Native America, discovered and conquered / Robert J. Miller ; foreword by Elizabeth
Furse, 2006
Wikipedia, 2021-04-20
Information trouvée : Elizabeth Furse (October 13, 1936 – April 18, 2021) was a Kenya Colony-born American
small business owner and former faculty member of Portland State University. She was
a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999, representing
Oregon's 1st congressional district. She was a Democrat, and was the first naturalized
U.S. Citizen born in Africa to win election to the United States Congress. Furse was
born in Nairobi, Kenya Colony, to British parents, and grew up in South Africa. Inspired
by her mother, she became an anti-apartheid activist in 1951, joining the first Black
Sash demonstration in Cape Town, South Africa. She moved to England in 1956, before
eventually moving to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California. While
in Los Angeles, she became involved in a women's self-help project in Watts, and with
Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers movement, working to unionize grape farm workers.
Moving to Seattle, Washington, in 1968, she became involved in American Indian/Native
American rights causes including fishing and treaty rights. She became a United States
citizen in 1972. Two years later, she graduated from Evergreen State College. In 1978,
she settled in the Portland, Oregon, area, where she attended Northwestern School
of Law. After two years of law school, she dropped out and led the efforts of several
Oregon-based American Indian/Native American tribes to win federal recognition, successfully
lobbying the U.S. Congress to grant federal recognition to the Coquille, Klamath,
and Grand Ronde tribes. In 1986, she co-founded the Portland-based Oregon Peace Institute,
establishing a mission to develop and disseminate conflict resolution curriculum in
Oregon schools.
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