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Prairie Island general counsel helps tribe protect reservation, expand governance

Posted: January 21, 2021
‘I want to help them self-determine’ Jessie Stomski Seim ’08 remembers her dad driving down St. Paul’s historic Summit Avenue, admiring the Victorian homes and dropping hints while passing William Mitchell College of Law’s iconic building. “‘You would be a great lawyer,’” she recalls him saying. “‘Wouldn’t it be cool if you went there?’” Those …

Prairie Island general counsel helps tribe protect reservation, expand governance

Category: Alumni, Feature, News, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tag: alumni, Indian Law, Jessie Stomski Seim, Prairie Island Indian Community, tribal reservations

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

Category: Feature, indian law, News, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tag: Angelique EagleWoman, Indian Law, Native Americans, tribal reservations

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

Category: indian law, News, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tag: Angelique EagleWoman, Colette Routel, commentary, Indian Law, Native Americans, tribal reservations

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

Category: indian law, News Tag: Colette Routel, Indian Law, Native Americans, SCOTUS, tribal reservations



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