2025 NNABA Annual Meeting

The National Native American Bar Association (NNABA) will host its annual meeting on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at the Okana Resort in Oklahoma City, OK.  The meeting agenda, sponsor packets, and site to buy a ticket to the dinner can be accessed using the buttons below.

Event FAQs: 

• Will NNABA be at FedBar in April? As always, many NNABA members will be at the FedBar Indian Law Conference, but NNABA will not be hosting any formal programing at FedBar.

• Will NNABA be charging for the annual meeting?  The Justice is Medicine Awards dinner will be ticketed, and there are sponsorships available. The day program will not require payment but we will be posting a registration link to assist us in space planning and catering for breakfast and lunch. 

• Why is NNABA not at FedBar?  NNABA is piloting an approach taken by many of its peer national affinity bars, and exploring the concept of a moving annual meeting that rotates between areas where NNABA has a state or regional affiliate. NNABA is grateful to be welcomed to Oklahoma in 2025, and to host the NNABA annual meeting adjacent to the Sovereignty Symposium, an annual event in Oklahoma.  In future years, NNABA expects to host in different cities where there are similarly a strong local Native bar association community. 

• What is the dress code? Business casual, business smart, business formal, and rez chic are all common apparel choices for the NNABA meeting and dinner. 

• Is NNABA seeking sponsorships for the meeting?  Yes,  NNABA depends on sponsorships to diffuse the cost of the meeting and ensure it is accessible to as many members and students as possible.  Please contact NNABA to discuss sponsorship options and for a sponsorship packet. Sponsors receive tickets to the Justice is Medicine award dinner. 

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If you would like to sponsor the meeting or suggest an agenda item, please contact President-Elect Matt Archer-Beck at [email protected]
We look forward to seeing you in Albuquerque!

NNABA 52^nd Anniversary Justice is Medicine Sponsorships

The NNABA Board developed this year’s sponsorship framework using words and concepts from our native languages that are meaningful to our communities and relate to NNABA’s values and mission. For questions or to commit to a sponsorship, please contact NNABA at [email protected].

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Nibwaakaawin (Ojibwe): wisdom and intelligence

Nibwaakaawin sponsors support NNABA’s work to develop and share legal and cultural knowledge and experience within the native legal community and the legal profession. These efforts enable the development of wisdom and judgment critically needed to advance justice for native communities and native success in the legal profession. Gift: $10,000.

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ᎦᏚᎩ (Gadugi, Cherokee): to work together

ᎦᏚᎩ sponsors value and support NNABA’s work creating space and community for native attorneys and allies. Within this special community, we can share, nurture productive relationships, and work together for native justice and native excellence in the legal profession. Gift: $5,000.

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Onipaʻa (‘Olelo Hawai’i): steadfast

Onipaʻa sponsors celebrate NNABA’s steadfast commitment to advancing native people in the legal profession and justice for native communities. Onipaʻa sponsors are also onipaʻa—steadfast in their support for NNABA and our national community of native lawyers. Gift: $2,500.

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Kijire Nagu (Winnebago/Ho-Chunk): to help on life’s journey

Kijire Nagu sponsors deeply value the relationships NNABA enables native attorneys to create and nurture across the profession so that we can be helpers to each other and our communities. Gift: $1,000.

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Herome (Muscogee/Creek): generous, kind, or giving

Herome sponsors honor indigenous people’s traditional gifting ways as fundamental to our culture and one way that we take care of each other. They inspire generosity in all our efforts. Gift: $500.