Lulu G. Stillman

Lulu G. Stillman (1881/1882 – July 4, 1969) was an American advocate for Native Americans. She worked as a stenographer and researcher to produce the Everett report, which concluded that the Iroquois had a legal right to of land in New York, in the 1920s and preserved the report after it was rejected by the New York State Assembly. She subsequently became a prominent advocate on behalf of the Iroquois Nation, helping to defeat the Indian Reorganization Act in New York.

Biography Stillman was born to Anthony Glominski and Louisa VonKirchfield Glominski in Brooklyn, New York. In her later life, Stillman lived in Troy, New York.

From 1919 to 1922 she was the stenographer and chief researcher of the Everett Commission under Edward A. Everett. Historian Laurence M. Hauptman credits the report, which concluded that the Iroquois had a legal right to of land in New York as a result of treaties signed in the late 18th century, as being "largely the work of Lulu Stillman". The report was only signed by Everett himself, never formally submitted to the state legislature, and was not widely published or distributed. Stillman typed a copy of the commission's minutes that Everett kept with himself. She preserved copies for the duplication of the minutes as well as its conclusions.

After the commission was ended in 1922, Stillman continued her advocacy with and for the Iroquois.

Also in 1934, C. C. Daniels, the special assistant to New York Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, met with Stillman. He then sent his nephew, James Griffith, to talk to her as well. Griffith made three copies of the Everett report that Stillman had preserved from September to November, adding a five-page introduction. Copies were sent to the United States Department of the Interior and to the United States Department of Justice. Both copies were misplaced or lost until at least the early 1970s, while Stillman kept careful track of hers and did not loan the copy out.

Stillman also worked for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a secretary or bookkeeper.

Personal life Stillman was married to Ernest E. Stillman, a dentist, around 1904, until she applied for divorce in 1921. Stillman attended the Christ Methodist Church. She died in Troy on July 4, 1969, and was buried at Oakwood Cemetery.