Alton "Sonny" Smart.wmv
Channel: Fawn YoungBear-Tibbetts
Date: 07/09/2011

The topic of this Panel is Tribal Communities, you can imagine how wide embracing that topic will be.  We have some pretty exciting panelists. We have more story tellers to conclude our morning session. 
Alton "Sonny" Smart, member of the Bad River Band where he was born into the Fish Clan. .  Sonny holds positions in Ojibwe ceremonial drum and Midewiwin medicine societies.  Since 1985 Sonny has served as the Judge for the Bad River Tribal Court where he currently is the Chief Associate Judge.  He holds a Ph.D. in sociology and since 1990 has been a professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, where he coordinates Native American rural and social work programs and also the Native American Family Institute and he teaches courses in Native American social work, child welfare, problems in family interaction, and other social work.