Heather Dawn Thompson is a nationally recognized Native American lawyer and leader.
She focuses her practice on American Indian law, federal Indian policy and advocacy, tribal sovereignty, and tribal economic development including e-commerce, international trade, energy, finance, and telecom.
In addition, she concentrates on local tribal community economic development, tribal nation building (including constitutions, codes, and courts), criminal law, and homeland security. She works with corporations doing business in Indian Country, individual tribes, tribal and Indian-owned businesses, and intertribal associations.
Prior to joining the firm, Heather was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Dakota's Indian Country Section. There, she was an Indian Country Federal Prosecutor on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Heather covered violent sex crimes and violence against women.
Heather is widely recognized for her work while serving as the Director of Government Affairs for the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the nation's oldest and largest intertribal organization. Heather also served as a Policy Advisor for Judiciary and Indian Affairs to Senators Heather also had extensive international experience, having lived on four different continents and traveled and worked in over 40 countries. Heather is frequently sought internationally to speak on indigenous law and issues.
Heather is the former President of the National Native American Bar Association (NNABA) and the DC Native American Bar Association (NABA-DC), and is the current President the South Dakota Indian Country Bar Association (SDICBA).
Heather lives in the Black Hills in South Dakota and in Washington, DC. She is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, speaks Spanish and Lakota.
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References
Criminal Jurisdiction
- Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-panel-reviewing-native-american-sentencing-1429608601
- Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/12/28/a-man-of-healing-a-saga-of-suffering/
- Modern Realities of the 'Jurisdictional Maze' in Indian Country: Case Studies on Methamphetamines Use and the Pressures to Ensure Homeland Security: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2167430
- Native Americans on the Federal Judiciary: http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2010/07/06/no-native-americans-among-our-860-federal-judges
Indian Country
- Diane Sawyer 20/20: Children of the Plains: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/hidden-america-children-plains-robert-crumbling-trailer-dreams-2020-14742304 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoyR8_kQq2o&noredirect=1
- Rapid City Indian Boarding School Lands: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/deals-some-questionable-pepper-the-history-of-the-land/article_67cf941a-288b-5859-a6ef-879bdff26cd8.html
Career
- Indianz.com: http://www.indianz.com/News/2014/014202.asp
- Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/dc-area-appointments-for-july-7/2014/07/03/321e2208-014e-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html
- Washington Business Journal: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/potmsearch/detail/submission/2858961/Heather_Thompson
- Politico: http://www.politico.com/politicoinfluence/0614/politicoinfluence14423.html
- The Deal: http://www.thedeal.com/movers/general-atlantic-recruits-andrew-crawford-from-advent.php
- Native News Today: http://www.nativenewstoday.com/2014/06/27/loretta-tuell-and-heather-dawn-thompson-join-greenberg/
- GT: http://www.gtlaw.com/News-Events/Newsroom/Press-Releases/176947/Greenberg-Traurig-Boosts-American-Indian-Law-Practice-with-Addition-of-Loretta-Tuell-and-Heather-Dawn-Thompson
- Indianz.com: http://www.indianz.com/News/2009/015448.asp
- http://www.martindale.com/Heather-Dawn-Thompson/159113621-lawyer.htm
Native American Voting Rights
- Campaign Finance - Citizens United FEC: http://www.buffalopost.net/?tag=heather-dawn-thompson ; https://books.google.com/books?id=-6AUBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT279&lpg=PT279&dq=%22heather+dawn+thompson%22+%22sonnenschein%22&source=bl&ots=V8mqxLTY8n&sig=jiitnIUxlJObhQ9BEUsyD9wLi7o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ARp4VPfVIvSHsQSh94Eg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22heather%20dawn%20thompson%22%20%22sonnenschein%22&f=false ; http://www.kumeyaay.com/all-news/1619-campaign-finance-ruling-impacts-tribes.html
- C-SPAN - Voter Suppression Panel: http://www.c-span.org/person/?heatherthompson
Language and Cultural Preservation
- Banana Bunch: http://www.whenyouwish.com/project/holiday-giving----savesiouxlakota-langua
- Cheyenne River Youth Project - Friend Swap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34778-2004Mar29.html ; https://www.washingtonlife.com/backissues/archives/03apr/fyi_dc.htm ; http://www.lakotayouth.org/2012/05/washington-dc-friendswap-raises-8500-fo-cryp/
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