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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

Students, professor contribute to Supreme Court case over tribal police authority

Posted: June 1, 2021
After finals ended last winter, Mitchell Hamline students Ge-Waden Dunkley, Annika Sanora, and Alia Hawkins got to work. They weren’t getting a head start on the spring semester but rather answering a call from Professor Colette Routel, seeking help on a brief she was co-writing in a case over tribal sovereignty. On Tuesday, that hard …

Students, professor contribute to Supreme Court case over tribal police authority

Retiring Dakota Co. Attorney Jim Backstrom ‘78 encourages public service

Posted: January 27, 2021
Every time James Backstrom ‘78 signs his name, he makes sure to include his middle initial so he can remember his father. Clifford Backstrom was a firefighter for more than three decades and passed a duty to serve the public to his son. In February, the son of Clifford Backstrom will retire just after his …

Retiring Dakota Co. Attorney Jim Backstrom ‘78 encourages public service

Indian Law Program renamed Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute

Posted: October 12, 2020
Mitchell Hamline’s Indian Law Program will now be known as the Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute. The commitment to this area of law has deep roots in both of Mitchell Hamline’s legacy schools, with Co-director Colette Routel as the longest-serving steward of the program since it began in 2009. The change helps highlight the …

Indian Law Program renamed Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute

Mitchell Hamline professor’s brief cited in historic Supreme Court ruling

Posted: July 13, 2020
Thursday’s landmark decision on treaty rights from the U.S. Supreme Court included input from Mitchell Hamline’s Indian Law Impact Litigation Clinic. The ruling, McGirt v. Oklahoma, affirmed that a large part of eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation for the Creek Nation, because Congress never passed legislation that explicitly abrogated the reservation created through an 1833 …

Mitchell Hamline professor’s brief cited in historic Supreme Court ruling