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ROY SAMPSEL
Choctaw and Wyandotte Tribes


Roy Sampsel is a Board Member of the Institute for Tribal Government, the Tribal Leadership Forum, and also president of Global Resources Inc., a natural resources and management consulting firm located in Portland, Oregon.

Mr. Sampsel received his B.A. in Political Science from Portland State University. From 1981-1983 he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs for the US Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., where he worked on Indian rights protection and natural resources policy (including timber, fish, wildlife, oil, gas and minerals). Mr. Sampsel also worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on implementation of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Act. From 1977-79 he served as the first Executive Director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (Portland, Oregon), an inter-tribal agency created to protect treaty fishing rights of the Warm Springs, Yakama, Umatilla and Nez Perce Tribes. From 1971-1976 he served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior for the Pacific Northwest Region (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska). He was responsible for assisting the Secretary in developing and implementing departmental policy for federal resources, and for liaison with tribal and state governments and federal agencies throughout the region. During the past 30 years he has worked extensively with northwest and other tribal governments on inter-governmental relations, and the development and implementation of fish, wildlife, water and energy policy.