Samantha Maltais, the American Indian College Fund Law Scholarship recipient headed to Harvard Law School, was interviewed last night on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell program on MSNBC live. She gave a shout-out to the College Fund for her law scholarship, the Full Circle Scholarship program that funded her education at Dartmouth, spoke about murdered and missing Indigenous people, and shared her career goals.
See the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XnWg1wiAiQ
From Wounded Knee to the civil rights era, American Indians and Alaska Natives are no strangers to either institutional harm or the need to use the system to make their voices heard. On this National Day of Racial Healing, learn from the examples of our elders and ancestors how to stay safe while continually pushing for your rights and self-actualization.
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