Biography

Dr. LaNada War Jack

LaNada War Jack is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho.  She attended the University of California at Berkeley and majored in an Independent Major of Native American Law & Politics.  While a student at UC Berkeley, LaNada participated as the Native American component of the Third Worlds Strike to establish the first Ethnic Studies Program in the UC statewide University system. In 1969, LaNada and other students throughout California took over Alcatraz Island in a peaceful protest of the federal government’s ill treatment of Native people and broken treaties with tribes. This facilitated certain subsequent government funded policies for Indian tribes nationwide while recovering millions of acres of land back. President Nixon immediately signed an Executive Order to end the Termination Act.

Pursuing enforcement of treaty obligations and Indian Rights, LaNada was on the founding board and executive board of the Native American Rights Fund for nearly a decade and maintains a current relationship.  LaNada has been an elected councilwoman for her tribes and served on many boards both locally and nationally.  Dr. War Jack completed her graduate work at Idaho State University with a Masters in Public Administration and a Doctorate of Arts Degree in Political Science, Pocatello, Idaho in 1999. Dr. War Jack served as the Executive Director for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes for three years and is presently the President of Indigenous Visions Network. She taught classes in Native American History at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS. She also taught Native American Law and Politics at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho as a Distinguished Professor.  Dr. War Jack recently wrote a book titled  “Native Resistance: An Intergenerational Fight for Survival and Life” which is available on her website www.drwarjack.com.