Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund

The California Indian Law Association founded the Allogan Slagle Scholarship Fund to support Native American law students, especially those from California tribes and California’s urban Indian communities. Scholarships will be awarded annually on the basis of a combination of students' financial need and academic promise.

The scholarship fund is named in honor of Allogan Slagle who, after majoring in English at UCLA, became the first UCLA post-graduate to earn a Master's degree in American Indian Studies.

Allogan went on to Loyola Law School and then taught Native American law at UC Berkeley. He subsequently joined the Association of American Indian Affairs, serving as an attorney for federal recognition of California tribes and as a pro bono advocate in Native legal matters.

His dual talents were law and writing. His Master's thesis “Somebody Did Medicine” became part of the 1987 book The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America. And for more than twenty years he wrote "Groundhog Day," a column on federal Indian policies for News from Native California. The column's title referred to a totemic guardian he discovered on field research in the Dakotas in 1975.

Allogan died on December 1, 2002, from a massive heart attack. He is buried in North Carolina Cherokee land, where he began his life.

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Learn more about the California Indian Law Association online; to learn more about Allogan Slagle, read the powerful tribute that UCLA English Professor Kenneth Lincoln published in Volume 26, No. 4 of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 121-29 (2002).

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