This is a legislative commemoration honoring Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a Crow Creek Sioux Tribe citizen and pioneering scholar who founded Native American studies programs and published influential works on Indigenous sovereignty and culture. The commemoration expresses the state's gratitude for her contributions to academia and Native American scholarship, recognizing her role in establishing academic spaces where Native stories, languages, and philosophies are respected and studied.
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This bill does not directly amend codified state law.
The amendment added seven additional representatives and three senators as sponsors of the commemoration.
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