There is strong support for Barack throughout Indian country. Here are a few of his supports.
PROMINENT NATIVE AMERICANS FOR BARACK OBAMA
Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet) – Executive Director, Native American Community Development Corporation
John Echohawk (Pawnee) – Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Elsie Meeks (Oglala Lakota) – CEO, First Nations Oweesta Corp. Rapid City, SD
Ladonna Harris (Comanche) – Americans for Indian Opportunities, Albuquerque, New Mexico
JoAnn Chase (Mandan/Hidatsa) – President, Chase Group Consulting and former
NCAI Director
Lillian A. Sparks, Esq. (Oglala and Sicangu Lakota) – Executive Director, National Indian Education Association
Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscogee) – President, The Morning Star Institute and former Executive Director of National Congress of American Indians
Forrest J. Gerard (Blackfeet), First Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, Carter-Mondale Administration.
Benny Shendo Jr., former Secretary of Indian Affairs of New Mexico
Keith M. Harper (Cherokee Nation) – Partner & Chair of Native American Practice Group, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Stacy L. Leeds (Cherokee Nation) – Professor of Law & Director, Tribal Law & Government Center University of Kansas
Myrna D. Gardner (Tlingit & Haida Nation) – President & CEO at Kakivik
Asset Management, Alaska
Evelyn Lance Blanchard (Laguna-Yaqui) – Community Organizer, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Ethel Branch (Navajo) – Harvard Law School, Co-Chair Native American Law Student Association
Jackson Slim Brossy (Navajo), American Indian Policy Advocate, Washington DC
Carlyle Begay (Navajo), Vice President, American Indian Health Management & Policy
Gwen Carr (Cayuga Nation of New York, Heron Clan) - Chair of the Wisconsin American Indian Democratic Caucus, former Democratic National Committee American Indian Political Director, Former Executive Director, Arizona Democratic Party
Daniel Cordalis (Navajo) – American Indian Policy Advocate, Washington DC
Christopher L. Clark Deschene (Navajo) – Schaff & Clark Deschene, LLC
Paul Echohawk (Pawnee), Partner, Echohawk Law Firm
Mark Echohawk (Pawnee), Partner, Echohawk Law Firm
Anna M. Frazier (Navajo)
Thomas W. Fredericks (Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara) - Partner, Fredericks, Peebles & Morgan and Former Associate Solicitor and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
Charles Galbraith (Navajo) – Legislative Assistant, U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Ronald Wood Galbraith (Navajo) – Medical Student, Columbia University
Wizipan Garriott (Sicangu Lakota “Rosebud Sioux”) – President, He Sapa Leadership Academy
Jeanne Givens (Coeur d'Alene) - Educator and Member, Board of Regents, Institute of American Indian Arts
Louis Gray (Osage) – Coordinator of the Primary Residential Treatment Center, Pawhuska, OK
Judy Leask Guthrie (Tsimpshian/Haida/Tlinget) – Executive Assistant to the CEO, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Ken Harper (Cherokee) S.F. Study Center & Council Coordinator, Cherokee Society of the Greater Bay Area
Shelby Settles Harper (Caddo), Attorney, Silver Spring, MD
Laura Harris (Comanche) – Executive Director & CEO, Americans For Indian Opportunity
Dusty Rose Hirsch (Blackfeet Nation) – Educator
Joan Kane (Inupiaq) - Director, Alaska Native Policy Center at First
Alaskans Institute
Jo Ann Kauffman, (Nez Perce), President/CEO, Kauffman & Associates, Inc
Zackeree S. Kelin (Caddo) – Legal Aid Attorney, Window Rock, NM
Kevin Killer (Oglala Sioux/Kiowa) – Oglala Lakota College Student Board Member
Tina Lussier, MSW,ACSW (Colville Confederated Tribes of the Colville Tribes) – Mental Health Counselor
John Macarro (Pechanga Band of Luisueno Mission Indians) – General Counsel Pechanga
Venus McGhee Prince (Poarch Band of Creek Indians) - Attorney General, Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Bryan Mercier (Grand Ronde) – Federal Employee, Washington D.C.
America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) – Artist
Heather Kendall Miller (Athapaskan) – Senior Litigation Attorney, Native American Rights Fund (Alaska)
Katie Morgan, (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska) – American Indian Law and Policy Attorney in Washington, D.C.
Alan R. Parker (Chippewa-Cree) - Director, Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute, The Evergreen State College
John Petoskey (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians) – General Counsel, Grand Traverse
Allen V. Pinkham, Sr. (Nez Perce) - Past Chairman, Nez Perce Indian Tribe and Columbia River Indian Tribes, and Former President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians
Wilson K. Pipestem (Otoe-Missouria/Osage) – Managing Partner of Ietan Consulting, LLC
Rion Ramirez (Turtle Mountain Chippewa/Pascua Yaqui) – Attorney Suquamish Tribe
Vanessa Ray-Hodge (Pueblo of Acoma) – American Indian Law and Policy Attorney, Washington, D.C.
Jay Red Eagle (Cherokee Nation) – Musician
James Riding In, Ph.D. (Pawnee) – President, Pawnee Nation University, and Professor of History and Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Robert A. Rosette (Chippewa Cree) – Partner Rosette & Associates, PC
Gyasi Ross (Blackfeet)
Ron Rowell (Choctaw Nation) – Program Officer, Social Justice, former President of the Board for the American Indian Friendship House
Roy H. Sampsel – Executive Director, The Tribal Leadership Forum
Michelle J. Singer (Navajo) – Communications Coordinator for the One Sky Center
Donna Jones Stapp (Cherokee Nation) – Chairperson, Local Indians For Education, Inc.
Denise Stiffarm (Gros Ventre), Partner, K&L Gates LLP
Janet Thomas (Standing Rock) – Executive Director Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Robert W. Trepp (Muscogee Nation), Director, Inter-Tribal Sacred Land Trust
Brian Vigue (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) - Policy Advisor, Office of Governor Jim Doyle
Donald Warne (Oglala Lakota) – MD
Dale White (Mohawk) – General Counsel St Regis Mohawk
Nicole Simone Willis (Nez Perce, Yakama, Cayuse, and Oglala Lakota) – President, Native American Law Student Association
Margaret Wood (Navajo/Seminole) – Quilter, Fiber Artist
Disclaimer: All endorsements are done so in a personal capacity and do not necessarily represent the position of any organization or tribe associated with these individuals.
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