Walter Echo-Hawk presents ‘The Need for an American Land Ethic’

About the event

Walter Echo-Hawk discusses the need for an American land and sea ethic as a necessary foundation for addressing the global environmental crisis and the role of indigenous peoples in helping nations form environmental ethics.

Echo-Hawk is a Native American attorney, tribal judge, author, activist, and law professor. He represents Indian tribes on important legal issues, such as treaty rights, water rights, religious freedom, prisoner rights, and repatriation rights.

He will discuss and sign his new book, “In The Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America & the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 7:00 p.m. in the CUB Auditorium.

The events are sponsored by the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service the and Plateau Center for Native American Programs at WSU.