David Risling
David Risling Jr. (April 10, 1921 in Morek, Humboldt County, California – March 13, 2005 in Davis, California) was a Native American (Hoopa) educator and rights activist who was often referred to as "The Father of Indian Education".[1]
Life and achievements
After serving in the Navy during World War II, he attended
He was a co-founder of California Indian Legal Services and the Native American Rights Fund 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.[2] He was also a major consultant in the creation of the
D-Q University
The achievement he was reportedly most proud of was his role in creating
Jack D. Forbes (a co-founder of the University) has said, "It was a dream that the late Carl Gorman 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."
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.[2]
For about three years in the early 1990s, Risling,
See also
References
- ^ a b Obituary in the UC Davis news, 3/15/2005
- ^ a b Obituary in the L.A. Times, 3/16/2005
- ^ e.g., William L. MacDougal and Warner Ragsdale, Jr. "Round 2 in Indian Wars Rages in Courts" U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 25, 1982, pp. 63-64
- ^ Joseph A. Harriss' Reader's Digest 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 U.S. Communist Party"--Reader's Digest, August 1982, p.132
- ^ Rasa Gustaitis. "Spirits guard Wounded Knee". Chicago Tribune, July 9. 1982
- ^ Paul Simon, chair, Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, U. S. House of Representatives Hearing: D-Q University Land Transfer, July 29, 1981, pp.: 48; Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983. Crull encountered friction from some of his overall committee staff colleagues, people working for the Bill's sponsors, and the Administration in his work on this legislation and the shaping of the hearing
- Queen Elizabeth II, Audrey Hepburn and Karl Marx); societally (having worked for the poor in many and varied places).
- ^ an internationally San Francisco based law firm which had represented D-Q University pro bono in its decades long legal struggles
External links
- The Indian Education Act of 1972
- David Risling Papers at Special Collections Dept., University Library, University of California, Davis