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Objectives<\/strong><\/td>\nEngage Br. Finney D<\/p>\n
    \n
  • Expedition Learning Guide,<\/li>\n
  • Sculptor, and<\/li>\n
  • Story Teller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Work Experience:
\nEducator<\/strong><\/td>\n		\n
    \n
  • 2004-2005 Guest Lecturer at Upper Iowa University in African-American
    \nStudies, topic: Evict the Indians and Shelter
    \nthe Freedom Seekers: The Faith of Wisconsin\u2019s Abolitionists
    \n1830-60<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Environmental Science and Sculpture Teacher, Clara Mohammed
    \nand Carter School of Excellence, Milwaukee, WI<\/li>\n
  • 1991-2001 Cross-Cultural and Reconciliation
    \nStudies in North Dakota<\/span>, on and off reservations, in and
    \nout of correctional facilities<\/li>\n
  • 1976-2001 To clients and perspective clients , ADA, Age, Workers
    \nCompensation, Race and Sex Discrimination Law<\/li>\n
  • 1995 Author of paper on OSHA, FRA, regulations, Slip
    \nand Fall Hazards: OSHA and FRA Regulations Compared, a Mountain
    \nClimbers Perspective<\/span>, 1995 New York, Railroad Law Seminar<\/li>\n
  • 30 years, Expedition Learning<\/span>,
    \nTour Guide for Foreign Visitors, Hunters, and Natives of Dakotas<\/li>\n
  • 2004-2005 Expedition and Project Learning<\/span>,
    \nTour Guide in Milwaukee for Afro-Centric Schools (K-12), and Carter
    \nSchool of Excellence (K-5)<\/li>\n
  • Author of curriculum for prisoners and their children: In
    \nthe Tracks of My Ancestors to My Future<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Work Experience:
\nAttorney<\/strong><\/td>\n		\n
    \n
  • 25 years legal services for Natives, Afro-Americans, and Whites:
    \nCriminal defense, civil rights and claims against tort feasors
    \nincluding Federal, State, and Tribal entities for prisoner abuse<\/li>\n
  • Juvenile and adult courts; tribal, state, and federal cases
    \ninvolved attempted murder, burglary, trafficking , spouse and
    \nchild abuse, theft, and DWI\u2019s<\/li>\n
  • Case preparations of experts for criminal and civil proceedings<\/li>\n
  • Appellate argument before 8th Circuit Federal Court on a reservation
    \nmurder case: Lost, 2 to 1<\/li>\n
  • Work in : Federal Maximum Security Prison , Lewisburg, PA ;
    \nNew Orleans Louisiana Parish Prison; and Standing Rock Jail ,
    \nFt Yates, ND<\/li>\n
  • Work with federal and state probation systems , wardens and
    \ndirectors of adult and youth correction facilities<\/li>\n
  • Most significant criminal\/constitutional cases:: State
    \nv. Dalgliesh<\/span>, Motion for dismissal successfully asserted
    \nthe Magna Charta\u2019s limits on police power: Case held the
    \nlegislature\u2019s impositions of criminal sanctions\/forfeitures
    \nupon a disabled worker were excessive: Charges dismissed.<\/li>\n
  • Most significant civil rights\/constitutional case for children
    \nand parents: Cardiff v. Bismarck Public
    \nSchools<\/span>. Case held that state constitution required provision
    \nof free text books, busing, and certain after school activities
    \nbe provided free of charge<\/li>\n
  • Most significant environmental\/constitutional case, United
    \nPlainsmen v. North Dakota Water Commission<\/span>. Case decided
    \nthe Public Trust Doctrine controls governmental dedications affecting
    \nair, water, scenic beauty, and historic sites in North Dakota.<\/li>\n
  • Co-Founder of an alternative dispute resolution service called
    \nthe North Dakota Christian Conciliation Service: Principles and
    \npractices of this service were useful in obtaining dismissals
    \nand pleas which minimized the disruption of lives of both victims
    \nand perpetrators of rape, murder, sexual molestations, and burglary.<\/li>\n
  • Diane Schwandt v. North Dakota Workers
    \nCompensation Commission<\/span>, an abandoned litigation initiated
    \nto assert claim of equal rights for an unmarried woman cohabiting
    \nwith her significant other. Her companion, also her illegitimate
    \nchildren\u2019s provider, was permanently injured at work. The
    \ncommission denied her compensation for the value of essential
    \ncare she provided her wounded companion. She was also denied loss
    \nof companionship. She abandoned her constitutional case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Education
\nand Travels<\/strong><\/td>\n		\n
    \n
  • 2005 M.Ed., Creative Arts in Learning, emphasis on Multiple
    \nIntelligences Theory Lesley University, Boston, MA<\/li>\n
  • 2002 to Rapid City, South Dakota to the Second World Congress
