Cultural Center. On the Indian Advisory Board for Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington State College, and the Water Commission re: Indian Water Rights. TASK FORCE 4: FEDERAL, STATE, AND TRIBAL JURISDICTION Chairman: Sherwin Broadhead SHERWIN BROADHEAD presently residing in Reardon, Wash., is working with the Institute for the Development of Indian Law on treaty rights involving four tribal groups and is serving as consultant to various tribes. He is an attorney, having graduated from George Washington University with a J.D. degree in 1961 and is a member of the Idaho Bar Association. He formerly served as congressional relations officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and special assistant for Indian Affairs on the staff of Senator James Abourezk, chairman of the former Senate Subcommittee on Indian Affairs. He has long been an active advocate on Indian tribal sovereignty. Member: Judge William Roy Rhodes Judge WILLIAM ROY RHODES, the chief tribal judge of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, is a Pima Indian, married and the father of five children and three foster children. Judge Rhodes is president of the American Indian Lawyer Training Program, a member of the National Indian Court Judges Association, and presently a member of the Arizona Governor's Task Force on Police/ Community Relations. Prior to being elected chief tribal judge at Gil River, he was involved in law enforcement activities in Maricopa County in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and in the tribal police. Member: Matthew L. Calac MATT CALAC is from the Rincon Band of Mission Indians. He has been on the Business Council of the Rincon Band and has also been area vice president of the National Congress of American Indians. He has served as the executive director for Americans for Indian Future and Tradition, which performs legal, social, and health services, as well as job placement and training programs. He chairs the ad hoc Committee on Public Law 83-280 for 29 southern California reservations and directs all of the Inter-Tribal Council of California's efforts relating to Public Law 83-280. He has also been active in other important tribal and California Indian organizations. Mr. Calac is married and has four children. TASK FORCE 5: INDIAN EDUCATION Chairwoman: Helen Schierbeck HELEN SCHIERBECK is a member of the Lumbee Tribe, and is currently involved in several projects relating to Indian education. She is serving as director of the Special Project on the History and Financing of Indian Education for the John Hay Whitney Foundation and as service coordinator for three major Indían education organizations. From 1966 to 1973, she was closely associated with Federal programs and efforts to improve educational opportunities for Indians. Ms. Schierbeck has published several articles about Indian education and has received numerous awards. She is a doctoral candidate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Member: Earl Barlow EARL BARLOW is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe. He received his B.A. degree from Western Montana College in 1947. He also holds a master's degree in education from the University of Montana. Mr. Barlow has served as superintendent of schools in both Hot Springs and Stevensville, Mont. In 1970, he became directly responsible for all JOM programs in Montana. Mr. Barlow is presently superintendent of schools on the Blackfeet Reservation. Member: Lorraine Misiaszek LORRAINE MISIASZEK, an enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, served as an elected tribal council member for 4 years, active membership on the Board of Directors of Advocates for Indian Education Northwest Tribes, served as an advisory committee member for Spokane's Education TV Services, a trustee for Fort Wright College of the Holy Names, and a member of the National Indian Education Association. She holds a B.A. and a masters degree from Gonzaga University, Spokane, Wash. Areas of employment have been mainly in the education field; most recently as acting director of the Advocates for Indian Education Northwest Tribes whose main goal is the development of an educational center which will serve the four northwest States in the areas of technical assistance, materials information center, and training assistance for education personnel ultimately improving educational opportunities for Indian youths. TASK FORCE 6: INDIAN HEALTH Chairman: Dr. Everett Rhoades Dr. EVERETT RHOADES is a Kiowa. He has had extensive experience both in practice and in the teaching of medicine. He is presently the chief of the infectious disease section of the University of Oklahoma Medical Center. He is a member of more than a dozen societies and organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the Association of American Indian Physicians (of which he was president and founder in 1974), and the National Congress of American Indians. Dr. Rhoades has published some 40 articles in professional journals. He is married and has five children. Member: Luana L. Reyes LUANA REYES is from the Colville Reservation in Washington. Now executive director of the Seattle Indian Health Board, Ms. Reyes has been active in local and national Indian health committees for the last 15 years. She has also served as the Commissioner of the Seattle Indian Services Commission, which houses several Indian programs and has been active in other community affairs. As a child, she attended schools on or near the Colville Reservation; she has also studied education and business at the University of Puget Sound and the University of Washington. She has one child. Member: Lillian McGarvey LILLIAN MCGARVEY is an Aleut from Alaska. She is currently director of health programs for the Aleut League, a nonprofit organization for the Aleut region. As chairperson of the Native Service Unit Board of the Alaska Native Health Board, she is Alaska's representative on the National Indian Health Board. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alaska Chapter of the American Public Health Association and is helping the Comprehensive Health Advisory Council of Alaska to draw up a State health plan. In addition, Ms. McGarvey is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Aleut Corporation, one of the 12 regional corporations set up under the Alaska Native Claims Act. She has two daughters and five grandchildren. TASK FORCE 7: RESERVATION AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION Chairman: Peter MacDonald PETER MACDONALD has been chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council for 5 years. