Oklahoma 74023 Representative Cases Include: Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac and Fox Nation, 508 U.S. 114 (1993). Bank of Oklahoma v. Muscogee (Creek) Nation, 972 F.2d 1166 (10th Cir. 1992). |
General law practice in the Cushing, Oklahoma firm of Rice & Bigler. The firm served as general or special counsel for several Indian Tribes and organizations. The practice consists almost exclusively of federal and tribal Indian law, including federal, tribal, and state court litigation, tribal business and economic development matters, and assisting tribal elected leaders with tribal governmental planning and relationships with federal, state, and other tribal officials. |
| 1986-Present Citizen Potawatomi Nation Shawnee, Oklahoma |
Selected and confirmed by popular vote as the first modern day constitutional Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Presently serves in this capacity. |
| 1985-1995; 1996-2000 Sac and Fox Nation Stroud, Oklahoma |
Attorney General for the Sac and Fox Nation since the re-establishment of their Tribal Court System in 1985 through 1995, and 1996-2000. |
| 1979-1988 G. William Rice, Attorney at Law Pipestem and Rice, Attorneys at Law Norman, Oklahoma 73069 |
General law practice in Norman, Oklahoma from 1979 until his relocation to Cushing, Oklahoma in August of 1988. Professor Rice has represented Indian Tribes and organizations since his admission to the Bar in 1979. |
| 1990-1992 United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma Tahlequah, Oklahoma |
Chairman of the Board of the Keetoowah Tribal Loan Fund. |
| 1987-1988 Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Shawnee, Oklahoma |
Appointed and served as a Commissioner of the Absentee Shawnee Business Development Commission. |
| 1985-1987 Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma Carnegie, Oklahoma |
Member of the Kiowa Tribal Tax Commission from 1985 through 1987. |
| 1981-1982 Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Corporation (OILS) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Member of the Board of Directors on behalf of the Anadarko Area Office Court of Indian Offenses Bar Association. |
| 1979-1983 & 1986-1988 Court of Indian Offenses Bar Association Anadarko Area Office, BIA, DOI. |
First President and Executive Director of the Bar Association of the Anadarko Area Office Court of Indian Offenses (Department of the Interior). |
| 1980-1981 Office of the Prosecutor Court of Indian Offenses, AAO, BIA. |
As first assistant prosecutor, duties included supervision of the Shawnee Agency Prosecutor's office as well as consulting and back-up duties at three other Indian agencies within the Anadarko Area Office jurisdiction. |
| 1977-1981 Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Consultant duties included the development of legal memorandums and various manuscripts for the Commission and various Indian tribes in Oklahoma. |
| 1977 Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Law clerk duties included review of criminal cases appealed to Oklahoma's court of last resort in criminal cases, legal research and case preparation under the direction of the Court. |
C: Non-legal Experience
| 1975-1976 Boston Indian Council, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts |
Began as a job developer under CETA Title III Manpower Project. Promoted to deputy director of the corporation and then to acting executive director. Duties included planning and implementation of the comprehensive corporate management policy and revision of the existing organizational structure. Resigned to begin law school. |
Bar and Professional Memberships:
| Supreme Court of the United States (1989) | Sac and Fox Nation Supreme Court (1985) |
| United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit (1982) | Citizen Band Potawatomi Supreme Court (1986) |
| United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit (1986) | Muscogee (Creek) Nation Supreme Court (1989) |
| United States District Court, for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (1984) | Cheyenne-Arapaho Bar Association (thru the Court of Indian Offenses). |
| United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (1981) | Court of Indian Appeals/Court of Indian Offenses, Anadarko Area Office Jurisdiction, BIA. (1979) |
| United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma (1981) | Native American Bar Association |
| Federal Bar Association | Oklahoma Indian Bar Association |
| Oklahoma Supreme Court (1979) | American Bar Association |
Selected Honors and Awards:
- American Indian Law Review, Editor, Article and Book Review Editor, Recent Federal Developments Editor. University of Oklahoma College of Law.
- Dean's Honor Roll, University of Oklahoma College of Law.
- National Conference of Teaching Professional Responsibility and Student Writing Competition, University of Detroit School of Law. Topic (1977): The Adversary System, Mercenary or Moral? Second Place Winner (with Kayla Bower Muse).
- American Indian Law Students Association, President. University of Oklahoma College of Law.
- Final Round Judge, National Native American Law Students Association, Inc., Annual Moot Court Competition at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. (1993).
- Student Board of Governors, Class Representative. University of Oklahoma College of Law.
