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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
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
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