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I. J. Ringolsky: [13] First Jewish male to serve as the President of the Kansas City Bar Association (1940) [Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte Counties, Missouri] Fernando J. Gaitan Jr.: [14] First African American male corporate lawyer in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (upon working for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company)
In their own Siouan language, the Missouri call themselves Niúachi, also spelled Niutachi, meaning "People of the River Mouth." [4] The Osage called them the Waçux¢a, and the Quapaw called them the Wa-ju'-xd¢ǎ. [5] The state of Missouri and the Missouri River are named for the tribe.
Decisions of the Indian Claims Commission; Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA); South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, 476 U.S. 498 (1986): settled for $50,000,000 by the Catawba Indian Tribe of South Carolina Land Claims Settlement Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-116, 107 Stat 1118 (codified at 25 U.S.C. § 941)
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Missouri" ... Sauk people; Shawnee This page was last edited on 22 July 2020, at 03:09 (UTC). ...
Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States.Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as of the United States, and those nations are characterized under United States law as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that ...
The Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri was established by an 1815 treaty, and they relocated from Iowa and Illinois to northeastern Missouri. In 1824, they moved again to the Platte Valley. Sac leader, Black Hawk led his people in a war against the United States in 1832.
James Lawrence McDonald (c. 1801 — September 1831) was a member of the Choctaw Nation and the first Native leader of his generation to be trained in the American legal system. [1] Thus, he is known as the first Native American lawyer.
Sarah Deer (born November 9, 1972 [2]) is a Native American (Muscogee (Creek) Nation [1]) lawyer, and a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies and Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. [3] She was a 2014 MacArthur fellow and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2019. [1] [4] [5]