Galanda Broadman Litigation Assistant Announcement

May 18, 2024 Update: This announcement has expired.

Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights firm with seven lawyers and offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington, and Bend, Oregon, seeks to add a litigation assistant to our growing team.

Galanda Broadman is an Indigenous owned firm dedicated to advancing tribal and tribal citizen legal rights and tribal business interests.  The firm represents tribal governments, businesses, and citizens in critical litigation, business and regulatory matters, especially in the areas of Treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, land rights, cultural property protection, taxation, commerce, gaming, serious/catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, disenrollment defense, and Indigenous human/civil rights. 

The litigation assistant primarily assists in Galanda Broadman’s federal court civil rights and wrongful death cases. That individual is involved with every step of the litigation process, from managing new client intake, to filing complaints in state and federal courts, to assisting with public information and discovery requests.

Multi-tasking; technology and research skills; critical and audacious thinking; strong communication; tremendous work ethic; tenacity; and sound ethics are required. 

Salary DOE. 

Galanda Broadman seeks a candidate with relevant experience in legal administrative work. This position could be adjusted for part time or full time. Work is primarily remote, with occasional in-person work required in Seattle.

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter tailored to this announcement, as well as a résumé, transcript, and list of at least three educational or professional references, to Alice Hall, the firm’s Office Manager, at alice@galandabroadman.com. 

Applications directed elsewhere will not be considered.

Galanda Broadman Indigenous Human Rights Fellowship Announcement

Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights firm with seven lawyers and offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington, and Bend, Oregon, seeks a rising second- or third-year law student to work as an Indigenous Human Rights Fellow during the fall 2024 or spring 2025 semesters.

Galanda Broadman is an Indigenous owned firm dedicated to advancing tribal and tribal citizen legal rights and tribal business interests.  The firm represents tribal governments, businesses, and citizens in critical litigation, business and regulatory matters, especially in the areas of Treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, land rights, cultural property protection, taxation, commerce, gaming, serious/catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, disenrollment defense, and Indigenous human/civil rights.

We seek Fellows who are deeply committed to representing Indigenous interests; curious and persistent in crafting creative legal strategies; and enthusiastic to dive into an enterprising & fast-moving practice.   We seek students who can commit from 15–40 hours per week for 8–12 weeks for credit or outside funding. We work with students to get class credit from their schools.

Fellows will work throughout all areas of our practice depending on their interests and on the firm’s needs. Fellows will get the chance to work with each member of our team. In the past, projects have included: researching and writing briefing for federal, state, and tribal court litigation; conducting written discovery; working with clients to identify civil rights claims; crafting legislative advocacy materials with Indigenous stakeholders; and developing longer-term research projects and novel strategies for clients. 

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter tailored to this announcement, as well as a résumé, writing sample, transcript, and list of at least three educational or professional references, to Alice Hall, the firm’s Office Manager, at alice@galandabroadman.com. 

Applications directed elsewhere will not be considered.

For more information about Galanda Broadman, visit galandabroadman.com.

Galanda Broadman Litigation & Tribal Associate Position Announcement

May 18, 2024 Update: This announcement has expired.

Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights firm with seven lawyers and offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington, and Bend, Oregon, seeks to add an experienced civil litigation associate who is also interested in practicing tribal law.

Galanda Broadman is an Indigenous owned firm dedicated to advancing tribal and tribal citizen legal rights and tribal business interests.  The firm represents tribal governments, businesses, and citizens in critical litigation, business and regulatory matters, especially in the areas of Treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, land rights, cultural property protection, taxation, commerce, gaming, serious/catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, disenrollment defense, and Indigenous human/civil rights.

The firm seeks a lawyer who are deeply committed to representing Indigenous interests, who is state bar licensed in Washington state or Oregon; and who has civil litigation or a judicial clerk experience.  The lawyer would help bring federal Section 1983 civil rights claims against local governments, federal claims for tribal governments, as well as serve tribal governments as general outside counsel. 

We prefer applicants with at least three years of experience but exceptions can be made for exceptional candidates.  Proven motion and civil rules practice, if not trial, experience, and the ability to self-direct are critical. Impeccable writing and research skills; critical and audacious thinking; strong oral advocacy; tremendous work ethic; tenacity; and sound ethics are required. 

Salary DOE. 

Qualified applicants should submit a cover letter tailored to this announcement, as well as a résumé, writing sample, transcript, and list of at least three educational or professional references, to Alice Hall, the firm’s Office Manager, at alice@galandabroadman.com. 

Applications directed elsewhere will not be considered.

Gabe Galanda: Inter-Tribal Kinship as a "Durable Source of Strength is Under Duress"

Gabe Galanda has published "Durability and Duress: Inter-Tribal Kinship and Indian Gaming Capitalism," at the invitation of the Arizona State University School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. 

An excerpt:

Kinship is an Indigenous cultural tradition. It is also a political practice.

Indigenous societies and nations withstood colonization for centuries by wielding the political power of kinship. Inter-Tribal kinship alliances prevented the total annihilation of Indigenous peoples during the colonial and early American eras and defeated threats to Tribal national existence in modern times. Indigenous peoples leveraged kinship first to withstand genocidal wars and territorial assaults and later, U.S. Congressional and Supreme Court attacks.

Today, Indigenous kinship and its inter-Tribal safety net are under duress. National Tribal political practices and federal policies catalyzed by gaming capitalism weaken historical inter-Tribal kinship alliances and jeopardize Tribal nationhood writ large. Tribal per-capitalism has transmuted certain Indigenous peoples into casino enterprises. While Tribal gaming politicians wield per capita dollars to sustain their political prominence, Tribal members clamor for the individual distribution of those monies instead of Indigenous community reinvestment and revitalization.

These intra-Tribal dynamics create a race to the bottom with Tribal gaming politicians seeking to increase unearned per capita income by building new casinos and related amenities in the ancestral homelands of others. Meanwhile, the Obama and Biden administrations’ laissez faire approach to the generation and use of Tribal gaming dollars contributes to the erosion of Indigenous kinship systems. These forces create inter-Tribal division and weaken time-honored kinship alliances.

Unless inter-Tribal territorial and relational balance are restored, the divisions will only broaden and deepen, rendering Tribal nations ill-prepared to defend or preempt the next existential attack.