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Learning more about American Indian law.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Numerous law schools have American Indian law classes. Mine did not. I have wanted to learn more, including the law concerning treaty rights, land rights, gambling, and sacred medicine, and also about the past and current mistreatment and slaughter of Native Americans and efforts and accomplishments to reverse such mistreatment. I took a particularly greater interest in Native American issues from reading Dennis Banks's Ojibwa Warrior (written with Richard Erdoes), and then meeting him in 2006 at the conclusion of the Sacred Run, and again in 2008 near the end of the Longest Walk II. We are both friends of Jun Yasuda, who joined Dennis from California when he went "underground to the Onondaga Reservation in New York" after California's Jerry Brown -- who refused to extradite Dennis to South Dakota concerning criminal charges over the Wounded Knee event -- left the governor's office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).