Sarah Deer (born November 9, 1972) is a Native American ( Muscogee (Creek) Nation) lawyer, and a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies and Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. She was a 2014 MacArthur fellow and has been inducted into the

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. Deer advocates on behalf of survivors of sexual assault and

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, primarily in Native American communities. She has been credited for her "instrumental role" in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, as well as for testimony which is credited with the 2010 passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act. Deer coauthored, with Bonnie Claremont,

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's 2007 report ''Maze of Injustice, ''documenting sexual assault against Native American women. She is also Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals. Deer advocates for

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the lat ...

, and trans politics in Indigenous communities. She is most acknowledged for her activism to stop violence against Native American women. She has received national awards from the Department of Justice and the American Bar Association for her accomplishments. Deer received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Kansas.

Bibliography

Books

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Articles

* Deer, Sarah
Toward an Indigenous Jurisprudence of Rape
(2010-10-13). Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 14, 2004–2005.

References

External links

Profile at William Mitchell

''Maze of Injustice''
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