Suzette Brewer is a writer specializing in federal Indian law, having written extensively on the Indian Child Welfare Act, environmental issues on reservations, the opioid crisis in Indian Country and violence against Native women and children. She has written for The Dallas Morning News, The Denver Post, Indian Country Today, and many others. Her published books include Real Indians: Portraits of Contemporary Native Americans and America’s Tribal Colleges; Sovereign: An Oral History of Indian Gaming in America. She is the 2015 recipient of the Richard LaCourse-Gannett Foundation Al Neuharth Investigative Journalism Award for her work on the Indian Child Welfare Act. She is also a 2018 John Jay/Tow Juvenile Justice Reporting Fellow. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation and is from Stilwell, Oklahoma.
Suzette Brewer will be presenting her film project A Broken Trust on the Crossing Borders workshop
