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on February 24, 2026

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FAMOUS DOCUMENT: " A Reflection on Sequoyah Rising by Steve Russell" by Jennifer Lee Lawson, MA

By Jennifer Lawson As a graduate student, I was interested in many things. I had become somewhat of an expert on Native Studies, but my interests were extremely broad and I was moving away from that. I knew Steve Russell from my undergraduate years. I corresponded with him about U.S./Native American issues. He gave me reading recommendations for my undergraduate thesis. I heard from Steve Russell as a graduate student when he emailed me saying he was working on a book and wanted me to look it over. That’s what we do. We do that kind of thing. It seemed normal, so I did. There wasn’t much to what he wrote, but I did recommend that he read Jeremy Waldron’s “Supersceding Historic Injustice.” That’s basically all I did. I forgot about it and did my other work. Later, Russell emailed me saying the book was published and that I was mentioned in it. One always wants to see how one’s intellectual help made a difference, so I bought the book and read it. I was horrified. In tha...

New Frontiers for Indigenous Issues (Master's Incomplete Draft Due to Severe Illness: 2009, University of North Florida) by Jennifer Lee Lawson, MA

New Frontiers for Indigenous Issues By Jennifer Lawson In 2008 Brazilian tribes made headlines throughout the United States in two news stories. One widely discussed story featured aerial photographs released by the Brazilian government of allegedly uncontacted tribes living in grass-roofed huts, wearing red body paint and wielding bows and arrows. The Brazilian government released these photographs along with a story about how loggers were illegally entering tribal territory damaging the environment creating conflict and endangering tribal people with very little immunity to easily transmittable illnesses. The second story was the result of a campaign by the United States-based missionary group youth with a mission to raise awareness of infanticide practiced by some Brazilian tribes and the Brazilian government’s unwillingness to put a stop to this practice. First Nations tribes in Canada garnered wide attention when on June 11 2008′ -Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper i...

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