Peter d’Errico graduated from Yale Law School in 1968. He was an attorney at Dinébe’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahii, Navajo Legal Services, in Shiprock, 1968-1970. He was a founding professor of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and taught there from 1970-2002.
He has litigated on behalf of Native prisoners’ freedom of religion; Mashpee Wampanoag fishing rights; Western Shoshone land rights; and consulted on other Indigenous cases. From 2010-2017, he was a columnist for Indian Country Today Media Network. His book, Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples. He blogs on substack.Together he and Steve are working on a new film Desecrating the Sacred.
