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SHANE THIN ELK – Associate
Ft. Washakie, Wyoming
phone: 307.335.2049
fax: 307.332.3055
email: email me

Mr. Thin Elk joined the firm in 2004.

TRIBAL AFFILIATION: Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota)

PRACTICE AREAS: Federal Indian law; tribal sovereignty & self-determination; economic development; trial & appellate advocacy; gaming law; administrative law

ADMISSIONS: United States District Court for the District of South Dakota; South Dakota Supreme Court; United States District Court for the District of Nebraska; United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; The Court of Federal Claims; Wind River Tribal Court; and the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians Tribal Court

EDUCATION: University of South Dakota School of Law (J.D., Sterling Honors, 2003); University of South Dakota (B.S., Psychology, 2000)

PRIOR LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Law clerk to Chief Justice David Gilbertson of the South Dakota Supreme Court (2003-2004); Instructor, University of South Dakota, Department of Indian Studies/Political Science (2003)

TEACHING POSITIONS: Instructor, University of South Dakota, Department of Indian Studies/Political Science

Mr. Thin Elk joined the Omaha office of Monteau & Peebles in September 2004. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Thin Elk clerked for Chief Justice David Gilbertson of the South Dakota Supreme Court. Graduating with Sterling Honors from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 2003, he was also honored with the Gavel Award as the outstanding student of his class. While in law school, he was active in the Native American Law Students Association and R.D. Hurd Pro Bono Society, as well as serving as Developmental and Water Law Editor for the Great Plains Natural Resources Journal. During his final semester of law school, Mr. Thin Elk taught an undergraduate course entitled “Indian Law & Justice” for the University of South Dakota.

A strong believer in tribal sovereignty and self-determination, Mr. Thin Elk focuses much of his practice on litigation as well as on economic development issues and tribal code drafting. Since April of 2006, Mr. Thin Elk has been privileged to serve as the in-house counsel for the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, where he has handled a wide-array of legal issues for the Tribe.