Philip S. (Sam) Deloria is a member of the

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Standing Rock Reservation ( lkt, Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ) lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic " Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaks ...

Testimony of Philip S. Deloria on S. 2097.
''U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.'' 15 July 1998 (retrieved 12 Nov 2009) and active in Native American politics. He is of Yankton Dakota descent. Deloria attended

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as an undergraduate and for law school. For 35 years, he served as the Director of the

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, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also served as the director of the American Indian Graduate Center in Albuquerque until 2015. In addition to his law work, Deloria was a founder and first

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of the

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and was one of the founders of the Commission on State-Tribal Relations.AIGCS staff article
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