Gabe Galanda joined Audra Wilson, the president and CEO of the Shriver Poverty Law Center, and Sybil Hadley, the General Counsel at the Southern Poverty Law Center, at the Seventh Annual C. Clyde Ferguson Symposium to discuss:
the complexities of economic support for legal representation and how that tends to manifest for all walks of life-- incarcerated individuals, marginalized communities, and those who need further support against the complex systems in our country that perpetuate poverty.
Gabe focused his remarks on disproportionate rates of Indigenous poverty, criminality, and incarceration and, therefore, the need for an Indigenous indigent right to counsel in Tribal Courts such as that guaranteed in non-tribal courts by the federal 6th Amendment. His slides are here.
Gabe Galanda is an Indigenous rights attorney and the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman in Seattle. He belongs to the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Peoples.
