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Lawrence Baca
Lawrence Baca is a Native American attorney and was the deputy director of the Office of Tribal Justice with the United States Department of Justice. Early life Lawrence Baca was born in Colorado in 1950 to a white mother and Pawnee Indian father. His family moved to San Diego California in 1953. Baca and his family experienced prejudice, including a hate crime targeted at his father.Baca, L. R. (2003). Reflections on Diversity in the Public Law Office by the DOJ Civil Rights Division's First Indian Lawyer. ''Pub. Law.'', ''11'', 3. Education Baca enrolled at the University of San Diego but later transferred to the University of California, Santa Barbara where graduated in 1973. Baca took advantage of the individual major program at UCSB and created his own major titled American Indian History and Culture. During his time in university Baca worked with inmates in the federal prison in Lompoc on preparing for parole hearings. After college Baca applied to law school and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawnee Nation
The Pawnee, also known by their endonym (which translates to "Men of Men"), are an Plains Indians, Indigenous people of the Great Plains that historically lived in Nebraska and northern Kansas but today are based in Oklahoma. They are the federally recognized Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, who are headquartered in Pawnee, Oklahoma. Their Pawnee language belongs to the Caddoan language family. Historically, the Pawnee lived in villages of earth lodges near the Loup River, Loup, Republican River, Republican, and Platte River, South Platte rivers. The Pawnee tribal economic activities throughout the year alternated between farming crops and hunting American bison, buffalo. In the early 18th century, the Pawnee numbered more than 60,000 people. They lived along the Loup () and Platte () river areas for centuries; however, several tribes from the Great Lakes began moving onto the Great Plains and encroaching on Pawnee territory, including the Dakota people, Dakota, Lakota people, La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
