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Speakers<\/h2>\n
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Professor John P. LaVelle (Santee Sioux Nation)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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John P. LaVelle<\/strong> is a professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law and the director of UNM\u2019s Law and Indigenous Peoples Program. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law. He serves as a member of the board of directors of Native American alumni of Harvard University. Professor LaVelle served on the executive editorial board for the 2005 and current editions of Cohen\u2019s Handbook of Federal Indian Law<\/em>, the comprehensive treatise in the field of Indian law. He also has chaired the Association of American Law Schools section on Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples and co\u2011chaired the Native American Faculty Council at the University of New Mexico. Professor LaVelle is an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux Nation and an associate justice of the Santee Sioux Nation Supreme Court, his tribe\u2019s highest judicial tribunal. His law review article Of Reservation Boundary Lines and Judicial Battle Lines<\/em> was recently published in the Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance<\/em>, based at UCLA School of Law. Download \u2018Of Reservation Boundary Lines and Judicial Battle Lines\u2019<\/a>. Professor LaVelle resides in Albuquerque with his husband Monte Deer Carden, an artist, actor, and enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Professor Kekek Stark (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe)<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Kekek Stark<\/strong> is an assistant professor of law with the Alexander Blewitt III School of Law at the University of Montana where he is the co-director of the following programs: the Indian Law Program; the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic; and the American Indian Governance and Policy Institute. He is a Turtle Mountain Ojibwe and member of the Bizhiw (Lynx) Clan. Kekek is a former president of the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association, a forum Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and alumnus of Hamline University School of Law. Kekek worked as an assistant professor with the American Indian Studies department at the University of Minnesota Duluth as well as an adjunct faculty member at several institutions. Kekek served as the attorney general for the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, as a policy analyst in the division of intergovernmental affairs for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, and as a policy analyst for the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. As a practitioner of Indigenous law, Kekek has firsthand experience in training students in how to work productively with Indigenous principles and procedures. Along the way, he has helped build institutions grounded in Anishinaabe law and has helped students and communities forge better relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous institutions and peoples, strengthening tribal sovereignty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Panelists<\/h2>\n
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Ojibwe legal traditions panel: \u201cAnishinaabe Legal Traditions Guiding Modern Day Justice: a Best Practices Approach for Tribal Courts in Ojibwe Country\u201d<\/h3>\n

Judge Paul Day<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Chief Judge Paul W. Day<\/strong> is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and grew up in Walker, MN. After completing high school, he attended St. Cloud State University where he received his Bachelor\u2019s Degree. He went on to receive his Juris Doctorate from the University of Minnesota Law School in June 1978.<\/p>\n

Chief Judge Day has quite an extensive career in Law, first being in private practice right out of law school. He then became an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, was Sr. Counsel for Honeywell, Inc. for 11 years and then became a District Judge of the Tribal Court for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in 2001. Prior to becoming Leech Lake\u2019s Chief Judge in 2012, he was the Executive Director for Anishinabe Legal Services.<\/p>\n

Chief Judge Day is a keeper of the family big drum, sweat lodge and pipe. Judge Day incorporates traditional ceremonies as a means of reuniting children and families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Judge Mary Ringhand (Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Judge Mary Ringhand<\/strong> currently serves as the chief judge of the Red Lake Nation Tribal Court since 2015. She obtained her juris doctorate degree from University of Minnesota Law School \u201993. Has worked in various positions in law, higher education and tribal administration and is actively involved in community. Previous legal work includes interning at the Legal Aid Society in South Minneapolis on public housing and Indian Child Welfare Act issues. Research on tribal matters, Anishinabe Legal Services advocating in social security disability and civil cases. At the State of Minnesota Higher Education Services Office created statewide programming to provide information and access to higher education. She believes strongly in life-long learning and likes being involved in Ojibwemowin language preservation. Becoming a more fluent speaker is a personal goal. Encouraging higher education, community customs and traditions and indigenous values awareness for our people is healing and will increase the strength of our nations into the future. Judge Ringhand is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians and lives in Ponemah, MN.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Judge Megan Treuer (White Earth Nation)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Judge Megan Treuer<\/strong>, the daughter of a citizen of the White Earth Nation and an Austrian Jew and holocaust survivor, has spent the majority of her life living in the Leech Lake community in Northern Minnesota and now resides in the Fond du Lac area. Judge Treuer has devoted her legal career to fighting for the rights and well-being of Native Americans, first as an attorney representing indigent tribal members in civil and criminal cases and now as the chief judge for the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. Judge Treuer also serves as an associate judge for White Earth Band of Ojibwe.<\/p>\n

