Native American

Native American rights activists bring nationwide walk to Asheville

16 May 2012

ASHEVILLE — The Leonard Peltier Walk for Human Rights was going to walk right through Asheville until a last-minute change of plans landed them in Pritchard Park.

Minority legal association passed measure last year saying law schools should require documentation for Native ...

16 May 2012

A group of influential minority legal associations passed a resolution last year calling on law schools to require “sufficient documentation of Native American citizenship� to prevent “academic ethnic fraud� from law school applicants. The issue has become a heated topic in the Massachusetts Senate race, as Republicans have questioned why Harvard Law School at one time promoted Elizabeth Warren ...

Elizabeth Warren's Native American Story Won't Go Away

15 May 2012

Google Alerts didn't exist in 1997, but is it really possible Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren didn't know Harvard Law School was calling her the "first woman of color" it hired? That's how she was described in a Fordham Law Review article 15 years ago, Politico's Maggie Haberman reports. The article was specifically about female minorities, so it's not like if Warren happened ...