Wambli Sina Win (Lakota) - Protecting What is Ours

Wambli Sina Win is a Oglala Sioux  from Wamblee, South Dakota.  Her name, “Wambli Sina Win”, means “Eagle Shawl Woman”.   “I am honored to carry my great-grandmother’s Lakota name,” Win said, “which was given to me in a traditional Lakota ceremony in 1958.”  Wambli Sina Win (Eagle Shawl Woman) is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Bacone College Criminal Justice Studies Department in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Her grandfather was John Fire, Chief Lame Deer Tahca Uste, a well known Lakota Holy Man from the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. One of her sons is also a medicine man.

Win graduated from the University Of Oklahoma School Of Law.  She has had experience in teaching since the 1970’s.   After law school, Win worked as a tribal attorney for the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court.  Win also worked as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice under former Attorney General Janet Reno.  As a tribal liaison, Win served on Reno’s Native American Issues Subcommittee.

She has served as a Tribal Judge for the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court, as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a Tribal Attorney and as a legal Instructor for the U.S. Indian Police Academy at Artesia, N.M.

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You may contact Wambli Sina Win, J.D. at wamblisinawin@yahoo.com