Incidentally, the name of Walter’s firm is Crowe & Dunlevy.
Walter Echohawk at Horizon Books (Traverse City) — Oct. 11, 2010
Incidentally, the name of Walter’s firm is Crowe & Dunlevy.
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Walter Echohawk’s Ten Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided Book Announcement
In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided
Book website here.
Press release here: InTheCourts_release.
Blurb:
The fate of Native Americans has been dependent in large part upon the recognition and enforcement of their legal, political, property, and cultural rights as indigenous peoples by American courts. Most people think that the goal of the judiciary, and especially the US Supreme Court, is to achieve universal notions of truth and justice. In this in-depth examination, however, Walter R. Echo-Hawk reveals the troubling fact that American law has rendered legal the destruction of Native Americans and their culture.
Echo-Hawk analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice and highlight the use of nefarious legal doctrines. He delves into the dark side of the courts, calling for a paradigm shift in American legal thinking. Each case study includes historical, contemporary, and political context from a Native American perspective, and the case’s legacy on Native America. In the Courts of the Conqueror is a comprehensive history of Indian Country, from a new and unique viewpoint. It is a vital contribution to American history.
News Coverage of the Native Arts Foundation & Walter Echohawk
From the Oregonian:
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Board Chair Walter Echo-Hawk.
The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, which will be based in Portland, had its historic launch last week, making it the first nonprofit in the nation devoted exclusively to funding Native American arts and culture causes.
The choice to base the foundation in Portland reflects the appeal to the rest of the country of Portland — even when it’s ailing economically — as well as this area’s many layers of Native American activity and culture.
The foundation is just emerging, but some members of the Native American arts community already are impressed.
“This is visionary,” says art dealer Cecily Quintana of Quintana Galleries, a family-owned gallery that has been involved with the Native American community for 37 years. “Everything about this is encouraging. Look at the board — it’s a nationally based one.”
The foundation’s six-member board includes chairman Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee), a lawyer; Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation), a poet; Letitia Chambers, a former U.S. representative to the United Nations General Assembly; and Elizabeth Woody (Navajo/Warm Springs/Yakama), a Portland visual artist and former director of Ecotrust’s Indigenous Leadership Program. Continue reading
NYTs: Walter Echohawk Helps to Found Native Arts Foundation
Here is a pdf of the NYTs article — walter-echohawk-native-arts-foundation
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