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The 2007

Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership

Ecotrust

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A non-profit organization committed to social innovation to meet ecological, economic, and equity needs within Salmon Nation.

In 2007

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We are pleased to Award the Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership for the seventh time, dating back to 2001.

Thank you.

EcotrustEcotrust

Billy Frank, Jr.

Conference Center

“Frank’s Landing South”

EcotrustEcotrust

Native programs

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Develop and communicate a vision of the current and future landscape of tribal conservation science, community development, tribal market connections, and Native youth and adult leadership

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Integrate the work of Ecotrust Fisheries, Forestry, and Food & Farms through tribal

community outreach

Ecotrust Native ProgramsEcotrust Native Programs

Native Youth Leadership

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Ongoing Ecotrust tribal youth programs exploring recycling, environmental science, and cultural programs such as the Canoe Journeys

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Support for education through youth scholarships


Local Wild Foods

are the Best Foods


Lands and

Conservation


Celebrating the Return of lands and Resources to Indigenous Peoples

G’psgolox

Pole Return to Haisla

Active tribal partnerships in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California on Lands, Forests, and Ecological Resources

EcotrustEcotrust

Since time immemorial, indigenous leadership has benefited from Salmon Nation…

…and Salmon Nation has benefited from

indigenous leadership.

From 2001–2007, that leadership is…

The Buffett AwardThe Buffett Award

2001 Buffett Award Honorees2001 Buffett Award Honorees

2001 Buffett Award

Hilistis Pauline Waterfall

Heiltsuk Nation

David Hatch

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Phillip Cash Cash

Cayuse/Nez Perce

Dennis Martinez

Tohono O'odham

Susan “Tweet”

Burdick

Yurok Nation


2002 Buffett Award

Robert Sam

Sitka Tribe of Alaska

John Ward

Taku River Tlingit First Nation

Kelly Brown

Heiltsuk Nation

Carol Craig

Yakama Nation

Kathleen Hill

Klamath Tribes of Oregon



2003 Buffett Award

Agnes Pilgirm

Takelma Band of the Siletz Indians

Jeannette Armstrong

Okanagan First Nation

Susan Masten

Yurok Nation

Chief Nathan Matthew

Shuswap Nation

Billy Frank, Jr.

Nisqually


2004 Buffett Award

Teri Rofkar

Sitka Tribe of Alaska

Sarah James

Neetsaii Gwich'in

Terry Williams

Tulalip Tribes

Ivan Jackson, Sr.

Klamath/Modoc

Clarence Alexander

Dranjik Gwich'in


2005 Buffett Award

Vice Chair Leaf Hillman

Karuk

Chairman Shawn E. Yanity

Stillaguamish

Robi Michell

Craig

Kiks.adi Clan, Steel House, Tlingit

Chairman W. Ron Allen

Jamestown S'Klallam

Chief Robert Simeon Pasco

Nlaka'pamux Nation

2006 Buffett Award

Tawna Sanchez

Shoshone Bannock/Ute

Guujaaw

Haida

Judith Sayers Ph.D

Nuu-chah-nulth

Harold Gatensby

Dahka T'lingit


Ilarion Merculieff

Aleut

2007 —

the year the

Eagle was removed

from the Endangered

Species List

2007 Buffett Award2007 Buffett Award

2007 Reading Panel

Lee Shannon (Cowichan)

Partner, Hobbs Straus Dean and Walker LLP

Chandra Hampson (Winnebago/White Earth Chippewa)

VP, Senior Lender/Director, Indian Country Initiative, ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia

Craig Jacobson (Ecotrust)

Don Ivy (Coquille)

Cultural Resources Program Coordinator, Coquille Indian Tribe

Liz Woody (Warm Springs/Yakama/Navajo)

2007 Buffett Award

The Buffett Award Reading PanelThe Buffett Award Reading Panel

2007 Final Jury Panel

2007 Buffett Award

Kathleen Hill

Klamath Tribes

Kathleen Hill

Klamath Tribes Dalee Sambo

Dorough

Inupiaq

Dalee Sambo

Dorough

Inupiaq

Leah George Wilson

Tsleil Waututh Nation

Leah George Wilson

Tsleil Waututh Nation

Alan Parker

Chippewa-Cree Tribe

Alan Parker

Chippewa-Cree Tribe

Antone Minthorn

Umatilla

Antone Minthorn

Umatilla

Spencer B. Beebe

Ecotrust

Spencer B. Beebe

Ecotrust

Award for Indigenous LeadershipAward for Indigenous Leadership

2007 Buffett Award

Carol Craig

Yakama Nation

Alfred (Bud) Lane III

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Lillian Moyer

Tahltan Nation

Roberta (Bobbie) Conner

Cayuse, Umatilla, Nez Perce

Michael Pavel, Ph.D.

