Michigan COA Case on ICWA

The details of the case are recounted here.

The case is here, and captioned Empson-LaViolette v. Crago, and involves Pokagon Band Potawatomi tribal members.

Pokagon Lawyer Becomes Director of Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

|Tribune reporter

A tribal lawyer turned academic is to take over this week as executive director of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, marking the first time in the Evanston institution’s 30-year-history that it will be led by a Native American.

John Low, 51, of Park Ridge, is familiar with the Mitchell, having been a curatorial assistant there a few years ago. He said he hopes to use that knowledge and his contacts in the Native American community to build on the museum’s strengths.

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