a non-profit organization

The Tribal Leadership Forum is non-profit corporation, organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes under 501c3.  Tribal Leadership Forum projects include the Great Tribal Leaders of Modern Times Video and Curriculum projects, a scholarship program to enable tribes to attend the Institute’s Tribal Governance classes and other educational projects selected by the non-profit Board of Directors.   Tax deductible contributions can be sent to Tribal Leadership Forum, PO Box 610, North Plains, Oregon 97133. The members of the Tribal Leadership Forum are enrolled in a federally recognized tribe. The members of the Forum and their tribal affiliations and titles are as follows:

W. Ron Allen (Jamestown S’Klallam) Chairman/Executive Director, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Sequim, Washington Edward T. Begay (Navajo) Former Speaker of Navajo Nation legislature Gallup, New Mexico John Echohawk, Esq. (Pawnee) Director, Native American Rights Fund Boulder, Colorado Jayne Fawcett (Mohegan) Ambassador, Mohegan Tribe Uncasville, Connecticut Billy Frank, Jr. (Nisqually) Chairman, NW Indian Fisheries Commission Olympia, Washington Tex Hall (Mandan and Hidatsa) Chairman, Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation & President of the National Congress of American Indians New Town, North Dakota Kathryn Harrison (Molalla) Former Tribal Chairwoman Grand Ronde, Oregon Gay Kingman (Cheyenne River Sioux) Former Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians Rapid City, South Dakota Andrew Lee, Esq. (Seneca) Former Executive Director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Cambridge, Massachusetts A. David Lester (Muscogee Creek) Executive Director, Council of Energy Resource Tribes Centennial, Colorado Robert Miller, Esq. (Eastern Shawnee) Associate Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School Portland, Oregon Antone Minthorn (Cayuse) Chairman, Board of Trustees, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Mission, Oregon

Alan Parker, Esq. (Chippewa-Cree) Director, NW Indian Applied Research Institute, Evergreen College Olympia, Washington Olney Patt, Jr. (Warm Springs) Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission Portland, Oregon Samuel Penney (Nez Perce) Former Chair, Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee Lapwai, Idaho Roy 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 Ocean Park, Washington Don Sampson (Umatilla) Executive Director, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Mission, Oregon Sue Shaffer (Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians) Chairwoman, Cow Creek Band of the Umpqua Tribe of Indians Roseburg, Oregon Stanley Speaks (Chickasaw) Northwest Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs Portland, Oregon Ernest Stensgar (Coeur d’Alene) Former Tribal Chairman, Coeur d’Alene Tribe & President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Plummer, Idaho Eddie L. Tullis (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) Former Tribal Chairman, Poarch Band of Creek Indians Atmore, Alabama Tim Wapato (Colville) Former Director of the National Indian Gaming Association & former Director of the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative Rapid City, South Dakota Mike Williams (Yupiaq) Former Chairman, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Akiak, Alaska