Washington Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis is the nation’s first Indigenous state supreme court justice.
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Washington state Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis is no stranger to history.
In 2020, she became the first Native American to be sworn in as a justice on any state’s supreme court.
Bullied as a child, Montoya-Lewis, said she was inspired to fight for justice by her great-grandmother, Ki-Ot-Se.
“The things that happened to me were painful and sad, but they weren’t dehumanizing in the way that I know she experienced because I can see it in the pictures,” said Montoya-Lewis.
In 1880, Montoya-Lewis’s
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