Biography

5/3/04

Charles Yow, graduate of Loyola School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana; he is the Senior Litigation Partner with Red Cloud Law Firm, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, his expertise is in the area of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with particular focus on issues involving discrimination in education and other government funded programs as related to American Indians and other people of color.  Mr. Yow is  Cherokee, a former Tribal Court judge and mediator, a member of the faculty of the Skills Program at Loyola School of Law, New Orleans, LA and directs the tribal attorney education program with the Oglala Lakota Bar Association.  He has written and spoken frequently on topics related to the effects of race and ethnicity based discrimination in education, the negative effect and legal issues related to the use of Native based mascots in educational institutions and developing non-litigation strategies to effectively address discrimination.

1/3/01

I was in the North Atlantic on a Y2k audit, was interesting place to be in the winter, cold does not even come close to explaining the temperature.

I am a little overwhelmed at this date.

Not sure if you know what all I am involved in. Excluding my law practice and native practice, I am the director of the following: Mississippi Mediation Association, Mississippi Mediation Project; Louisiana Mediation Project, Conciliation and Mediation Project of the Louisiana Mediation Project. I also own and operate: Human Resource Associates, Health Care Human Resource Associates, Gulf Coast Mediation and a company that deals with museums. Everything total makes things rather busy, on the good side I was named INE's Attorney of Year 2000, and Native Attorney of Year 2000, and am being named for four awards for my work in mediation and conciliation.

Charles

(This letter was in response to What have you been up to. LOL!)

Information about the Denver South Western Rail Road was recieved Via Email from contributor Charles Yow.  It appears to have been a very small and unprofitable railroad which was sold off. At one time it ran along and through the pine ridge reservation.

A clipping found on the internet!!! How did he always know things like this? J

Jani Leverett, Cherokee, a very dear friend of Charles, who died just a few years ago, had her husband plant trees foe people that meant a lot to her. He planted a tree for him in the Mohawk Trail State Forest in Massachusetts. His tree is planted with Jani's in The Cherokee Grove.

More information can be found at:
http://www.uark.edu/misc/ents/fieldtrips/mass/WP150MA9_7_2004.htm