Trailblazing Native American attorney John E. Echohawk (Pawnee Nation) was honored with the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) on August 5 at ABA Annual Meeting in Denver. The award was established to honor the impact and legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights lawyer, and the court’s first Black justice. As an attorney, Marshall won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, creating equal access to public education and desegregating law schools by removing laws and policies that allowed discrimination to persist in American society.
Raymond Cross argued twice before the U.S. Supreme Court in seeking just damages for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara from Garrison Dam, which flooded the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Raymond Cross argued twice before the U.S. Supreme Court in seeking just damages for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara from Garrison Dam, which flooded the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Raymond Cross argued twice before the U.S. Supreme Court in seeking just damages for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara from Garrison Dam, which flooded the Fort Berthold Reservation.