Lewis Gurwitz, at 56; lawyer, advocate for Native Americans

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

A graveside service will be held today for Lewis S. Gurwitz of Winthrop, a lawyer specializing in Native American affairs, who died Sunday, apparently of a heart attack, in Edmonton, Alberta. He was 56.

As a defense attorney, Mr. Gurwitz specialized in what he called "political trials."

He had been associated with the American Indian Movement since 1973, when the group occupied the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation near Wounded Knee, S.D. He was also a member of the defense team for Leonard Peltier, the Ojibway Indian convicted of murdering two FBI agents on the reservation in 1975.

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