1700 - 1899 / American Indian Justice
Simon Pokagon was born in 1830 at the height of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. He also lived through the General Allotment Era (1890s-1910s), when settler-colonizers continued to reduce the land of already diminished American Indian reservations.
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1941 - 1960 / American Indian Justice
George Gillette was born October 29, 1902, on the Fort Berthold Reservation. He attended Bismarck Indian School and Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota, as well as the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, where he studied carpentry. After graduating in 1926, he married Evelyn Wilkinson in 1930. They raised nine children at the Beaver Creek…
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