Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice

The Center for Student Diversity, in collaboration with Strategic Cultural Partnerships and Student Accountability and Restorative Practices, hosts a panel discussion with Executive Producer, Audrey Geyer and Upper Mattaponi's Chief Justice, Melissa Holds the Enemy, detailing their experiences and reflections of Warrior Lawyers: Defenders of Sacred Justice. Warrior Lawyers is a one-hour PBS documentary that is particularly timely and relevant given our country's current reckoning with racial inequity and systemic racism. 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 Sacred Justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address 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. Come 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.

This event is open to the public. Doors open at 5pm, and the program will begin promptly at 5:30pm.