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Angelique EagleWoman
Associate Professor of Law


Native American Law, Native Natural Resources Law, Civil Procedure


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  • Stanford University, B.A. Political Science
  • University of North Dakota School of Law, J.D. with Distinction
  • University of Tulsa College of Law, L.L.M. American Indian and Indigenous Law with Honors 

 

Professor EagleWoman brings a diverse background that includes tribal economic development, legal code development, litigation, criminal law and scholarly interest in international indigenous law to her work at the University of Idaho Law. Most recently, she received her L.L.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Studies in 2004 from the University of Tulsa College of Law. Professor EagleWoman teaches in the areas of Native American Law, Native Natural Resources Law and Civil Procedure.

She has served several terms as a Board member of the National Native American Bar Association and believes in staying firmly tied to the Native legal field. She also maintains membership in the Bar Associations of the District of Columbia, Oklahoma, North Dakota and South Dakota.  Highlights of her legal career include serving as General Counsel to the Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, working as an associate attorney with Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson in Washington, D.C. and serving as Tribal Public Defender for the Kaw Nation and the Ponca Nation, both of Oklahoma.

Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin)) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation.

Professor EagleWoman was formerly a member of the law faculty at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and held a visitorship position at the University of Kansas in the KU School of Law and the Indigenous Nations Program.  In the spring of 2008, she was selected as the recipient of the KU Center for Indigenous Nation’s Crystal Eagle Award for showing leadership and dedication toward helping community members or students within indigenous communities.

Selected Publications
• “Fencing Off the Eagle and the Condor, Border Politics, and Indigenous Peoples,” 33 Natural Resources & Environment, Vol No. 23 Issue No. 2 (Fall 2008).

• “The Philosophy of Colonization underlying Taxation Imposed Upon Tribal Nations within the United States,” 43 Tulsa Law Review 43 (2007).

• "BIA, Federal Lands, State Tribal Lands, in Handbook of the American Indians,” 86 (Smithsonian Institution 2008).

• "Tribal Sovereignty and Economic Development, in Handbook of the American Indians 129 (Smithsonian Institution 2008) (with Taylor Keen).

• Tribal Values of Taxation within the Tribalist Economic Theory , University of Kansas Indigenous Nations Journal Vol. 6 No. 1 Spring 2008.

• "Re-establishing the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate's Reservation Boundaries: Building a Legal Rationale from Current International Law,” 29 American Indian Law Review 239 (2004/2005).

•  "Strate v. A-1 Contractors: Intrusion into the Sovereign Domain of Native Nations,” 74 North Dakota Law Review 711 (1998).

 

 

 

 
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