Judge Treuer earned her B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Judge Treuer completed her first year of law school at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, then earned her J.D. from Hamline University School of Law in 2005. Judge Treuer immediately returned home to Leech Lake and began working at Anishinabe Legal Services (ALS) where she represented indigent Native Americans from the Leech Lake and Red Lake Reservations. In 2007, Judge Treuer went to work at the Regional Native Public Defense Corporation (RNPDC) as a staff attorney defending tribal members in criminal cases in state district court in northern Minnesota. Judge Treuer became the executive director of RNPDC in 2009.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Judge Treuer joined the bench at Leech Lake and since has performed judicial duties there as well as Bois Forte Tribal Court, Fond du Lac Tribal Court, Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Court and White Earth Tribal Court. Judge Treuer is admitted to the Minnesota bar and is a career-long member of the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association.<\/p>\n

When not on duty, Judge Treuer studies the Ojibwe Language at Fond du Lac Tribal College and enjoys spending time with her family (Rebekah, Elias, Matilda and Xavier).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dakota legal traditions panel: “Being a Good Relative as Legal and Ethical Principles”<\/h3>\n
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Carly Bad Heart Bull (Bdewakantunwan Dakota\/Muskogee Creek and a citizen of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe in South Dakota)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Carly Bad Heart Bull<\/strong> (Bdewakantunwan Dakota\/Muskogee Creek and a citizen of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe in South Dakota) is the Executive Director of the Native Ways Federation (NWF), a national nonprofit founded by seven of the most reputable Native-led nonprofits in the country. NWF\u2019s mission is to activate and expand informed giving to nonprofits in Indian country through donor education and advocacy. She came to NWF from the Bush Foundation, where she served as the Native Nations Activities Manager since 2014. Her service area encompassed Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and the 23 tribal nations within the region.<\/p>\n

Carly has a background in law and was previously an Assistant County Attorney for Hennepin County Attorney\u2019s Office (Minnesota) in its child protection division. She has worked at the ICWA Law Center and clerked for Justice Anne McKeig when she was in family court. Carly also taught the Dakota language to early childhood students in South Minneapolis. She currently serves as vice chairwoman of the board of local nonprofit and Indigenous farm, Dream of Wild Health, and is also on the board of Native Americans in Philanthropy, a national organization with a mission to promote equitable and effective philanthropy in Native communities.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Carly was named a Minnesota Attorney of the Year, for her instrumental work on reclaiming the Dakota name of Minneapolis\u2019 largest lake (formerly Lake Calhoun) to Bde Maka Ska. In 2019, she was selected by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as a Community Leadership Network Fellow, a program for leaders across the country working to create transformational change toward a more equitable society for all.<\/p>\n

Carly holds a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, and an Associate of Arts degree from Minneapolis Community and Technical College.<\/p>\n

Carly lives in Bdeota Otunwe (Minneapolis, or City of Many Lakes) with her young son Quill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Professor Angelique EagleWoman (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Angelique W. EagleWoman<\/strong>\u00a0(Wambdi A. Was\u2019teWinyan<\/em>) has served as a pro tempore tribal judge in several tribal court systems at the trial and appellate levels. One of the highlights of her career was serving as general counsel for her tribe, the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate. She has taught in the areas of Aboriginal legal issues, Indigenous legal traditions, tribal nation economics and law, Native American law, Native American natural resources law, contracts, the business of law, and civil procedure. She presents and publishes on topics involving tribal-based economics, Indigenous sovereignty, international Indigenous principles, and the quality of life for Indigenous peoples. She has received numerous awards in legal academia and has been a frequent speaker on issues of diversity, inclusion, and professionalism. At the University of Idaho College of Law, she established the Native American law emphasis program and graduated 33 students over seven years. She also served as dean of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University and was the first Indigenous law dean in Canada. She also serves as a board member for the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association (MAIBA).<\/div>\n
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Darlene St. Clair (Lower Sioux Indian Community)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Iyekiyapiwi\u019e Darlene St. Clair<\/strong> is an associate professor at Saint Cloud State University where she teaches American Indian studies and directs the Institute for Native Education Studies. Her work focuses on several areas: Dakota Studies; Native Nations of Minnesota; the integration of Native cultures, histories, and languages into curricula and educational institutions; the arts and cultural expressions of Native peoples; Dakota places and sacred sites; and anti-racist pedagogy. She is Bdewaka\u019etu\u019ewa\u019e Dakota and a citizen of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speakers Professor John P. LaVelle (Santee Sioux Nation) John P. LaVelle is a professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law and the director of UNM\u2019s Law and Indigenous Peoples Program. He received his A.B. from Harvard College and his J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law. He serves as … <\/p>\n

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