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article "Which master is the World Council of Churches serving...Karl Marx or Jesus Christ?" mentions the 1976 U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee report which said the American Indian Movement had "ties with Cuba, China, the Irish Republican Army, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the
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and was involved in securing passage of the federal Indian Education and Indian Tribal Community College acts. Thirty-one Indian community colleges and dozens of K-12 reservation school programs resulted from this legislation. He was also a major consultant in the creation of the
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Crull is an anomaly in many ways, for examples: educationally (fifteen international institutions of higher learning according to the British D.I.B.); occupationally (occasionally taking nondescript professional positions while simultaneously doing work for or with
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staffer responsible for the shaping of a U.S. House hearing on legislation that D-Q U was seeking in 1981. He and the Rislings had developed a rapport over the years since which ultimately led to the
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For many years, Risling served as President of DQU's board of trustees. Only two months before his death, he participated in the decision to close the University, which had lost its accreditation.
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program. He remained there until his retirement in 1993, when the program became a full-fledged department and is currently one of only three such departments offering doctoral degrees.
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and I had worked on from 1961-1962, but it was Dave's organizing skill and patience that came to the fore in 1971 when DQU finally acquired flesh and bones."
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was the first sponsor to withdraw from the project and eventually Crull had to scrap it even though distribution for a completed film was already in place.
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film project. Well over a hundred hours of footage had been shot when a schism between some of the film's subjects erupted into becoming litigation.
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and its turbulent relationship with the U.S. government. The media had labelled this school as being "controversial" for years and as one of the
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e.g., William L. MacDougal and Warner Ragsdale, Jr. "Round 2 in Indian Wars Rages in Courts"
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an internationally San Francisco based law firm which had represented D-Q University
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The achievement he was reportedly most proud of was his role in creating
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and other powerful figures); genealogically (being related to
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After serving in the Navy during World War II, he attended
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Index

Humboldt County, California
Davis, California
Native American
Hoopa
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo
vocational agriculture
Modesto Junior College
UC Davis
Native American studies
California Indian Legal Services
Native American Rights Fund
Smithsonian's
National Museum of the American Indian
National Advisory Council on Indian Education
D-Q University
Jack D. Forbes
Carl Gorman
Jack D. Forbes
Morrison & Foerster
Jan Crull, Jr.
D-Q University
American Indian Movement
Hill
Morrison & Foerster
Tribal colleges and universities


Obituary in the UC Davis news, 3/15/2005

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