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After graduation, Young worked as a lawyer with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2003 to 2006. [5] She worked on school desegregation issues, voter rights such as ensuring Choctaw tribe members received voting instructions in their native language, and was a delegate to Human Rights conventions on torture in Geneva, Switzerland.
Steven Robert Donziger (born September 14, 1961) [1] [2] is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. and other cases in which he represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who suffered environmental damage and health problems caused by oil drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador.
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Missouri" ... Sauk people; Shawnee This page was last edited on 22 July 2020, at 03:09 (UTC). ...
Clark graduated LLB from the University of Western Ontario in 1969, being called to the bar in 1971. He returned to higher education with an MA in North American constitutional history also from the UWO in 1987, [1] followed in 1990 by a PhD in comparative law from the Department of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law in the University of Aberdeen School of Law, Scotland. [2]
Indigenous people have often been erased from the country’s historical record — a survey from the National Congress of American Indians found that 87% of state history standards don’t ...
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]
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.