Skokomish Tribal Nation


Roberta (Bobbie) Conner

Umatilla, Cayuse, Nez Perce

“Culture brings us together. Culture reflects our values. It’s what we hold closest to our hearts and cling to in times of need.”

•Director of the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute since 1997.

•Serves on several Boards of State and National Prominence.

•Well-published writer and lecturer on cultural preservation issues.

•Mentors Young scholars interested in tribal cultural preservation.

Roberta Conner, Cultural Resource Advocate


Aspen, the newest Heritage Collection is based on an original dating recently rediscovered in a private collection from the 1920s. As with most Native American-inspired designs, it pays tribute to the beauty of nature.


Carol Craig

Yakama Nation

“The Yakama people have used traditional environmental knowledge to guide the preservation of natural resources that continue to sustain us today.”

•Educates the public about Tribal treaty rights, salmon recovery, and environmental protection.

•Public Information Manager and Coordinator of several major film projects, as well as the Award-winning journal Sin-Wit-Ki.

•Mentors aspiring Yakama tribal journalists and photographers.

Carol Craig, Emissary of the Salmon People Nusuxmi Tanánma

2007 Buffett Award Honorees2007 Buffett Award Honorees2007 Buffett Award Honorees

Woven from the classic Pendleton blanket fabric, the Rock Art blanket is too intriguing to hide undercover. The ancient pattern captures the images of the famed 10,000-year-old petroglyphs found in the Columbia River Gorge.


Alfred (Bud) Lane III

Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians

“Knowledge allows us to see further.”

•Athabaskan

Language and Traditional Arts Instructor.

•Master Basketry Artist and Advocate for Basket Weavers

•Built the first Siletz Dance House in over 100 Years and Active in Restoring Ceremonial Activities.

•Elected tribal

leader, current Vice-Chairman.


Alfred (Bud) Lane, Cultural Strategist & Language Keeper

A tribute to famed Apache (Athabascan language speaker) medicine

man, seer and spiritual leader, Geronimo. He was single-minded in his determination to preserve his people's land and culture through any means necessary. The Geronimo blanket is

inspired by an original Pendleton robe he wore in a photograph from the early 1900s.


Lillian Moyer

Tahltan Nation

“We are not against some development, but too much too fast will be the death of our land and culture.”

•President of the Tahltan Elders Society, working to protect the watersheds of the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass wilderness river systems.

•Activist committed to civil disobedience, where necessary, to oppose massive mining and other threats to the Sacred Headwaters.


Lillian Moyer, Traditional Elder of Sacred Headwaters

Haida artist April White possesses a heritage in which art is a cultural tradition. The myths and legends of her people live in her work. This blanket is adapted from White’s painting, White Raven’s Moonlit Flight.


Michael Pavel, Ph.D.

Skokomish Tribal Nation

“We as human beings were given the charge to care for, to nourish and protect this way of life. The more we live productively and in harmony, we all reap the rewards.”

•Apprenticed with his uncle Bruce Miller (subiyay) and leads in the traditional society of the House of sla’Nay

for the Skokomish.

•2007 Indian Educator of the Year in Washington, and current Associate Professor, College of Education, Washington State University


Michael Pavel, Educator, Advocate for Ancestral Connections


A pattern inspired by mid-

to late-19th century Native American weaving traditions and the influence of Spanish missionaries in the Southwest. The design's roots are in the traditional banded Chief Stripe pattern which evolved into a "nine-element" layout.

The Buffett Award and Ecotrust

thank the following for their generous support:

AnonymousPeter Buffett and Jennifer Buffett

Howard and Devon BuffettEcotrust Fisheries and Copper River Program

The Evergreen State College LonghouseConfederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian ReservationHis and Hers Photography

Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker LLPRJ Kopchak

Shorebank Enterprise CascadiaSimpatica

CateringOfelia Svart

Elizabeth Woody

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