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Lee Booke Phillips new article content ... Lee Booke Phillips is an American attorney and civil and Indian rights leader. His work with the Navajo Hopi Land Dispute was the subjet of the book, The Wind Won't Know Me http://www.amazon.com/Wind-Wont-Know-Me-Navajo-Hopi/dp/0679743863, by Emily Benedeck http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Benedek, published by Knopf.
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After having worked as a union organiser for Ceasar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union in Ohio and California, Lee attended law school at Ohio State University. during law school, Lee traveled to Arizona as a National Lawyer's Guild Summer intern to work with the Navajo Indians. Follwoing graduation Lee recieved ad two year felloship from Howard Univeristy to return to Arizona to continue his work with the Navajos. Lee worked representing thousand of Navajos in the Navajo Hopi Land Dispute with the United States government. during this period, Lee formed a non-profit law office to provide free legal representation to Native American. His work was funded by grants from several private foundations, including two MacArthur Foundation Grants, and a fellowship from the Berkely Law School Foundation.
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