Institute Leadership
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Angelique W. EagleWoman (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) Director Angelique W. EagleWoman (Wambdi A. Was’teWinyan) began her career in legal academia in 2006 as a law professor at Hamline University School of Law, a predecessor school to Mitchell Hamline. As conditions did not allow for the establishment of a program focused on Native American law, she started on a full circle journey that brought her back to Mitchell Hamline in 2018. In the fall of 2021, Professor EagleWoman realized the dream of stewarding the Native American Law and Sovereignty (NALS) Institute in the Dakota homelands by becoming director. During her legal academic journey, EagleWoman established the Native American Law emphasis program at the University of Idaho College of Law in 2008, and in 2016 she became the first Indigenous law dean in Canada when she assumed the deanship of the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She has taught several times in the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives, as she is dedicated to increasing the number of Native American attorneys in the country. She has received numerous awards for her teaching, scholarship, and contributions to supporting diversity in higher education. In October 2022, she was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Sisseton Wahpeton Supreme Court, after previously serving as an associate justice since November 2020. She is the only member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Dakota) of the Lake Traverse Reservation to sit on this court. As a Dakota woman, having the opportunity to teach the law on Dakota homelands in St. Paul is especially meaningful to her. EagleWoman is a nationally known expert in the field of Native American law. She presents and publishes on topics including Tribal-based economics, Indigenous sovereignty, international Indigenous legal principles, treaty rights, Tribal court jurisprudence, and the evolving relations between Tribal Nations and the United States. She is the author of the casebook, NATIVE AMERICAN LAW: TRIBAL NATIONS AND THE UNITED STATES RELATIONS CASES AND MATERIALS (1st ed. 2025). She is co-author of the book MASTERING NATIVE AMERICAN LAW (3rd ed. 2024)) with Stacy Leeds (Cherokee Nation), dean and professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and the first Native American woman dean in the United States (University of Arkansas Law). EagleWoman attended Stanford University, B.A. in Political Science; University of North Dakota School of Law, J.D. with distinction; and the University of Tulsa College of Law, LL.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Law with honors. She is a citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Dakota) of the Lake Traverse Reservation and from the Thunderbeings Clan.
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Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute
Two of Professor EagleWoman’s recent publications include:
♦ NATIVE AMERICAN LAW: TRIBAL NATIONS AND THE UNITED STATES RELATIONS CASES AND MATERIALS (1st ed. 2025) ♦ MASTERING NATIVE AMERICAN LAW (3rd ed. 2024) co-authored with Dean and Professor Stacy Leeds
Contact information: NALS Program office: 651–695–7723 NALS.Institute@mitchellhamline.edu Director, Angelique EagleWoman Office: 651-290-6438
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