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 six additional House members and three Senators as co-sponsors of this commemoration honoring Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, and made minor formatting corrections (removing line numbers and fixing a hyphenation error in her name). This change strengthens the bill by expanding legislative support for the commemoration without altering its substance or purpose.
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Prime sponsor · Sen.
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