TORONTO — A woman who became the first female Indigenous dean of a Canadian law school has launched a lawsuit against the university, alleging it racially discriminated against her and forced her to resign from the post earlier this year. Angelique EagleWoman, a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe of South Dakota, was appointed head of the law school at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., in May 2016 and resigned in June. The university’s law school was founded in 2013 with the intent of focusing on Indigenous programming. She also requested that the school “implement cultural competency/interaction training to improve the environment within the law school. Weeks after EagleWoman’s departure, a non-Indigenous provincial judge was appointed as interim dean of the law school to the chagrin of some First Nations leaders.

Source: National Post November 22, 2018 04:41 UTC