Indian Country 50 Faces
Sam Deloria, of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has been the director of the American Indian Graduate Center since 2007. AIGC, formerly American Indian Scholarships, is a national nonprofit dedicated to helping Indian graduate students. He went to Yale University for both his undergraduate degree and law school, and is president of the American Indian Law Center. He founded, and was the first Secretary-General of the World Council of Indigenous People. In 1976, he was one of the founders of the Commission on State-Tribal Relations. In 2001, he spent time in Greenland with a group of instructors teaching people from nine countries about international measures to protect human rights and the rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as on how to testify before the United Nations regarding indigenous issues. Deloria also serves as a member of the National Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects of research, which was established by the Indian Health Service.
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