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Native law students receive MNABA scholarships

Posted: December 15, 2025
The Minnesota Native American Bar Association (MNABA) celebrates student accomplishments and awards scholarships to upper-year law students at their annual Fall Feast. This year, all nine scholarships were given to students at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Mitchell Hamline offers a dedicated path of study rooted in the Native American Law and Sovereignty (NALS) Institute …

Native law students receive MNABA scholarships

Recruitment efforts put Mitchell Hamline first in the nation in Native enrollment

Posted: November 25, 2024
Native students are vastly underrepresented in the legal profession and in law school. Recognizing this disparity, Mitchell Hamline has put intentional effort in recent years into developing opportunities for Native Americans to access a legal education, starting from before they even step foot on campus. As a result, Native enrollment has been climbing each year …

Recruitment efforts put Mitchell Hamline first in the nation in Native enrollment

Professor Tahdooahnippah elected chairman of the Comanche Nation

Posted: June 11, 2024
As the weight of the ceremonial blanket settled in on Forrest Tahdooahnippah’s shoulder at his recent swearing-in ceremony, so too did the weight of responsibility. “This is a huge opportunity and a very humbling experience to have the trust and faith of 17,000 Comanches put into my hands,” he told attendees at the May 24 …

Professor Tahdooahnippah elected chairman of the Comanche Nation

Professor Tahdooahnippah featured in NPR story at psychedelic studies conference

Posted: June 26, 2023
Professor Forrest Tahdooahnippah (Comanche Nation) was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition in a story about a conference in Denver last week where he spoke about the potential unintended consequences of legalizing the kinds of psychoactive plants used to make psychedelic drugs. The event, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies 2023 conference, was organized after the …

Professor Tahdooahnippah featured in NPR story at psychedelic studies conference

Professor EagleWoman weighs in on Supreme Court’s ICWA ruling

Posted: June 16, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act in a 7-2 opinion. Professor Angelique EagleWoman (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), director of Mitchell Hamline’s Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute, had long followed the cases through the courts that ended up at the Supreme Court. She offered legal analysis in several media …

Professor EagleWoman weighs in on Supreme Court’s ICWA ruling