Longtime Native Voice for Women’s Rights, Deer, Speechless With Recent Honor

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Longtime Native Voice for Women’s Rights, Deer, Speechless With Recent Honor
by Mary Annette Pember
9/25/14

Sarah Deer recently had to update her resume. In her typically understated fashion, near the end of her many categories of accomplishments as a law professor at the William Mitchell College of Law she has included the following simple line, “MacArthur Fellowship, MacArthur Foundation (2014)”

As noted in an earlier ICTMN story, the no strings attached fellowship, often described as a “genius grant,” includes $625.000 paid over a period of five years.

Deer is 41 years old and a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She joins 20 other recipients of the prestigious fellowship presented by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Deer is a long time legal scholar and advocate and is best known for her work focusing attention on the pervasive inequalities of the law regarding sexual and domestic violence for Native American women living on reservations. She helped bring the issue to world attention, spearheading the 2007 Amnesty International report, Maze of Injustice. The report, according to the MacArthur website, “helped reframe the problem of sexual violence in Indian country as an international human rights issue.” ....

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/25/longtime-native-voice-womens-rights-deer-speechless-recent-honor-156990

[niyad]

1. it was thrilling to read about it.