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Episode: Episode 345: Balfour, Penthouse Magazine & Palestine
Description: https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/icwa-author-sen-james-abourezk-dies-at-92/239029Abourezk, the first Arab American to serve in the U.S. Senate, represented South Dakota in both houses of Congress in the 1970s. Having grown up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, where his parents had landed after immigrating from Lebanon, he was an early champion of Indigenous rights and sponsored ICWA and other laws that reshaped the federal government’s tribal relations.During the early years of Abourezk’s tenure in the Senate, the Association on American Indian Affairs released the results of a 5-year study that found as many as o...