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POLICY BOARD MEMBERS

Nearly all members of the Institute Policy Board are enrolled in a federally recognized tribe. The Policy Board meets regularly and provides the Institute for Tribal Government with curriculum guidance, policy direction, and establishes priorities for programs, education and training. The members of the Policy Board with their tribal affiliations and titles are as follows:

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  • W. Ron Allen (Jamestown S’Klallam)
    Chairman / Executive Director,
    Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
    Sequim, Washington
  • Alan Parker, Esq. (Chippewa-Cree)
    Director, NW Indian Applied Research Institute, The Evergreen College
    Olympia, Washington
  • Edward T. Begay (Navajo)
    Former Speaker of Navajo Nation legislature
    Gallup, New Mexico
  • Olney Patt, Jr. (Warm Springs)
    former Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
    Portland, Oregon
  • John Echohawk, Esq. (Pawnee)
    Director, Native American Rights Fund
    Boulder, Colorado
  • Samuel Penney (Nez Perce)
    Former Chair, Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee
    Lapwai, Idaho
  • Antone Minthorn (Cayuse)
    former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
    Mission, Oregon
  • Roy Hunter Sampsel (Choctaw and Wyandotte)
    Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of Interior, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Policy, Department of Interior, Executive Director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Director for the Institute for Tribal Government.
    Portland, Oregon
  • Billy Frank, Jr. (Nisqually)
    Chairman, NW Indian Fisheries Commission
    Olympia, Washington
  • Don Sampson (Umatilla)
    Former Executive Director, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
    Mission, Oregon
  • Mike Williams (Yupiaq)
    Chief of Yupiit Nation, Secretary/Treasurer of Akiak Native Community, Former Chairman, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council
    Akiak, Alaska
  • Sue Shaffer (Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians)
    Former Chairwoman, Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians
    Roseburg, Oregon
  • Kathryn Harrison (Molalla)
    Former Tribal Chairwoman
    Conf. Tribes of Grand Ronde
    Sheridan, Oregon
  • Stanley Speaks (Chickasaw)
    Northwest Regional Director,
    Bureau of Indian Affairs
    Portland, Oregon
  • Gay Kingman (Cheyenne River Sioux)
    Former Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians
    Rapid City, South Dakota
  • Ernest Stensgar (Coeur d’Alene)
    Former Tribal Chairman, Coeur d’Alene Tribe
    & Former President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
    Plummer, Idaho
  • Andrew Lee, Esq. (Seneca)
    Former Executive Director of the Harvard Project
    on American Indian Economic Development
    Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Eddie L. Tullis (Poarch Band of Creek Indians)
    Former Tribal Chairman, Poarch Band of Creek Indians
    Atmore, Alabama
  • Robert Miller, Esq. (Eastern Shawnee)
    Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
    Portland, Oregon
  • Charles Wilkinson, Esq.
    Moses Lasky Professor of Law
    University of Colorado School of Law
    Boulder, Colorado