It was touching, here in Los Alamos, to hear civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Jim Lawson commend Beata and her community, encouraging them to grow their numbers steadily, one by one, while earnestly asking them to request and rely on any help that he could offer. Martin Luther King once called Lawson the leading U.S. strategist of nonviolence. Lawson had developed successive civil rights campaigns, in the sixties and seventies. He taught growing numbers of black and white students how to organize sit-ins and other forms of nonviolent action to confront the immorality of segregation. Lawson said that respecting Native Americans and acknowledging the theft of their land should be integral to the current civil rights movement.