Attorney Brett Shelton, Native American Rights Fund, will talk about intergenerational trauma incurred by past US forced boarding school policies. Donation request: $5-$15 sliding scale, to benefit Native American Rights Fund.

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Brett Lee Shelton, enrolled Oglala Sioux Tribe, is the staff attorney primarily responsible for the peacemaking project at the Native American Rights Fund. He developed his interest in peacemaking and other alternative dispute resolution while still in law school at Stanford. At that time, he took a Native American Common Law course, which included a unit on Navajo Peacemaking, and an innovative, year-long, highly participatory course in mediation. Professionally, he has pursued his interest in several ways: while a law clerk, he helped establish an alternative dispute resolution program at the San Mateo County Superior Court ( Redwood City, CA); he volunteered at the Boulder (Colorado) Community Mediation Services; and, he assisted the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court implement a mediation training program and an innovative juvenile sentencing diversion program focused on cultural revitalization for troubled youth. In addition to the Indigenous Peacemaking Initiative, his work at NARF includes boarding school healing project work, sacred places protection, and other religious freedom matters. He also has worked in private practice, served Indian Tribes as a policy analyst for the National Indian Health Board, organized grassroots efforts for international indigenous peoples in biotechnology evaluation, and assisted domestic violence victims in civil court on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Nebraska (his home reservation). He received his law degree from Stanford University and a Master of Arts from the University of Kansas.