Brian Pierson.wmv
Channel: Fawn YoungBear-Tibbetts
Date: 2011-09-07

This panels topic concerns Social, Economic and Political Issues in the post-Voigt era.  Now after the Voigt decision, after 1983, there was incredible unrest. Throughtout our symposium we've heard a synopsis of some of that from certain angles, but in this panel we have people who were deeply and intimately involved in that process. 
 Brian Pierson of Godfrey and Kahn, Attorneys at Law, leads the firms Indian nation law practice group.  A cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1983.  Brian clerked for Federal District Judge Myron Gordon before entering private practice.  He won ACLU-Wisconsin Civil Libertarian of the Year for his representation of Chippewa spear fishers in the federal court lawsuit against hooligans seeking to prevent tribal members from exercising off-reservation fishing rights reserved in the treaties of '37 and '42.