WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

WELCOME TO THE
NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BAR
ASSOCIATION

 

~ CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF SERVICE ~ 1973-2013

(click above to read about the 40th Anniversary event and view a slideshow)

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2013 Annual Meeting
L to R:  Robert Saunooke, Director; Gabe Galanda, Director; Linda Benally, President-Elect; Mary Smith, President; Patty Ferguson-Bohnee, Immediate Past President; Lawrence Baca, Treasurer; Thomas Weathers, Secretary; Doug Nash, Director; and John Echo Hawk

Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy    

We are pleased to announce the launching of the COLLABORATIVE BAR LEADERSHIP ACADEMY (the CBLA OR Leadership Academy), a joint initiative of the American Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, National Bar Association, and the National Native American Bar Association.

The CBLA is a coordinated effort to strengthen the pipeline of diverse bar association leaders by providing leadership training and professional development programs which will benefit current and future leaders, the bar association community, and the legal profession overall.  The CBLA marks the first substantive program resulting from a collaboration of the five sponsoring bar associations and lays the foundation for further collaborative efforts to foster diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.We invite you to apply for the first class to be held June 27-28, 2013 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  A registration fee of $100 will be charged to confirmed participants.  Please submit your signed application no later than 8:00 pm EST on Thursday, February 28, 2013.  Applicants will receive notice of the Selection Committee’s decision by the week of April 15, 2013.  We look forward to receiving your application!  Please note that the application deadline has been extended.

 

The Mission of NNABA
 
Representing Indian Nations not just Indian Lawyers. NNABA shares many of the same goals of diversity and increased understanding of our communities’ unique cultural and legal issues with minority bar associations. However, most of our lawyers are both U.S. citizens and citizens of their respective Tribal nations. Our members, therefore, also share the communal responsibility, either directly or indirectly, of protecting the governmental sovereignty of the more than 560 independent Native American Tribal governments in the United States.

History of the Formation of NNABA. The National Native American Bar Association began in 1973 as the American Indian Lawyers Association. After a few name changes (American Indian Bar Association to Native American Bar Association), in 1980 we reorganized and developed a chapter system for state Indian bar associations, and we became the National Native American Bar Association. Each of the Chapters has a vote on the NNABA Board of Directors. As the name Native American implies, NNABA represents the interests of all populations indigenous to the lands which are now collectively the United States : American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.