Join us for a screening of the PBS documentary “Warrior Lawyers,” which is also featured in the Bellingham National exhibition at the Whatcom Museum. The film delves into the lives and work of Native American attorneys and judges at the forefront of issues like nation re-building, inter-generational trauma, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), peacemaking, and tribal justice. Highlighting their cultural preservation and social justice efforts, “Warrior Lawyers” offers an insightful look into the challenges and triumphs within Native American communities.

“Warrior Lawyers” (2021) is a one-hour PBS documentary that focuses on the stories of Native American Lawyers, Tribal Judges and their colleagues who work with Native Nations, their citizens, and mainstream institutions to achieve healing and Sacred Justice. These unseen role models strive daily to address, repair, and resolve unique and complicated historical, governmental, legal, judicial, and social welfare issues, which are most often rooted in discrimination, historical trauma, and cultural destruction. Take a journey into past and present-day Indian Country to learn of untold stories that shine a light on Native Americans rising up to create a new path for today and for the next Seven Generations.

The screening is included with museum admission and is free for Whatcom Museum members.

(For those requiring accommodations: Unfortunately, this documentary does not have subtitles.)