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The Center for Student Diversity, in collaboration with Strategic Cultural Partnership and Student Accountability and Restorative Practices, presents, Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice, a film screening and panel discussion to honor and celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Scared Justice is a one-hour PBS documentary that focuses on the stories of Native American Lawyers, Tribal Judges and their colleagues who work with Native Nations, their citizens and mainstream institutions to achieve healing and Sacred Justice.

Following the film screening we invite participants to engage in a discussion with our stellar panel. Our panel members include: 

• Audrey Geyer, Founder and Executive Director of Visions who has produced two documentaries on contemporary Native American issues: “Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience” and “Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice.”
• Melissa Holds the Enemy, Chief Justice of the High Court of the Upper Mattaponi Tribe of King William, Virginia, and a citizen of the Crow Tribe of Crow Agency, Montana and a descendent of the Absentee Shawnee and Delaware tribal nations of Oklahoma.  
• Dr. Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, the Director of the Thomasina E. Jordan American Indian Resource Center and administrator of the interdisciplinary Native Studies minor at William & Mary. 
• Dr. Buck Woodard, cultural anthropologist specializing in historical and applied research with interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical writing and the ethnological study of Native North America.

All participants will be treated to reception featuring foods celebrating Indigenous heritage.

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Sponsored by: Center for Student Diversity

Contact

Monique Williams, mdwilliams@wm.edu

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