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Objectives	Engage Br. Finney D Expedition Learning Guide, Sculptor, and Story Teller
Work Experience: Educator	2004-2005 Guest Lecturer at Upper Iowa University in African-American Studies, topic: Evict the Indians and Shelter the Freedom Seekers: The Faith of Wisconsin’s Abolitionists 1830-60 Environmental Science and Sculpture Teacher, Clara Mohammed and Carter School of Excellence, Milwaukee, WI 1991-2001 Cross-Cultural and Reconciliation Studies in North Dakota, on and off reservations, in and out of correctional facilities 1976-2001 To clients and perspective clients , ADA, Age, Workers Compensation, Race and Sex Discrimination Law 1995 Author of paper on OSHA, FRA, regulations, Slip and Fall Hazards: OSHA and FRA Regulations Compared, a Mountain Climbers Perspective, 1995 New York, Railroad Law Seminar 30 years, Expedition Learning, Tour Guide for Foreign Visitors, Hunters, and Natives of Dakotas 2004-2005 Expedition and Project Learning, Tour Guide in Milwaukee for Afro-Centric Schools (K-12), and Carter School of Excellence (K-5) Author of curriculum for prisoners and their children: In the Tracks of My Ancestors to My Future
Work Experience: Attorney	25 years legal services for Natives, Afro-Americans, and Whites: Criminal defense, civil rights and claims against tort feasors including Federal, State, and Tribal entities for prisoner abuse Juvenile and adult courts; tribal, state, and federal cases involved attempted murder, burglary, trafficking , spouse and child abuse, theft, and DWI’s Case preparations of experts for criminal and civil proceedings Appellate argument before 8th Circuit Federal Court on a reservation murder case: Lost, 2 to 1 Work in : Federal Maximum Security Prison , Lewisburg, PA ; New Orleans Louisiana Parish Prison; and Standing Rock Jail , Ft Yates, ND Work with federal and state probation systems , wardens and directors of adult and youth correction facilities Most significant criminal/constitutional cases:: State v. Dalgliesh, Motion for dismissal successfully asserted the Magna Charta’s limits on police power: Case held the legislature’s impositions of criminal sanctions/forfeitures upon a disabled worker were excessive: Charges dismissed. Most significant civil rights/constitutional case for children and parents: Cardiff v. Bismarck Public Schools. Case held that state constitution required provision of free text books, busing, and certain after school activities be provided free of charge Most significant environmental/constitutional case, United Plainsmen v. North Dakota Water Commission. Case decided the Public Trust Doctrine controls governmental dedications affecting air, water, scenic beauty, and historic sites in North Dakota. Co-Founder of an alternative dispute resolution service called the North Dakota Christian Conciliation Service: Principles and practices of this service were useful in obtaining dismissals and pleas which minimized the disruption of lives of both victims and perpetrators of rape, murder, sexual molestations, and burglary. Diane Schwandt v. North Dakota Workers Compensation Commission, an abandoned litigation initiated to assert claim of equal rights for an unmarried woman cohabiting with her significant other. Her companion, also her illegitimate children’s provider, was permanently injured at work. The commission denied her compensation for the value of essential care she provided her wounded companion. She was also denied loss of companionship. She abandoned her constitutional case.
Education and Travels	2005 M.Ed., Creative Arts in Learning, emphasis on Multiple Intelligences Theory Lesley University, Boston, MA 2002 to Rapid City, South Dakota to the Second World Congress of Indigenous Christian Peoples 2000 interviews of the Elwa and Makah Tribes of the Olympic Peninsula regarding Treaty rights to harvest whales shell fish and salmon 1999 Belfast Ireland to study the Irish Peace Process and Industrial Safety at Holland and Wolff Ship Yards 1998 Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior to study of the lamprey with Stanley Sievertson, one of th last white commercial fishermen and their representative to the Great Lakes Commission 1976 to the Chief Gall Inn, Mobridge , South Dakota for the American Indian Movement’s Treaty conference 1975 Fish with Sicilian commercial fishermen out of San Francisco Harbor and assist their leader in presentations at hearing before the California DNR 1975 J. D., University of North Dakota – Grand Forks, ND 1973 Ghana, West Africa with Experiment in International Living of Brattleboro, Vermont to study Anglo–African Law and Chattel Slavery, and fishing practices of Ewe Tribe 1971 Arabic History and Linguistics, Defense Language Institute West of Monterey, CA 1968-69 Work on and offshore in oil-well drilling operations and observations of the effects of industrialization upon the Mississippi‘s estuaries. 1968 work with the Greenwood Movement, in Greenwood , Mississippi, an alliance of white and black , Christians and Jews resisting the Klu Klux Klan 1968 Honduras, Central America service in a Medical Mission called Amigos de Las Americas B.S., Botany/Chemistry North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 1965 Associate of Arts, Bismarck Junior College, ND 1964 St Columbans Seminary , Oconomowoc, WI 1963 Crosier Seminary , Onamia, MN
Volunteer Services	For perpetrators and victims: Peace: Perpetrators and Victims, Co-Presented with Honorable William Bontrager, Retired Circuit Judge of Elkhart ,IN For men in half-way house, services with Gideons at the Milwaukee Men’s’ Shelter For Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: Member of Salvation Army’s Advisory Board For Bismarck Firefighters: Presentations and training on ADA, Age, Workers Compensation, Race and Sexual Harassment For Workers in AFL-CIO Affiliated Unions: Presentations and training on accidents in the work place: Bankruptcy or Survival: A study of the law’s interfaces with compensation insurance, medicine, science, and engineering. For Workers: Testimony before North Dakota Executive boards and Legislative Committee on Civil and criminal code revisions related to Pornography and Rights of Injured Workers For Native Americans and posterity: Several appearances before US Army Corp of Engineers Public Hearings on Missouri River Water Management
Publications	Slip and Fall Hazards: OSHA and FRA Regulations Compared, a Mountain Climber’s Perspective, 1995 New York, Railroad Law Seminar. Tears and Wails: An Ode to the Survivors, an Acrostic poem published by War, Literature & Arts , An International Journal of the Humanities 2003 Vol. 15, Number I, Page 176 Sunken Steamboats of the Mountain Trade, A four-part series written for the Missouri Valley Historical Society and published by the Bismarck Tribune. The articles focused on the Indians, Trappers, Soldiers, Steam Boaters, and Farmers who once lived an unflooded remnant of the Missouri River from Garrison to Owahe Dam Messages from Kumasi, an account of my life among the Ashanti and Ewe tribes of Ghana, published by the Bismarck Tribune
Licenses Memberships and Committees	2001-2006 Substitute Teacher’s license State of Wisconsin From 1976 to 2001 Member of North Dakota Bar From 1985 to 2001 American Trial Lawyers Association From 2005 NAACP of Milwaukee