Public Witness Hearing

03/12/08
Hearing
Public Witnesses – Native Americans
10:00 AM, B-308 Rayburn

(In Order of Appearance)


Frances Charles, Chairwoman, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

Jeremy C. Weso, Tribal Administrator, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin

Herman Dillion, Sr., Chairman, Puyallup Tribe of WA

Billy Frank, Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

Denese LaClair, Chairwoman, Skokomish Tribe of Washington

Victoria A. Doud, President, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

James Zorn, Executive Director, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission

Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Gene Joseph, Council Member, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Liz Mueller, Vice-Chair, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe

Ervin Carlson, President, InterTribal Bison Cooperative

Jim Peters, Chairman, Squaxin Island Tribe

Gary Batton, Assistant Chief, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

David M. Gipp, President, United Tribes Technical College

Eugene Guerito/Faye BlueEyes, School Board President/Director of Finance, Dzith-Na-O-Dith-Hle Community Grant School

Rodger Martinez (accompanied by Nancy R. Martine Alonzo), President, Board of Trustees (Assistant Secretary of Education for Indian Education), Ramah Navajo School Board, Inc.

Fawn Sharp, President, Quinault Indian Nation

Lloyd Tortalita, Education Director, Pueblo of Acoma

Joe Herman, Chief of Police, Oglala Sioux Tribe-Department of Public Safety

Micah McCarty, Chairman, Makah Tribal Council (Neah Bay, WA)

Linda Holt, Chairperson, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

Ralph Forquera, Executive Director, Seattle Indian Health Board

James Allen Crouch/ Hon. Reno Franklin, Executive Director/Chairman, California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc.,

H. Sally Smith, Chairperson, National Indian Health Board