In the Light of Justice - Walter Echo

Walter Echo-Hawk is a lawyer, tribal judge, scholar and activist, with legal experience that includes cases involving Native American religious freedom, prisoner rights, water rights, treaty rights, and reburial/repatriation rights. A Native American rights attorney since 1973, he was instrumental in the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments (1994). Echo-Hawk has written extensively about the rise of modern Indian nations. He is the author of In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided and, most recently, In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America & the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.The 2014 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture

The Battle Ground Road drum group and Meskwaki Nation Dancers will perform at 6:30 p.m., preceding Walter Echo-Hawk's 7:00 p.m. talk. Iowa State University's ROTC Joint Color Guard will join members of the Robert Morgan Post 701 from Tama, Iowa, to present the colors at 6:50 pm.