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Thanksgiving is also a time to remember the deprivations and atrocities that occurred to Indians
This Thanksgiving week, Stephen L. Pevar reminds us that while we commemorate the Pilgrim’s feast in 1620 to thank Indians for their friendship, we also need to remember that the following three centuries were marked by increasingly punitive policies by governments towards them. He argues that while conditions for many tribes have improved in recent decades, conditions on most reservations are substandard and impoverished. He gives several ways that non-Indians can commemorate Thanksgiving in this light; by lobbying public schools and Congress, and donating to organizations that give economic assistance to Indians
American Indian treaties and the lower federal courts: A guide to treaty citations from opinions of the lower United States federal court system
Reconsidering the Tribal-State Compact Process
This essay evaluates the tribal‐state compact process, as one of several alternative, nonadversarial processes, warranting attention. It argues that, because of its binding character and relatively low cost (in contrast to litigation), and because it is based in the idea of tribes and states exhibiting mutual respect, the compact process is an advanced version of negotiation and bargaining that tribes and states should consider where appropriate
Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation
The Last Ice Age
A collection of five short stories that examine ideas of loss and transformation from a series of highly skewed and idiosyncratic points of view
Lawyering in the Field of Civil Liberties (2014-11-07)
STEPHEN PEVAR is a graduate of Princeton
University (1968) and the University of
Virginia School of Law (1971). From 1971
through 1974, Mr. Pevar was a staff attorney
with South Dakota Legal Services on the
Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. From
1976 to the present, he has been a National
Staff Counsel for the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Mr. Pevar has litigated some 200 federal
cases involving constitutional rights,
including cases in more than ten different
Federal District Courts, three different U.S.
Courts of Appeals, and one case in the U.S.
Supreme Court. The areas of his specialty
include Indian and tribal rights, prisoners’
rights, free speech of public employees, and
the separation of church and state.LAWYERING IN THE FIELD OF CIVIL LIBERTIES
A PRESENTATION BY STEPHEN L. PEVAR AN ATTORNEY WHO HAS FILED 200 CIVIL RIGHTS CASES IN FEDERAL COURT
AUTHOR and NATIONAL STAFF COUNSEL FOR THE ACLUMaster of Tribal Administration and Governance Program
UMD American Indian Studie