{"id":9939,"date":"2020-03-18T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/tallbear-wins-lawsuit-against-department-of-energy\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:14:44","slug":"tallbear-wins-lawsuit-against-department-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/tallbear-wins-lawsuit-against-department-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallbear wins lawsuit against Department of Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jody TallBear, a Native American attorney in the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 Jody TallBear, a Native American attorney in the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, reached a $200,000 settlement agreement with the United States Department of Energy in connection with Title VII claims she brought against Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
\nThe settlement compensates Ms. TallBear for the retaliation she faced after raising concerns about the use of the Washington professional football team\u2019s name and mascot in the work place. As a Native American, Ms. TallBear was deeply and personally offended by a name that celebrates the genocide of her ancestors and a mascot image that strips Native American people of their humanity today. As a leader in DOE\u2019s diversity and civil rights office, Ms. TallBear took it upon herself to educate her coworkers and other federal employees about the history of the term and its effect on Native Americans who have to hear it.
\nInstead of encouraging such activities, the Department\u2019s senior most civil rights official and an Obama appointee, ordered Ms. TallBear to stop and subsequently stripped Ms. TallBear of her lead position on tribal affairs and energy policy. This appointee continued her efforts to isolate Ms. TallBear by denying detail offers of other DOE offices to utilize Ms. TallBear\u2019s expertise in Native American affairs. Ms. TallBear had quickly risen through the ranks as a valued member of the Department, only to have been halted in her career track because she spoke up about the Washington professional football team\u2019s mascot.
\n\u201cWhen I came to Washington DC in 2009 to work on tribal energy policy, I never imagined that I would become embroiled in a civil rights lawsuit related to the Washington football team mascot,\u201d said Ms. TallBear. \u201cBut the blatant hypocrisy I witnessed in working side-by-side with diversity and civil rights experts that carved out exemptions for racism against Native Americans in the workplace became too much to bear. To be able to look myself in the mirror, I had to speak up.\u201d
\nIn addition to the monetary relief, the Department has agreed to restore 100 hours of sick leave for Ms. TallBear and pay for her attendance at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, VA.
\n\u201cMs. TallBear was brave enough to voice an unpopular opinion about how it feels to show up to work where there are constant reminders of America\u2019s persistent racism towards Native Americans and paid the price\u201d said Dennis Corkery, an attorney for Ms. TallBear. \u201cThis settlement should be a reminder to all employers in our region that the civil rights education that Ms. TallBear engaged in should be encouraged, not punished.\u201d
\nMs. TallBear was represented by the Washington Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and pro bono by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP.<\/p>\n

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Jody TallBear, a Native American attorney in the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity. WASHINGTON \u2013 Jody TallBear, a Native American attorney in the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, reached a $200,000 settlement agreement with the United States Department of Energy in connection <\/p>\n

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