Education:
BS 1970, Brigham Young University. JD 1973, University of Utah; postgraduate studies, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Law Practice:
Salt Lake City, 1975-80.
Experience:
General legal counsel, Shoshone-Bannock Indian tribes of Idaho, 1977-86; member, Idaho House of Representatives,1982-86; Elected Prosecuting Attorney, Bannock County, Idaho, 1986-90; Attorney General for State of Idaho, 1990-94. Joined J. Reuben Clark Law School in 1995.
Principal Research Interests:
Native American rights and Criminal Law
Classes Taught:
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Federal Indian Law
Publications:
The White Man Turned a Tame, Beautiful Land into the Wild West, an article in the High Country News, March 9, 1992.
Stewards of a Sacred Place - For Native Americans, Spirit and the Land Are One, article in Focus (a magazine published by Boise State University), spring edition 1992.
Remembering the Seventh Generation, remarks by Attorney General Larry EchoHawk, Democratic National Convention 1992, Official Proceedings, p. 284.
On Being Wise Stewards of the Sacred Land, Clark Memorandum (a publication of the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University), spring edition, 1993.
Idaho May Be Ready For a Full-Scale ADR Program, The Advocate (the official
publication of the Idaho Bar Association), August 1994.
Achieving and Preserving the Promise of America, BYU Devotional and Fireside Speeches, 1994-95.
Curing a Search Warrant That Fails to Particularly Describe the Place to be Searched, Idaho Law Review, 1998. This article was also reprinted in The Search and Seizure Law Report, in March 1999.
Factors Contributing to Juvenile Violence in Indian Communities, The BYU Journal of Public Law, 1998.
Is it Time for Idaho to Return Jurisdiction Over Indian Reservations?, The Advocate (official journal of the Idaho State Bar Association), December 1999.
Sagwitch, Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887, a book review published in the BYU Studies, fall edition, 2000.
Achieving Justice for Native Americans Will Require a Return to Our Point of Origin in Constitutional Law, a book review of "Tribes, Treaties and Constitutional Tribulations," authored by Vine Deloria, Jr. and David E. Wilkins, published in The Green Bag Law Journal, October 2000.
Idaho Indian Treaty Rights: Historical Roots and Modern Day Applications, The Advocate (official journal of the Idaho State Bar Association) October 2001.
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