Naomi Y. Bebo - Attorney Bio

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Naomi Y. Bebo is an attorney in the Tribal Nations Group at Drummond Woodsum, bringing extensive experience in tribal government matters. For nine years she served as in-house counsel for multiple tribes in California and Arizona, advising tribal governments and leadership on direct legal services and legal department management. Her practice emphasizes federal Indian and tribal law, sovereignty support, nation-building, and protection of cultural, environmental, and natural resources.

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Naomi Y. Bebo Attorney Phone: 928.220.6324 [Email:](Email: nbebo@dwmlaw.com)[ ](Email: nbebo@dwmlaw.com)[n](Email: nbebo@dwmlaw.com)[bebo@dwml](Email: nbebo@dwmlaw.com)[aw.com](Email: nbebo@dwmlaw.com) 114 N. San Francisco Street Suite 104 Flagstaff, AZ 86001 Assistant: Dory Goldberg Email: [dgoldberg@dwmlaw.com](dgoldberg@dwmlaw.com) Bio Naomi Bebo is an attorney with the Tribal Nations Group at Drummond Woodsum. Naomi has extensive tribal government experience and for the last nine years served as In-House Counsel for several tribes in California and Arizona, where she provided tribal governments, their departments, programs, enterprises, and entities, the tribal councils, committees, and boards, and general membership with direct legal services and legal department management. In contrast to her general counsel work serving as the sole tribal government attorney for a single tribe, working for Drummond Woodsum allows Naomi to represent many tribal nations with the resources of a top-ranking national firm including access to its diverse body of attorney specialists, in both tribalspecific and shared tribal client interests. Naomi is a registered tribal member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin as well as a Ho-Chunk Nation descendant. As a tribal individual, she is a dedicated practitioner in federal Indian and tribal law. She is passionate about Nation-building in all its forms, whether supporting essential governmental operations through tribal leadership development, code and contract drafting, elections and voting assistance, and tribal court litigation; cultural, environmental, and natural resources protection, including fee-to-trust projects for ancestral lands restoration as well as the return of ancestors and sacred objects to tribal communities utilizing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and CalNAGPRA process; and assistance with tribal economic development, redevelopment, and expansion projects and dayto-day support for tribal business operations, which ultimately contributes to more financially independent Nations, their ability to selffund tribal government operations and essential tribal services, and Practice Areas Tribal Nations Law Federal Indian Law Admissions Arizona California New Mexico Morongo Tribal Court strengthens sovereignty. Naomi was the lead attorney for the management of a large fee-to-trust portfolio containing thousands of acres of fee land purchased for placement into federal trust, frequently requiring resolution and removal of complex encumbrances on title. She also successfully implemented and expanded a Department of Justice’s Office of Victims of Crime grant-funded tribal program to provide regional and culturally sensitive, trauma-informed victim support services – including legal assistance – to both tribal and non-tribal clients across Southern California. Naomi attended the UCLA School of Law’s joint degree (J.D. / M.A.) program focusing on federal Indian and tribal law and American Indian Studies. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA and is admitted to practice in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and the Morongo Tribal Court. She is a member of the Indian Law Section of the Federal Bar Association. Outside of her legal practice, Naomi was born and raised in Los Angeles and learned dancing and regalia construction as a youth through urban indigenous education programs. Since then, she has toured internationally from South Korea to Australia with various dance performance groups, including the renowned American Indian Dance Theatre. Naomi is also a diverse arts and beadwork/quillwork artist with works featured internationally, including shows at the Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Saskatchewan Dunlop Art Gallery, Quebec Art Mur, Albuquerque Museum, New York UB Art Galleries, Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and the Minnesota Tweed Museum of Art

FAQs

What is Naomi Y. Bebo’s primary legal focus?

Her primary focus is federal Indian and tribal law, supporting tribal governments, sovereignty initiatives, and related legal matters.

What key experience does she have from her in-house counsel role?

She has provided direct legal services and legal department management for several tribes, advising departments, programs, enterprises, councils, committees, and boards.

Where is she admitted to practice?

She is admitted in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and in Morongo Tribal Court.

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