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The executive director of the National Congress of American Indians
(NCAI),
JoAnn Chase was elected to a three-year term on
the NAPT
Board of Directors in 1997.
Chase is Mandan-Hidatsa-born
and was raised on the Fort Berthold Reservation
in North Dakota. After receiving a degree in film
theory and criticism from Boston
University, she became Special Assistant to
Rep
Barbara Boxer, with whom she had held a fellowship
during college.
Chase attended the University
of New Mexico School of Law with a special
concentration in Indian law. Among her activities
there, she served on the editorial board of the
Law Review, received the University's Best Oral
Advocate Award, and was the first Native woman
elected president of UNM's Student Bar Association. |
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