- Dannenburg Memorial Scholarship, University of Oklahoma College of Law.
- Martin Luther King Teaching Fellowship, Lowell Technological Institute.
- Phillips University Scholarship, Phillips University.
- Phi Delta Phi Honorary Legal Fraternity, Holmes Inn. University of Oklahoma College of Law.
- Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Member, University of Oklahoma.
- Honorary Mayor-President, City of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge (1987).
- University of Tulsa College of Law Faculty Scholarship Award (2007-08) for contributions to Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2006) (co-award with other TU faculty contributors: Vicki Limas, Valerie Phillips, Judith Royster, Melissa Tatum).
Selected Publications and Presentations Outline:
A. Publications in Law Reviews and Journals
| Teaching Decolonization: Reacquisition of Indian Lands Within and Without the Box – an Essay, 82 N.D. L. Rev. 811 (2006) (Paper presented at the Conference entitled: The Pedagogy of American Indian Law, October 2006.) | |
| Federal Indian Law Cases in the Supreme Court's 2004-2005 Term, 41 Tulsa L. Rev. 341 (Symposium: 2004-2005 Supreme Court Review ) (Winter 2005). | G. William Rice, C.J., Johnson v. M'intosh Reargument: Joshua Johnson & Thomas J. Graham's Lessee, Plaintiff, v. William M'Intosh, Defendant: No. 99-01, 9 Kan. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 889, 192 (2000). |
| Of Cold Steel and Blueprints: Musings of an Old Country Lawyer on Crime, Jurisprudence, and The Tribal Attorney's Role in Developing Tribal Sovereignty,7 Kan.J.L.Pub.Pol.31 (Winter, 1997) | There and Back Again -- An Indian Hobbit's Holiday: Indians Teaching Indian Law, 26 New Mexico Law Review 169 ( 1996) |
| Employment in Indian Country: Considerations Respecting Tribal Regulation of the Employer-Employee Relationship, 72 N.Dak.L.Rev. 267 (1996) | The Journey from Ex Parte Crow Dog to Littlechief: A Survey of Tribal Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction in Western Oklahoma. (With F. Browning Pipestem.) 6 American Indian Law Review 1 (1979). |
| The Mythology of the Oklahoma Indians: A Survey of the Legal Status of Indian Tribes in Oklahoma. (With F. Browning Pipestem.) 6 American Indian Law Review 259 (1979) | 25 U.S.C. §71: The End of Indian Sovereignty or a Self-limitation of Contractual Ability? 5 American Indian Law Review 239 (1977). |
| Professor Rice has authored and edited many constitutions, federal charters, ordinances, complete law and order codes, and judicial opinions for various tribes which are too numerous to separately list. | |
B. Books and Book Chapters
| Tribal Governmental Gaming Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2006). | Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law. (Lexis/Nexis, 2006) (Contributing author for revision of Felix Cohen's 1942 edition). |
| Handbook of Federal Indian Law. (1982, Michie Bobbs-Merrill) (Contributing author for revision of Felix Cohen's 1942 edition). | Materials on the Impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act in Nebraska. (280 pp., Indian Legal Resource Center, Inc. 1980). |
| Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook for Tribes in Oklahoma. (262 pp., Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission, 1980). | Oklahoma Indian Law. (149 pp., Indian Legal Resource Center, Inc., 1980). |
| Indian Children, State Laws, and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. (204 pp., Indian Legal Resource Center, Inc. 1980). | Cases and Materials on the Impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act in Oklahoma. (Indian Legal Resource Center, Inc., 1980). |
| Court Rules of the Court of Indian Offenses. (111 pp., Bureau of Indian Affairs, Anadarko Area Office, 1979). | Cases and Material on Indian Property Law. (612 pp., Antioch School of Law, 1978). |
C. Professional Presentations and Lectures
| 2007. Conducted a Tribal Leader's Workshop at TU Law School concerning the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, and other issues of concern to tribal leaders. |
| 2007. Evergreen State College Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute, National Congress of American Indians' Special Committee on Indigenous Nations Relationships, and the Lummi Indian Nation. Presentation on "Indigenous Nation's Relationships" at a workshop conducted on a proposed “Treaty of Indigenous Nations” attended by representatives of certain Indigenous Peoples located in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia. |
| 2007. Muscogee (Creek) Nation District Court. Presentation at the annual "Doing Business in Indian Country" Conference: Using Tribal IRA Charters in the Land Acquisition Process." |
| 2007. University of Arkansas - Fayetteville School of Law. Faculty Enrichment presentation: "Tribal Trust Land Acquisition Through the Indian Reorganization Act." |
| 2006. Hamline University School of Law. Inaugural Lecture for the International Indigenous Forum: Reacquisition of Tribal Land - Reversing Colonialism. |
| 2006. University of North Dakota School of Law. Presented a Paper entitled: "Teaching Decolonization: Reacquisition of Indian Lands Within and Without the Box – an Essay" at the Conference entitled: The Pedagogy of American Indian Law. |
| 2006. Presentation at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation CLE on “Doing Business in Indian Country.” |
