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. 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, Tribal Nation Economics & 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.
Author of:
A Constitutional Crisis When the U.S. Supreme Court Acts in a Legislative Manner? An Essay Offering a Perspective on Judicial Activism in Federal Indian Law and Federal Civil Procedure Pleading Standards, 114 Penn St. L. Rev. Penn Statim 41 (2010).