Wayne State University Law?School will present an in-person free screening of the PBS documentary “Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice” followed by a panel discussion on Wednesday, November 20, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Wayne Law’s Partrich Auditorium, 471 W. Palmer Ave. in Detroit.
“Warrior Lawyers” is a one-hour PBS documentary that is timely and relevant given the country's current reckoning with racial inequity and systemic racism. The panel after the film will feature the filmmaker, Audrey Geyer; Holly T. Bird, co-executive director of Title Track; and JoAnne Cook, appellate judge of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
The program focuses on the stories of Michigan Native American lawyers, Tribal judges, and their colleagues who work with Native Nations, their citizens, and mainstream institutions to achieve healing and Sacred Justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address, repair and resolve unique and complicated historical, governmental, legal, judicial and social welfare issues, which are most often rooted in discrimination, historical trauma and cultural destruction. Audience members will take a journey into past and present day Indian Country to learn of untold stories that shine a light on Native Americans rising up to create a new path for today and for the next Seven Generations.
For additional information about the film, visit www.warriorlawyers.org. Anyone with questions about the screening and panel discussion may email Shannon Gaffney at gv8357@wayne.edu.
“Warrior Lawyers” is a one-hour PBS documentary that is timely and relevant given the country's current reckoning with racial inequity and systemic racism. The panel after the film will feature the filmmaker, Audrey Geyer; Holly T. Bird, co-executive director of Title Track; and JoAnne Cook, appellate judge of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
The program focuses on the stories of Michigan Native American lawyers, Tribal judges, and their colleagues who work with Native Nations, their citizens, and mainstream institutions to achieve healing and Sacred Justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address, repair and resolve unique and complicated historical, governmental, legal, judicial and social welfare issues, which are most often rooted in discrimination, historical trauma and cultural destruction. Audience members will take a journey into past and present day Indian Country to learn of untold stories that shine a light on Native Americans rising up to create a new path for today and for the next Seven Generations.
For additional information about the film, visit www.warriorlawyers.org. Anyone with questions about the screening and panel discussion may email Shannon Gaffney at gv8357@wayne.edu.
