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John Echohawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, was a co-founder of the Native American Rights Fund in 1970 and has been its Executive Director since 1977. The Native American Rights Fund has been involved in most of the major Indian rights litigation since 1970. He serves on many national boards and has received numerous service awards and other recognition for his leadership in the Indian law field. In 1992, he served on the Clinton-Gore transition team for the Department of the Interior and in 2008 he served on the Obama-Biden transition team for the Department of the Interior. B.A., University of New Mexico (1967); J.D., University of New Mexico (1970); admitted to practice law in Colorado.
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Native Ways FederationEstablished in 2006 by seven of the country's leading national American Indian nonprofits including the Association on American Indian Affairs, the Native Ways Federation is the only federation in the U.S. purposed to directly serve Native non-profits that assist indigenous peoples and communities in Indian Country.
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