“Bias destroys our communities,” said Blackfeet tribal member Lita Pepion, board member of Indian Peoples Action, in Butte, Montana. The justice-advocacy group was recently a plaintiff in federal court, with civil-rights attorney Lawrence Organ arguing on its behalf that the government should promise to preserve the hundreds of derogatory e-mails a Montana federal judge sent in the years before he retired in 2013. [Read more here.]
Source: Stephanie Woodard, Indian Country Today Media Network; 10.12.14