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in engineering, he worked with the Hughes Aircraft Co., as an engineer and a member of the technical staff. He returned to work for his tribe first as director of management, methods and procedures, then as director of the Office of Navajo Economic Opportunity. Mr. MacDonald has also been very active in national Indian affairs. and State affairs. He is married and has five children. Member: Ken Smith KEN SMITH is a member of the Wasco Tribe from the Warm Springs Reservation. Having graduated from the University of Oregon in 1959 with a major in finance and accounting, he has worked for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs for 16 years, originally as an accountant and now as general manager for the reservation. In addition to having served 3 years on his tribal council, he has been active in other civic groups and Indian organizations. He is married and has two chldren. Member: Phillip Martin PHILLIP MARTIN is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. A member of the tribal council since 1957, he has twice been tribal chairman, first from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1971 to 1975. He has not limited his energies to the tribal council, but has also been chairman of the board of the Choctaw Housing Authority and executive director of the Choctaw Community Action Program. Mr. Martin has been president of the Board of Regents of Haskell Indian Junior College since 1970 and has also been active in other Indian organizations, having served as president of the Board of United Southeastern Tribes for two terms and also a member of the National Tribal Chairman's Association and the National Congress of American Indians. Mr. Martin is married and has two children. TASK FORCE 8: URBAN AND RURAL NON-RESERVATION INDIANS Chairman: Alfred Elgin THE REVEREND ALFRED ELGIN is a Pomo Indian from California. Until recently, the project director for the Indian Centers Development Services, which works with numerous urban Indian organizations, he is now acting executive director for the American Indian Community House in New York City. He has also worked as executive director for the Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland and as a counselor for the Oakland American Indian Association. He has been a leader in several California Indian organizations, such as the Intertribal Council of California and the California Indian Education Association and has served as the Board Chairman for the United Scholarship Service and as a board member for the Native American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Mr. Elgin has a B.A. in exegetical theology from Bethany Bible College. He is married and has six children. Member: Gail Thorpe GAIL THORPE is a member of the Sac and Fox Tribe. The eldest daughter of the famous athlete, Jim Thorpe, she was born in Oklahoma, attended Haskell Indian Junior College and Chilocco Indian School and later graduated from business school in Chicago. She is currently employed as office manager of the regional office of the Girl Scouts in Chicago. Active for many years in Indian affairs, she is now president of the Indian Council Fire and secretary of Descendants of Jim Thorpe, Inc. Ms. Thorpe has served as an Illinois delegate to the Governor's Indian Interstate Council and is the president of Tipi, Inc., an American Indian speaker's bureau. Member: Edward F. Mouss EDWARD F. Mouss is a Creek-Cherokee from Oklahoma. Now executive director for the Creek Nation, he has also worked as the manager of New Enterprise Development for Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity and as a consultant and staff researcher at the University of Oklahoma. He received a B.A. from Oklahoma State University in science management in 1965 and then went on to get a masters of business administration from the University of Tulsa in 1970 and a master of regional and urban planning in 1973 from the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Mouss is married and has two children. TASK FORCE 9: INDIAN LAW REVISION, CONSOLIDATION AND CODIFICATION Chairman: Peter S. Taylor PETER S. TAYLOR is a resident of Arlington, Va., was codirector of the Indian Civil Rights Task Force in the Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior. For the past 4 years, he has worked exten sively on the revision and consolidation of Indian law. Mr. Taylor is a 1963 graduate of the George Washington University School of Law and is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bar Associations. Prior to his service on the Indian Civil Rights Task Force, he practiced law in the District of Columbia for 7 years. Member: Yvonne Knight YVONNE KNIGHT is a member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, has been a staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund since 1971. She is currently drafting a tribal constitution and bylaws for the Menominee Tribe and her work has been praised as a model for the development of tribal constitutions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and scholarships and is a member of six distinguished professional organizations. Ms. Knight received her J.D. from the University of New Mexico Law School in 1971 and is a member of the Colorado Bar Association. Member: Browning Pipestem BROWNING PIPESTEM is an Otoe Missouria Osage Indian from Norman, Oklahoma, and a tribal council member of the Otoe-Missouria. Mr. Pipestem, a graduate of the Oklahoma State University Law School is a partner in the law firm of Pipestem, Rivas, and Charles. He is married and is the father of two children. TASK FORCE 10: TERMINATED AND NON-FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIANS Chairwoman: Jo Jo Hunt Jo Jo HUNT is a Lumbee from North Carolina. She graduated cum laude from Pembroke State University in 1970, and received her degree from Duke University Law School in 1973. After legal experience as a law clerk with a Washington, D.C., law firm and with the Washington Office of Pine Tree Legal Assistance of Calais, Maine, Ms. Hunt was hired as a counsel for the Indian Affairs Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives. She has also been active in several national Indian organizations. Member: John Stevens JOHN STEVENS is a Passamaquoddy Indian from Maine. He has been Commissioner of Maine's Department of Indian Affairs for the past 4 years. He has long been active in tribal affairs and was employed as director of the Passamaquoddy Community Action Program. He also worked in the paper mills for 15 years, during which time he was a union leader. He is currently active in a large number of local and national Indian organizations, in addition to serving on several State councils. Member: Robert Bojorcas ROBERT BOJORCAS is a member of Klamath Tribe. Formerly a counselor at Central Oregon Community College and at the University of Oregon, he was, until recently, business manager and education chair |