Maymangwa Flying Earth, Esq. BA, JD

Maymangwa Flying Earth, Esq. grew up on the Standing Rock reservation along the banks of the Missouri River. She has tribal affiliations to the Standing Rock Lakota/Dakota and the White Earth Anishinaabe. Maymangwa is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community.

Maymangwa earned her Bachelor’s of Arts in Indigenous Legal and Sociopolitical History from the University of Minnesota. She earned her Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 2006. While in law school, she served as president of the National Native American Law Student Association and served as a Teaching Assistant in the Pre-Law Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico.  After law school, she clerked at the United States Court of Federal Claims. Since becoming an attorney she has worked on various Federal Indian law matters including, tribal trust issues, federal recognition, and jurisdiction. Most recently, she has worked on small business regulatory matters and government contracting.

Since the birth of her two children, Maymangwa has recognized a
need for birth justice advocates in Indian Country. After completing the Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselor training in 2018, she founded the Colorado Indigenous Breastfeeding Coalition. Maymangwa is excited to advance the revitalization of Indigenous birth practices by assisting
Indigenous birth workers and tribal leaders assert their sovereignty and reclaim Indigenous birth practices on tribal lands.