Frank Pommersheim
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Frank Pommersheim is the author of Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life and Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution. He is also a poet whose most recent chapbook is Idleness of a Recluse Poet. An Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of South Dakota School of Law, Pommersheim won several teaching awards during his academic career, and in 2022 he received the Federal Bar Association Lawrence Baca Lifetime Achievement Award in Federal Indian Law.
Featured title: Idleness of a Recluse Poet
Website: https://www.usd.edu/research-and-faculty/faculty-and-staff/frank-pommersheim
FRANK’S EVENTS:
- Friday, Sept. 20 @ 2:00 p.m. – A Reading by the USD Law School Poets – The Oscar, Multi-Use South (195A), Brookings
- Friday, Sept. 20 @ 4:30 p.m. – Author Signing Event – The Oscar, Fishback Studio Theater (154), Brookings