Philip S. (Sam) Deloria is a member of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Standing Rock Sioux TribeTestimony 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 Americans in the United States, Native American politics. He is of Yankton Dakota descent. Deloria attended Yale University as an undergraduate and for law school. For 35 years, he served as the Director of the American Indian Law Center, 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 Secretary-General of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples and was one of the founders of the Commission on State-Tribal Relations.AIGCS staff article
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