George McCauley is a citizen of the Omaha Nation in Macy, Nebraska. He graduated from Flandreau Indian Boarding School in 1971. He came to Minneapolis, Minn. at the end of that summer and has lived there ever since. He has been sober for the last 47 years. In his early sobriety he got a job in the graphics department at The Red School House which was an AIM survival school in Sant Paul, Minnesota. After running the Food Shelf at the Division of Indian Work for 11 years, he took a job at the Minneapolis American Indian Center where he worked with a team in the India Child Welfare Act (ICWA) program to design and implement the first web-based case management system and court monitoring system for ICWA Tribal workers and ICWA Social Workers across the nation to collect data on ICWA compliance.
George also has a passion for acting. He has been in several productions including plays, interactive education videos, independent films and a show on the History Channel. He was also an extra in Martin Scorsese’s film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which will be released widely on Oct. 20. George has been happily married to Sandy White Hawk for 21 years. Together they have 4children, 6 grandchildren, and one great grandbaby. They live in Shakopee, Minnesota.
To learn more about George, read his full biography.
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September 13, 2023
Presentation: A Conversation With George McCauley, Indian Boarding School Survivor
7 - 8 p.m. Central time
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