Law professor building Native American program

Associated Press story by Jessie L. Bonner
July 19, 2009

MOSCOW, Idaho — Angelique EagleWoman remembers the moment when she decided she wanted to devote her life to law.

She was 8 and watching the television in her family's living room in 1978 when news broke that her uncle, a black man who had married into a Native American family and was beaten by five deputies when he went pay a speeding ticket, was awarded $75,000 in punitive damages.

"I knew I wanted to make my life about justice," said EagleWoman, who grew up in Kansas and lived on a reservation in South Dakota. Read More