Elsie Meeks
(Oglala Lakota)
Board Member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines; former State Director, South Dakota Rural Development; rancher
Richard Williams
(Oglala Lakota)
Consultant; former President and CEO, American Indian College Fund
Porter Holder
(Choctaw)
Lead plaintiff; former Vice Chair, Council on Native American Farming and Ranching; rancher
Claryca Mandan
(Three Affiliated Tribes)
Lead plaintiff; rancher; former board member, several Native agriculture, land tenure and natural resource organizations
Ross Racine
(Blackfeet)
Executive Director, Intertribal Agriculture Council; rancher
Jim Laducer
(Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
Chief Lending Officer, Board Member, and Majority Shareholder, Turtle Mountain State Bank; business owner
Sherry Salway Black
(Oglala Lakota)
Chairperson, First Peoples Fund; Board Member, Johnson Scholarship Foundation
Monica Nuvamsa
(Hopi)
Executive Director, The Hopi Foundation
Paul Lumley
(Yakama)
Executive Director, Native American Youth and Family Center
Dr. Joe Hiller
(Oglala Lakota)
Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; producer
Michael Roberts
(Tlingit)
President and CEO, First Nations Development Institute
Pat Gwin
(Cherokee)
Sr. Director of Environmental Resources, Cherokee Nation; rancher and expert on Native American heirloom seeds
Charles Graham
(Lumbee)
State Representative, North Carolina General Assembly; retired educator and business owner
Dave Archambault
Sr.
(Standing Rock Sioux)
Chairman, American Indian Business Leaders; education consultant