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Trial attorney/Trial Consultant
.Political
campaign consultant for state and federal races.
Currently Justice of the Rosebud
Sioux Tribe Supreme Court.
Member of South
Dakota Advisory Committee to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Adjunct Faculty
Member at Black Hills State University (Sociology & American
Indian Studies), South Dakota State University (Ph.D. Program),
and Oglala Lakota College (Graduate Program in Lakota
Leadership)
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Charles Abourezk
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Books
"The
Fragmented Society" currently being written. "This book is a
nonfiction work about the polarization and transformation of
American society since the Reagan presidency, and the necessity
of a return to a more socioeconomically-integrated and
empathetic society, which has always been the necessary
precondition to our periods of national progress and optimism."
"The
Last Colonies: America's Indian Reservations." |
Articles
"Health Care Crisis
in Indian Country," (soon to be published).
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Films, Publications
and Articles |
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Films
A Tattoo On My
Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973,
Copyright 2004 by Badlands Films, Inc. (Co-Producer,
Co-Director, and Co-Writer, with Brett Lawlor) 1 hour
documentary currently airing on American Public Television
stations around country. A Badlands Film Production.
Warriors Of Wounded Knee
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Film Baby.com
Directed two documentaries including; "It Can Happen to
Anyone: AIDS on Indian Reservations,"
Copyright 1989 by Charles Abourezk (Producer, Writer, and
Director)
AIDS on Indian Reservations, and a documentary for NBC entitled
"Reservation Life".
Publications
"Unpopular Clients, Unpopular
Causes" ABA’s GP Solo magazine, Jan./Feb. 2004.
"Restoring Democracy to America,"
The Warrior magazine, Fall 2003.
"Reimbursing the U.S. Government
Upon Recovery From Third Party Tortfeasors," Published May/June
2003, The Barrister, SDTLA.
"Constructing Reality in the Court
Room: Narrative, Emotions, and Multi-Dimensional Storytelling,"
Published 2001, and distributed to students and alumni of Gerry
Spence’s Trial Lawyers College.
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"Group Formation in Jury Selection."
Published 2000, and distributed to students and alumni of Gerry
Spence’s Trial Lawyers College.
"The Use of Psychodrama in
Depositions, Direct and Cross-Examination." Published 1999,
The Warrior magazine. Also, distributed to students and
alumni of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College.
"From a Lawyer's Heart, a Pulse of
Poetry: REVIEW OF Snaps: Poetry and Prose From A Family
Album." 41 S.D. L. Rev. 624 (1996); Charles Abourezk.
Articles
"The Use of Psychodrama in Depositions, Direct and Cross-Examination"
(pdf format)
"Constructing Reality 2001"(word
format)
"Report to the Dean of the
University of South Dakota School of Law: Native Americans and
the University of South Dakota School of Law" Report compiled
and written by Charles Abourezk, with Frank Pommersheim [and]
John Davidson. Publisher: Vermillion, S.D.: University of
South Dakota School of Law, 1991.
"Alternative Dispute Resolution in
South Dakota's Tribal-State Conflict: Obstacles and
Possibilities" Publisher: Vermillion, S.D.: University of
South Dakota School of Law], 1990 |
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Professional
Experience |
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Filmmaker/Attorney/Writer
"Charles
Abourezk Presents ..." Concert Promotion Company, Rapid City,
South Dakota
Charles Abourezk Consulting - Trial and Group Dynamics Training
Consultant
Badlands Films
President & Shareholder with Brett Lawlor, Rapid City, South
Dakota
Abourezk Law Firm
Partner & Attorney, Rapid City, South Dakota
.Former
contributing editor of Native Nations magazine (New
York)
.Former
Minority Affairs Producer for South Dakota Public Television and
on-air host of "Four Directions."
Former director,
co-producer and on-air host of "First Person Radio," a weekly
national radio news magazine, a production of Migizi
Communications, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
.Co-founder
and first news director/Assistant Programming Director of KILI
Radio on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
.Former
editor of Oyate Wicaho newspaper on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation.
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Brett Lawlor and Charles Abourezk
.Former
editor of the Volante newspaper, University of South
Dakota.
.Founding
President and former Bar Commissioner, of the Sicangu Oyate
(Rosebud Sioux) Bar Association 1994-95
Trial consultant
.Political
campaign consultant for state and federal races.
Retired Justice of the Oglala
Sioux Nation Supreme Court.
.1998-2005, Board member/faculty
member at Gerry
Spence Trial Lawyers College, Dubois, Wyoming.
Permanent Representative to the
UN Commission on Human Rights for the International Indian
Treaty Council, 1979-1983. |
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Biography |
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Education
University Of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Professional
Major: Law School
1985 to 1992
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD
Graduated: N/A
Major: Counseling
1999 to Present
University Of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD
Graduated: 1986
Degree: BA Political Science & Mass Communications |
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