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80 Mont. L. Rev. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/montlr80 and id is 1 raw text is: KEYNOTE THE RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW FOR AMERICAN INDIANS: THE PROCESS AND WHY IT MATTERS Matthew L.M. Fletcher* I'm here to talk about the Restatement of Indian Law or, as it is called currently, the Restatement of the Law of American Indians.I My lovely wife, Wenona Singel,2 and I are co-Reporters along with a good friend of ours named Kaighn Smith.3 This project has been ongoing since at least 2012, so it's been going on for a long time and we're a few years away from completion-assuming we get that far. I'm going to talk a little bit about what restatements are, what the process is like, and I'm going to do so in a way that I hope is not ridiculously boring. It is an incredibly sober and important activity, so to begin let me tell you my personal favorite story about this process. Years ago, we had an important piece, a portion of chapter one, for- mally approved by the Council of the American Law Institute, or ALI.4 The ALI's Council-I jokingly refer to them as kind of like the Illuminati of the law. They sit in a dark room, just like this one, and there cannot be more than 40 of them. I wish they would come in wearing hoods and holding little candles. Anyway, you know how you feel like when you get off a * Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State Uni- versity College of Law. 1. Am. Law Inst., Restatement of the Law: The Law of American Indians, ALI.ORG, https://perma .cc/WP9A-92AY; RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF AMERICAN INDIANS (AM. LAW INST., Tentative Draft No. 2, 2018). 2. Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law. 3. Attorney at Drummond Woodsum, Portland, Maine. 4. RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF AMERICAN INDIANS, INTRO. n. (AM. LAW INST., Tentative Draft No. 1, 2015) [hereinafter RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW OF AMERICAN INDIANS, Draft 2015].

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