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Board of Trustees

Elsie May Meeks Sherry Salway Black Babtist Paul Lumley III Ross Ronald Racine
Oglala Lakota Oglala Lakota Yakama Blackfeet
Chair, NAAF Board of Trustees Chairperson Executive Director Former Executive Director
Board Member of the Federal First Peoples Fund; Board Member, Native American Youth and Family Intertribal Agriculture Council;
Home Loan Bank of Des Moines; Johnson Scholarship Foundation Center rancher
former State Director, South
Dakota Rural Development;
rancher

Richard Bryant Williams Charles Vinson Graham Monica Belvera Nuvamsa Michael Edward Roberts

Oglala Lakota Lumbee Hopi Tlingit
Vice Chair, NAAF Board of State Representative Executive Director President and CEO
Trustees North Carolina General Assembly; The Hopi Foundation First Nations Development Institute
Consultant; former President and retired educator and business
CEO, American Indian College owner
Fund

Henry Porter Holder Patrick Shawn Gwin
Choctaw Cherokee
Lead plaintiff; former Vice Chair, Senior Director of Environmental
Council on Native American Resources,
Farming and Ranching; rancher Cherokee Nation; rancher and
expert on Native American
heirloom seeds

Claryca Ann Mandan Dr. Joseph G. Hiller

Three Affiliated Tribes Oglala Lakota
Lead plaintiff Professor Emeritus
Rancher; former board member University of Arizona College of
of several Native agriculture, land Agriculture and Life Sciences;
tenure and natural resource producer
organizations

David Leon Archambault, Sr. James Kirt Laducer
Standing Rock Sioux Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Chairman Chief Lending Officer, Board
American Indian Business Leaders; Member, and Majority
education consultant Shareholder
Turtle Mountain State Bank;
business owner

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