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Jerilyn DeCoteau is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota. She practiced law for 25 years pressing for the rights of Indian tribes to govern themselves, control their resources and insure human rights for their members. She practiced Indian law at the Native American Rights Fund, U.S. Department of Justice, and for her Tribe. She served as Director of the Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado and has taught Indian law courses at Yale Law School, the University of Denver law school, and at the Turtle Mountain Community College.ÌýÌýÌý

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Jerilyn co-directs Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, which offers programs aimed at building relationships with Native Americans.Ìý She was instrumental in establishing Â鶹ӰԺ’s Indigenous Peoples Day and co founded Right Relationship Â鶹ӰԺ with the mission of building relationships with Native Peoples, especially the original inhabitants of Â鶹ӰԺ, the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Peoples.Ìý Jerilyn currently serves as Chief Justice for the Pueblo of San Ildefonso Supreme Court and as Associate Justice for the Kiowa Tribe Supreme Court.Ìý Jerilyn is one of the founders and past-president of the board of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.Ìý She served on the boards of the YWCA of Â鶹ӰԺ County and Reading to End Racism Program, where sheÌý was a reader and trainer.Ìý In 2002 she received the Multicultural Award for Government, awarded by Â鶹ӰԺ County Community Action Programs. She currently sits on the Board for the Museum of Â鶹ӰԺ.ÌýÌý