Celebrating Legal Trailblazers
Learn more about past and present trailblazers that have impacted the legal field.
Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month
November is National Native American Heritage Month that recognizes the significant contributions of Indigenous people in the U.S. and provides a platform to share their culture, traditions, music, crafts, dance, ways and concepts of life.
A Brief History
On August 3, 1990, President of the United States George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month, thereafter commonly referred to as Native American Heritage Month. First sponsor of "American Indian Heritage Month" was through the American Indian Heritage Foundation by the founder Pale Moon Rose, of Cherokee-Seneca descent and an adopted Ojibwa, whose Indian name Win-yan-sa-han-wi "Princess of the Pale Moon" was given to her by Alfred Michael "Chief" Venne
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Excluded and Alone: Examining the Experiences of Native American Women in the Law and a Path Towards Equity
View the newly published study from a collaboration between the ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession and the National Native American Bar Association, looking specifically at the experiences of Native women in the legal profession - and a call to action to better support Native women in the profession.
ABA 21-Day National Native American Heritage Equity Habit Building Challenge ©
The Challenge includes short daily assignments to become more aware, compassionate, constructive, engaged in the quest for equity, and to learn more about the Native American communities.
National Native American Bar Association
NNABA shares many of the same goals of diversity and increased understanding of unique cultural and legal issues with minority bar associations.