Post by blackcrowheart on Mar 11, 2006 21:21:35 GMT -5
Author's treaty book was evidence in U.S. Supreme Court case
Author's treaty book was evidence in U.S. Supreme Court case Associated
Press
www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/14051818.htm
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Ronald Satz, a university administrator and historian
whose book on treaty rights of the Chippewa Indians became evidence in a
key U.S. Supreme Court case, has died of cancer.
Satz, 62, died Tuesday at Fairview University Medical Center in
Minneapolis after battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, funeral director
Jerry Speckien confirmed in a telephone interview Wednesday night.
Speckien, whose funeral home is handling arrangements for the family,
said a memorial service was being planned for Monday at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where Satz was provost and vice chancellor
before his medical condition worsened and he retired in October. He had
been with UW-Eau Claire since 1983.
As recounted on the university Web site, Satz was an American Indian
historian who specialized in treaties and treaty rights, in addition to
his administrative work.
His 1991 book, "Chippewa Treaty Rights," won an award of merit from the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
In 1998, Wisconsin's Chippewa bands presented the book into evidence in
the Mille Lacs case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawsuit by the
Mille Lac Chippewa band against the state of Minnesota contended an 1837
treaty allowed members to hunt and fish on non-reservation land without
state regulation.
Seven other Chippewa bands in Minnesota and Wisconsin joined the case,
as did the federal government, and the high court's 5-4 ruling in 1999
upheld those rights.
After the decision, tribal elder John Anderson of Wisconsin's Lac Courte
Oreilles Chippewa band honored Satz by giving him the name of Wasbishka
Ogitchida, or "The White Warrior," in a traditional ceremony.
"His work on American Indians was his passion," said Susan Harrison, who
has served as University Senate chairwoman at Eau Claire for nine years.
"He cared intensely about that work and the people."
Speckien said funeral arrangements were pending at the Fuller-Speckien
Funeral Home in Eau Claire.
Author's treaty book was evidence in U.S. Supreme Court case Associated
Press
www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/14051818.htm
<http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/14051818.htm>
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Ronald Satz, a university administrator and historian
whose book on treaty rights of the Chippewa Indians became evidence in a
key U.S. Supreme Court case, has died of cancer.
Satz, 62, died Tuesday at Fairview University Medical Center in
Minneapolis after battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, funeral director
Jerry Speckien confirmed in a telephone interview Wednesday night.
Speckien, whose funeral home is handling arrangements for the family,
said a memorial service was being planned for Monday at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where Satz was provost and vice chancellor
before his medical condition worsened and he retired in October. He had
been with UW-Eau Claire since 1983.
As recounted on the university Web site, Satz was an American Indian
historian who specialized in treaties and treaty rights, in addition to
his administrative work.
His 1991 book, "Chippewa Treaty Rights," won an award of merit from the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
In 1998, Wisconsin's Chippewa bands presented the book into evidence in
the Mille Lacs case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The lawsuit by the
Mille Lac Chippewa band against the state of Minnesota contended an 1837
treaty allowed members to hunt and fish on non-reservation land without
state regulation.
Seven other Chippewa bands in Minnesota and Wisconsin joined the case,
as did the federal government, and the high court's 5-4 ruling in 1999
upheld those rights.
After the decision, tribal elder John Anderson of Wisconsin's Lac Courte
Oreilles Chippewa band honored Satz by giving him the name of Wasbishka
Ogitchida, or "The White Warrior," in a traditional ceremony.
"His work on American Indians was his passion," said Susan Harrison, who
has served as University Senate chairwoman at Eau Claire for nine years.
"He cared intensely about that work and the people."
Speckien said funeral arrangements were pending at the Fuller-Speckien
Funeral Home in Eau Claire.