Howard Vogel is professor of law at Hamline University School of Law where he has taught since 1975. Trained in both law and theology, Professor Vogel’s current work is devoted to exploring the possibilities of restorative justice to address the legacy of the historic injustices of land theft and slavery which provided much of the foundation of American prosperity in an effort to heal the continuing harm from that is the legacy of these practices so that all may flourish beyond the burden of the past. He will be speaking about restorative justice in the context of the Dakota-U.S. War in 1862 and the ethnic cleaning that followed in 1863.