Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe

Abby Abinanti, the first native woman member of the California State Bar, recounts her life, from her youth in Humboldt County, her career as a lawyer and court commissioner in San Francisco and her role as chief judge for the Yurok Tribe. She was interviewed on February 21, 2019, in Klamath by Mary Louise Frampton, director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies at the University of California, Davis Law School.


Transcript of Part 1


Transcript of Part 2


Transcript of Part 3

For more information about the Yurok Tribe and issues mentioned in this video oral history:

To learn more about Yurok tribal culture: http://www.yuroktribe.org/culture/

To see a map of the Yurok ancestral lands: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Styler/index.html?appid=dc792d72fa1e43c49954e0ea21eae670

To learn more about D-Q University: https://localwiki.org/davis/D-Q_University

To read more about Fay Stender: https://www.cwl.org/page/FayStender

To learn more about dam removal on the Klamath: http://www.klamathrenewal.org/

This project was made possible in part by a grant from the California State Library.

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