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Recent Mitchell Hamline grad elected first female chief of her First Nations community

Posted: September 2, 2022
Angela Levasseur, who graduated from Mitchell Hamline earlier this summer, will become the first female chief of her First Nation community in Canada. In an election held in the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation over two days last month, Levasseur received nearly 500 votes, besting three other candidates. “Between myself and my opponents, I was very surprised …

Recent Mitchell Hamline grad elected first female chief of her First Nations community

Alumni Association names three newest award winners

Posted: August 30, 2022
A tribal general counsel working to raise the profile of Native people and their sovereignty, a Florida judge who teaches about baseball and the law, and a defense attorney working for justice reform are being honored with this year’s alumni awards from the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Association. Jessie Stomski ‘08 is receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award …

Alumni Association names three newest award winners

Alum helps secure historic opioid settlement for Tribal Nations

Posted: March 22, 2022
A Mitchell Hamline alum was at the center of historic tentative agreements Tribal Nations made in February with three major drug distributors and with Johnson & Johnson. Tim Purdon ‘94 has been a partner at Robins Kaplan since leaving his position as U.S. attorney for North Dakota in 2015. The settlement, totaling $665 million, will …

Alum helps secure historic opioid settlement for Tribal Nations

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Forrest Tahdooahnippah as an assistant professor of law

Posted: March 15, 2022
Forrest Tahdooahnippah had heard stories of his father’s activism for Native Americans and Indian Country growing up. But it wasn’t until he did some Internet sleuthing that he learned his father was a lead plaintiff in an important case in Colorado in the 1970s that restored tuition waivers for American Indian students at a college …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes Forrest Tahdooahnippah as an assistant professor of law

Expert Q&A: Professor EagleWoman explains important ICWA case heading to Supreme Court

Posted: March 7, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court last week agreed to hear an important case that could determine the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law that aims to protect against the separation of Native American families. The case, Haaland v. Brackeen, is a consolidation of several cases, one of which centers around a couple …

Expert Q&A: Professor EagleWoman explains important ICWA case heading to Supreme Court