John E. Echohawk
Native American Rights Activist • November 2, 2006

With your quiet strength, impeccable integrity, and great stature, you have become the indispensable voice for Indian Country, leading the Native American Rights Fund, an essential force for Native Justice, and negotiating at the highest level of federal and state governments, ever open to new ideas and ever unyielding to encroachments on the tribal sovereignty to which you have given your all.