According to Carole Goldberg, a UCLA law professor and head of the advisory board that will administer the donation, tribal money is "filling a gap or a vacuum" by creating new courses in tribal law. That gift was followed recently by a $4 million donation from the tribe to UCLA Law School to establish a new center that will develop courses on issues of importance to California tribes. Last year, for example, the Oneida Indian Nation in upstate New York endowed a chair at Harvard Law School with a $3 million gift, while the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, operators of a San Bernardino-area casino, gave $3 million to Cal State San Bernardino, which then named its student union for a leader from the tribe's past. But those practices have also raised questions about the tribes' motives and the scholarly integrity of courses being offered, the Los Angeles Times reports. In recent years, Indian tribes that operate casinos have given millions in gifts to prestigious universities for the study of issues important to Native Americans.
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