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:

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 Arikara) Chairman, Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation & President of the National Congress of American Indians New Town, North Dakota Kathryn Harrison (Molalla) Former Tribal Chairwoman Conf. Tribes of Grand Ronde Sheridan, 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, The 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 Charles Wilkinson, Esq. Moses Lasky Professor of Law University of Colorado School of Law Boulder, Colorado Mike Williams (Yupiaq) Former Chairman, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Akiak, Alaska