DLN Issues : Legal Affairs Involving American Indians
BOARDING SCHOOL LAWSUITS
 PLAINTIFFS SHERWYN ZEPHIER, ADELE ZEPHIER, RODERICA ROUSE, LLOYD B. ONE STAR, EDNA LITTLE ELK, CHRISTINE MEDICINE HORN and LOIS L. LONG, INDIVIDUALLY AND ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHERS SIMARLY SITUATED, VS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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 Lawsuit Alleges Abuse at Indian Schools
11 July 2003 AP
Abuse Charges Hit Reservation
Church-Run Schools Cited In Wide-Ranging Lawsuit
Washington Post, 2 June 2003
How qualified is the attorney in the boarding school child abuse case?
Lakota Journal
Federal Lawsuit Filed Concerning church Abuses at Rosebud Rapid City Journal 12 April 2003
Six members of Sioux tribes have filed a lawsuit seeking $25 billion in damages from the federal government for the alleged mental, physical and sexual abuse of students at Indian boarding schools nationwide.
Will the Case Come to Its Rightful End?
By Kim Karaff
Lakota Journal Correspondent
DALLAS, Tex. — Gary Frischer whose office is in California and attorney Jeffery Herman, Hollywood, Florida intend to file a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Government and those responsible for residential boarding schools on South Dakota Indian reservations, most notably the Catholic Church. They are claiming the abuse of students over the past decades—physical, mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual and cultural abuse.
Catholic Church will be served with Federal Lawsuit Black Hills Peoples News March 2003
Mr. Gary Frischer was in Pine Ridge this week. Frischer is a Multi-District Litigation Consultant. Mr. Frischer said that Attorney Jeffrey Herman, who has previously and successfully sued the Catholic Church, is representing hundreds of Lakota who have been sexually, mentally and physically abused.
"It's about the alleged stripping of the Lakota Culture from many children who attended Catholic schools in the past," Frischer said. "And the federal lawsuit will be filed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on 17 March."
Exposing the Truth, Righting a Wrong By Kim Karaff Lakota Journal correspondent
“Even when they had me down, I’d say to myself, ‘I will beat them,” Floyd Hand, Lakota Headsman said as he recounted some of his boarding school experiences to a small group that met on the Pine Ridge Reservation last week.
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