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Mitchell Hamline’s Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute debuts certificate

Posted: December 16, 2021
The Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn., recently won faculty approval for a new certificate. Certificates are focused tracks within the J.D. program to allow law students to specialize in a field of law and graduate with practice-ready skills. The Native American Law and Sovereignty Certificate …

Mitchell Hamline’s Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute debuts certificate

Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

Posted: October 11, 2021
“Seeing these Native 1Ls is a sign that we are still here and are thriving in spite of what was done to us.” Weston Jones chose to attend Mitchell Hamline because it occupies his people’s traditional lands. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

Mitchell Hamline hosts community remembrance honoring George Floyd

Posted: May 26, 2021
A vigil to honor the life of George Floyd drew about 200 people to campus Tuesday evening. Members of the Mitchell Hamline community as well as the public at large gathered on the front lawn to mark the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder at the hands of police. The event began at 8 pm, the …

Mitchell Hamline hosts community remembrance honoring George Floyd

Mitchell Hamline professor Angelique EagleWoman sworn in as tribal Supreme Court justice

Posted: November 24, 2020
Mitchell Hamline professor Angelique EagleWoman spent Election Day making history – not by winning office but by entering it. Donning a mask with her 16-year old son nearby, EagleWoman swore the oath to become the newest associate justice on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Supreme Court of Appeals. The ceremony happened on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South …

Mitchell Hamline professor Angelique EagleWoman sworn in as tribal Supreme Court justice

Marking 30 years of Native American Heritage Month

Posted: October 29, 2020
November is Native American Heritage Month, an ideal time to remember the historical, political, intellectual, and legal contributions of Indigenous peoples in North America and specifically in the United States. Tribal nations entered into nation-to-nation treaty agreements with the newly formed United States in “perpetual peace and friendship” from the late 1700s through the late …

Marking 30 years of Native American Heritage Month