The Minnesota American Indian Bar Association (MAIBA) commends the recent announcement of Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland to the National Congress of American Indians for a federal investigation on cemeteries and policies of the federal Indian boarding schools. In her Secretarial memo dated June 22, 2021, she stated the history spanning over one hundred years…
On behalf of Minnesota Women Lawyers (MWL) and the Minnesota American Indian Bar Association (MAIBA), we join our community in grieving the killing of twenty-year-old Daunte Wright, who died on April 11, 2021 after being shot by police during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Today, our organizations had collaborated to present a session focused on Savanna’s Act:…
May 29, 2020FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The Minnesota American Indian Bar Association (“MAIBA”) condemns the actions of Minneapolis Police Department Officers Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J. Alexander Kueng that led to the murder of George Floyd and calls for action to be taken against all of the officers by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office. Sadly,…