    \nof Indigenous Christian Peoples<\/li>\n
  • 2000 interviews of the Elwa and Makah Tribes of the Olympic
    \nPeninsula regarding Treaty rights to harvest whales shell fish
    \nand salmon<\/li>\n
  • 1999 Belfast Ireland to study the Irish Peace Process and Industrial
    \nSafety at Holland and Wolff Ship Yards<\/li>\n
  • 1998 Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior to study of
    \nthe lamprey with Stanley Sievertson, one of th last white commercial
    \nfishermen and their representative to the Great Lakes Commission<\/li>\n
  • 1976 to the Chief Gall Inn, Mobridge , South Dakota for the
    \nAmerican Indian Movement\u2019s Treaty conference<\/li>\n
  • 1975 Fish with Sicilian commercial fishermen out of San Francisco
    \nHarbor and assist their leader in presentations at hearing before
    \nthe California DNR<\/li>\n
  • 1975 J. D., University of North Dakota – Grand Forks, ND<\/li>\n
  • 1973 Ghana, West Africa with Experiment in International Living
    \nof Brattleboro, Vermont to study Anglo\u2013African Law and Chattel
    \nSlavery, and fishing practices of Ewe Tribe<\/li>\n
  • 1971 Arabic History and Linguistics, Defense Language Institute
    \nWest of Monterey, CA<\/li>\n
  • 1968-69 Work on and offshore in oil-well drilling operations
    \nand observations of the effects of industrialization upon the
    \nMississippi\u2018s estuaries.<\/li>\n
  • 1968 work with the Greenwood Movement, in Greenwood , Mississippi,
    \nan alliance of white and black , Christians and Jews resisting
    \nthe Klu Klux Klan<\/li>\n
  • 1968 Honduras, Central America service in a Medical Mission
    \ncalled Amigos de Las Americas<\/li>\n
  • B.S., Botany\/Chemistry North Dakota State University, Fargo,
    \nND<\/li>\n
  • 1965 Associate of Arts, Bismarck Junior College, ND<\/li>\n
  • 1964 St Columbans Seminary , Oconomowoc, WI<\/li>\n
  • 1963 Crosier Seminary , Onamia, MN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Volunteer
\nServices<\/strong><\/td>\n		\n
    \n
  • For perpetrators and victims: Peace:
    \nPerpetrators and Victims<\/span>, Co-Presented with Honorable William
    \nBontrager, Retired Circuit Judge of Elkhart ,IN<\/li>\n
  • For men in half-way house, services with Gideons at the Milwaukee
    \nMen\u2019s\u2019 Shelter<\/li>\n
  • For Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: Member of Salvation Army\u2019s
    \nAdvisory Board<\/li>\n
  • For Bismarck Firefighters: Presentations and training on ADA,
    \nAge, Workers Compensation, Race and Sexual Harassment<\/li>\n
  • For Workers in AFL-CIO Affiliated Unions: Presentations and
    \ntraining on accidents in the work place: Bankruptcy
    \nor Survival<\/span>: A study of the law\u2019s interfaces with
    \ncompensation insurance, medicine, science, and engineering.<\/li>\n
  • For Workers: Testimony before North Dakota Executive boards
    \nand Legislative Committee on Civil and criminal code revisions
    \nrelated to Pornography and Rights of Injured Workers<\/li>\n
  • For Native Americans and posterity: Several appearances before
    \nUS Army Corp of Engineers Public Hearings on Missouri River Water
    \nManagement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Publications<\/strong><\/td>\n\n
    \n
  • Slip and Fall Hazards: OSHA and FRA
    \nRegulations Compared, a Mountain Climber\u2019s Perspective<\/span>,
    \n1995 New York, Railroad Law Seminar.<\/li>\n
  • Tears and Wails: An Ode to the Survivors<\/span>,
    \nan Acrostic poem published by War, Literature & Arts , An
    \nInternational Journal of the Humanities 2003 Vol. 15, Number I,
    \nPage 176<\/li>\n
  • Sunken Steamboats of the Mountain Trade<\/span>,
    \nA four-part series written for the Missouri Valley Historical
    \nSociety and published by the Bismarck Tribune. The articles focused
    \non the Indians, Trappers, Soldiers, Steam Boaters, and Farmers
    \nwho once lived an unflooded remnant of the Missouri River from
    \nGarrison to Owahe Dam<\/li>\n
  • Messages from Kumasi<\/span>, an account
    \nof my life among the Ashanti and Ewe tribes of Ghana, published
    \nby the Bismarck Tribune<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Licenses Memberships
\nand Committees<\/strong><\/td>\n		\n
    \n
  • 2001-2006 Substitute Teacher\u2019s license State of Wisconsin<\/li>\n
  • From 1976 to 2001 Member of North Dakota Bar<\/li>\n
  • From 1985 to 2001 American Trial Lawyers Association<\/li>\n
  • From 2005 NAACP of Milwaukee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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