From: Mike McCanna
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Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:37 AM
To: Chris Hardy; McCanna, Mike
Subject: [SemioticPixels Extranet] Alan's bio sketch

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Mike <mccannam@evergreen.edu> from TESC MPA said:
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   Hi Chris,
   Alan's picture will be cropped and sent to you Monday.
   Has the rest of the material come through okay?

   Mike

   Alan Parker is the Director of the Northwest Indian Applied Research
   Institute at The Evergreen State College where he also has served as a
   member of the faculty since September of 1997. A citizen of the
   Chippewa Cree Tribal Nation, Parker lived for many years with his
   family on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Northern Montana. Alan
   graduated from the UCLA School of Law in 1972 and practiced law in
   Washington, DC for over twenty years before joining the Evergreen
   College faculty in 1997. While in Washington, DC, he directed research
   on tribal governments for the American Indian Policy Review Commission
   and was the first Native American to serve as Chief Counsel to the US
   Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. (1977-81, 1987-91)

   During his service in the US Senate he was instrumental in securing
   passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, the Indian Religious Freedom
   Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the
   Tribal Self-governance Act, the American Indian Development Finance
   Corporation Act and numerous tribal land and water claims settlements.
   He also served as President of the American Indian National Bank from
   1982 through 1987 and later organized the first "Native American think
   tank", the National Indian Policy Center at George Washington
   University. On May 21, 2000 Washington State Governor Gary Locke
   appointed Professor Parker as the first Native American attorney to
   serve on the Washington State Gambling Commission.

   Professor Parker recently organized and is now teaching in the
   nation’s first graduate school program in tribal management, the
   Master in Public Administration: Tribal Government. His research
   interests are currently focused on integrating cultural
   revitalization, governance and sustainability through implementing
   tribal self-determination. (see: Epistomology of Native Studies) He
   has also been engaged in comparative studies of indigenous peoples of
   the Pacific Rim and is coordinating the first International Forum of
   Indigenous Nations that will take place in New Zealand in April 2005.


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