Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site / NPS.

Attorney, legal scholar, and author, Walter Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) will present at the Crow Luther Cultural Events Center (High Plains Theatre) in Eads, Colorado on Thursday, January 10 at 6 p.m. He will discuss his newest book “The Sea of Grass,” a novelized account of past generations of the Echo-Hawk family, and how the lives of people on the plains were shaped by the land, animals, plants, and culture. 

Mr. Echo-Hawk is a former staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, Colorado and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums. He was “The Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals” at the University of Hawaii in 2018 and has also written several books including The Sea of Grass (2018); In The Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights In Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2013); In The Courts of the Conqueror: The Ten Worst Indian Cases Ever Decided (2010); and the award-winning Battlefields and Burial Grounds (1994).  

Echo-Hawk’s presentation is part of a series of public sessions hosted by Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site for education on Native and Non-Native American perspectives of the historical context in which the Sand Creek Massacre took place. The education series of speakers, historians, and educators will be scheduled through March 2019 to present sessions that will address American history, tribal histories, and American Indian Law.