Pro Bono Representation for Indigenous Peoples
January 23, 2020
“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.” Iroquois Maxim Standing Bear was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. The significance of this symbol — a Native tribal member claiming space in the heart of the nation’s capital on behalf of his tribe and all Native people — cannot be overstated. The history of Native peoples in America has been fraught with conflict, broken treaties, and forced relocations — an experience familiar to Chief Standing Bear, whose tribe was forced by federal treaty to leave its homeland in 1876 to make room