| 2005. Presented a Paper at the 2004-2005 Supreme Court Review, University of Tulsa (Paper Title: Federal Indian Law Cases in the Supreme Courts 2004 Term) |
| 2005. Presentation at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation CLE on “Doing Business in Indian Country.” |
| 2005. Served as the “Distinguished Commentator” for the Tribal Law and Government Conference 2005, Celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of the Tribal Law and Government Center, at the University of Kansas School of Law. (Provided commentary on the history of the Conference, and on the various papers presented.) |
| 2005. Native Nation's Law Symposium, “Tribal and State Court Relationships,” sponsored by the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and several other tribes in Kansas. (Topic: Multi-jurisdictional Issues Involving Tribal Courts.) |
| 2005. Attended United Nation’s Working Group on Indigenous Populations meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 2005. Panel Presentation, Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Sovereignty Symposium. (Panel Topic: International Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples.) |
| 2005. Commentator on a paper: “Labor Relations and Tribal Self-Governance”by Professor Wenona T. Singel at the University of North Dakota Indian Law Conference. |
| 2004. Attended the United Nations’ Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” on behalf of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. |
| 2004. Presentation at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation CLE on “Doing Business in Indian Country.” |
| 2004. Panel Presentation, Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Sovereignty Symposium. (Panel Topic: International Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples.) |
| 2003. Presentation at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation CLE on “Doing Business in Indian Country.” |
| 2003. Panel Presentation, Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Sovereignty Symposium. (Panel Topic: International Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples.) |
| 2003. Served one year term on the Enforcement Subcommittee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (NEJAC). |
| 2002. Presentation at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation CLE on “Doing Business in Indian Country.” |
| 2002. Panel Presentation, Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Sovereignty Symposium. (Panel Topic: International Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples.) |
| 2001. Presentation at the Muscogee (Creek) Nation CLE on “Doing Business in Indian Country.” |
| 2001. Panel Presentation, Oklahoma Supreme Court’s Sovereignty Symposium. (Panel Topic: International Issues Affecting Indigenous Peoples.) |
| 2000. University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School. Conference Panel Speaker, Where has Indian Law Been and Where is it Going? |
| 2000. University of Paris - Denis Diderot. Guest Lecture: Indian Nations: The Future of Tribal Autonomy. |
| 2000. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Workshop Speaker, Tribal Self-Governance. |
| 2000. University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Tribal Law & Governance Conference, Acted as Chief Justice of the Indian Nation’s Supreme Court for re-argument of Johnson v. McIntosh. G. William Rice, C.J., Johnson v. M'intosh Reargument: Joshua Johnson & Thomas J. Graham's Lessee, Plaintiff, v. William M'Intosh, Defendant: No. 99-01, 9 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 889, 192 (2000). |
| 2000. United Nations. First International Workshop on Indigenous Children and Youth, Panelist, Indian Children and American Law. |
| 2000. United Nations. Attended July meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations as an official representative of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox Nation. |
| 2000. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. Panelist, International Law in the Indian Country. |
| 2000. Northeastern Oklahoma State University. Conference Panel Speaker, Rights of Tribal Self-Government. |
| 2000. Federal Indian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Panelist, Reorganizing Tribal Government. |
| 1999. University of Wisconsin - Madison Law School. Keynote speaker for Indian Law Conference. |
| 1999. University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Summer Faculty for The Indian Law Summer Institute for American Indian Tribal Leadership. |
| 1999. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Conference Panel Speaker, Imagining the Cherokee People in the Year 3000. |
| 1999. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. Panelist, International Law panel. |
| 1999. Northeastern Oklahoma University. Conference Panel Speaker, Tar Creek Superfund site. |
| 1998. University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Summer Faculty for The Indian Law Summer Institute for American Indian Tribal Leadership. |
| 1998. University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Tribal Law & Governance Conference, Reargued Cherokee Nation v. Georgia on behalf of the Cherokee Nation. Reported at, Robert Yazzie, CJ., The Cherokee Nation of Indians, et al., v. Georgia, 8 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 159 (Winter, 1999). |
