Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.
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Long known to the indigenous peoples of the region, and in fact raided and at times occupied by the Blackfoot, the Big Bend is traditional territory of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people, but also claimed by the Ktunaxa.
the Ktunaxa Kinbasket Tribal Council, a tribal council linking the band governments of the Ktunaxa people and including the Shuswap Indian Band, a Secwepemc group
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the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, an organization comprising the governments of the Ktunaxa people of Montana and Idaho and the Selisch people