| 1998. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. Moderator/ Presenter: Federal/Tribal/State Judges Conference Jurisdiction in Indian Country & Mod. Re-argument of Martinez v. Santa Clara Pueblo. |
| 1997. University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Tribal Law & Governance Conference, Paper Presented: Of Cold Steel and Blueprints: Musings of an Old Country Lawyer on Crime, Jurisprudence, and The Tribal Attorney's Role in Developing Tribal Sovereignty, 7 Kan.J.L.Pub.Pol.31 (Winter, 1997). |
| 1997. University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas. Summer Faculty for The Indian Law Summer Institute for American Indian Tribal Leadership. |
| 1997. UCLA School of Law. Conference "Indian Gaming: Who Wins?" Conference Panel Speaker, Law Enforcement and Labor Relations in Indian Gaming. |
| 1997. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. The Use of Tribal Custom and Legal Tradition in a Modern Setting; |
| 1997. National Association of Tribal Court Personnel. Speaker on "Cultural Diversity" and "Inter-cultural Communication" at the NATCP National Conference, Orlando, Florida. |
| 1997. Federal Indian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Panel Presentation, Tribal/State Conflicts on Taxation in Indian Country. |
| 1996. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Conference Panel Speaker, Reviving Tribal Tradition and Custom through the use of Tribal law. |
| 1996. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Conference Panel Speaker, The Role of the Tribal Court in Cultural Preservation. |
| 1996. Oklahoma Native Language Use Conference. Speaker on "Drafting Tribal Cultural Codes" at a national Language Use Conference "Sharing Our Survival." |
| 1996. Cornell University Hotel School, Ithaca, New York: Guest Lecturer: Native American Gambling. |
| 1995. University of New Mexico School of Law. Conference Moderator for the Conference on Teaching Indian Law and Indian Law Clinics sponsored by the University of New Mexico School of Law, the Southwest Indian Law Clinic, and others. Presented the paper: There and Back Again -- An Indian Hobbit's Holiday: Indians Teaching Indian Law, 26 New Mexico Law Review 169 ( 1996). |
| 1995. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Presentation on the ethical and practical problems of small governmental entities during their annual conference on the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians’ proposed relocation to Arkansas. |
| 1995. Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians Tribal Court and Tribal Council. Workshop presenter regarding tribal civil and criminal jurisdiction and the structure of tribal governmental entities. |
| 1995. Comanche Tribal Children’s Court . Workshop presenter for Comanche Tribal Children’s Court Judges and staff regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act and tribal court jurisdiction. |
| 1994. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Special Lecture/Presentation to the wife of Vice-President Cardenas of Bolivia regarding Indian legal rights and status in the United States during her diplomatic tour. |
| 1994. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. The Future of Indian Law; |
| 1994. Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York. Guest Lecture: The Future of Indian Law. |
| 1993. The Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium. Income and Personal Property Taxation of Indians and Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac and Fox Nation, 113 S. Ct. 1985 (1993). |
| 1993. Federal Indian Bar Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac and Fox Nation. |
- Summer 1996: Identification and Evaluation of Federal legal impediments to the coming Renaissance of traditional tribal dispute resolution systems. Funded by the University of Tulsa Faculty Development Program.
- Summer 1999: Development of a program for the LL.M. degree in American Indian and Indigenous Law. Funded by the University of Tulsa College of Law Faculty Summer Research Program.
Community Service Activities:
- Ongoing since 1986: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potowatomi Nation.
- Ongoing since 1998: Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the Sac and Fox of Kansas.
- 1999-2002: Assistant Chief, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma.
- 1995: Member, North Dakota Supreme Court's Committee on State-Tribal Relations.
- Winter 1995-1996. Drafting of By-Laws for Board of Directors of the Tri-City Volunteer Fire Department, Cumberland, Marshall County, Oklahoma.
- Winter 1995-1996. Elected as Chair-elect of the AALS Section on Native American Rights for 1996-1997. Chair of the Section (1997-1998.)
- July 1996. Motivational Speaker/University of Tulsa Law School recruiting trip to speak with Indian students in the Pre-Law Summer Institute class of the American Indian Law Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Summer 1996. Appointed Judge for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma by the Tribal Council.
University of Tulsa Service Activities:
- Faculty Senate Library Committee, Member 1995-2000.
- Law School: Academic Status and Student Affairs Committee, Member 1995-99.
- Law School: Ad Hoc Committee on Student Retention, Member 1996-97.
- Law School: Ad Hoc Computer Committee, Member 1995-1998.
Member: United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
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