Eagle Delegates
Note: The following delegates participated in both the Peru and Mexico Exchanges:
David Vanderhoop
David Vanderhoop, Wampanoag, resides on Martha's Vineyard in the town of Aquinnah, Massachusetts. He holds a B.S. in Fisheries Biology from the University of Alaska and has had extensive experience with both capture fisheries and aquaculture. Mr. Vanderhoop currently directs the Wampanoag Aquinnah Shellfish Hatchery and is responsible for the hatchery and a related oyster grow-out operation. Currently the Wampanoag grow oysters for profit and are experimenting with scallops, hard-shelled clams, and soft-shelled clams. They also undertake natural enhancement of shellfish stocks and monitor water quality in the tidal areas.
Wampanoag Aquinnah Shellfish Hatchery
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)20 Blackbrook Road
Aquinnah, MA 02535
e-mail: dvhoop1@aol.com
Thomas
Edwards
Tom Edwards, Jr. is a Lummi tribal member with the Lummi Indian Business Council from 1981-2002, the Lummi Natural Resources Department since 2002 and with the Lummi Schelangen (Our ways of Life) Department. He works in a number of areas including fisheries, forests and the preservation of sacred sites. Mr. Edwards' work entails the application of cultural teachings to natural resources and the protection and restoration of these resources.
Brenda Jo McManama
Brenda Jo McManama is Seneca from New York State and has been involved in indigenous issues for the past 15 years. She first worked with indigenous committees and then Secretary of State Ken Heckler fighting mountaintop removal in the coalfields of West Virginia. She also worked closely with state and local government in instituting truthful and comprehensive history of American Indian culture in public schools with the West Virginia History and Culture Department. Ms. McManama was also an assistant editor at Aquaculture Magazine for four years (2001-2005), helping to educate industry participants on growing problems of indigenous issues surrounding fisheries resources, environmental impacts/perspectives and emerging native owned/operated aquaculture efforts. She was a participant at the 2005 Pacific Northwest Convening of the Indigenous Aquaculture Network in Seattle, Washington, and assisted in the compiling of reports, creation of media/press releases, and distribution of reports/electronic media/materials after the conference. Ms. McManama is currently working as a writer, research assistant, and web designer in Western North Carolina as well as continuing administrative and editorial duties for IAN activities.
PO Box 705
Fairview, NC 28730
e-mail: nativefish@bellsouth.net
William Simmons
William Simmons is Choctaw and currently resides in San Francisco where he works for the International Indian Treaty Council
International Indigenous Treaty Council
2390 Mission St. Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94110
PH: 415-641-4482
e-mail: jimbosimmons@yahoo.com
Dr. Michael Skladany
Eagle Delegation Advisor
Dr. Skladany holds degrees in biology, resource economics and graduated with a PhD in Sociology from Michigan State University in 2000. Prior to entering graduate school, Mike worked in fisheries and aquaculture development in rural and coastal Thailand (1977-1985) as well as a brief stint in Rwanda, Africa in 1994.
Dr. Skladany assisted with the organizing of the Indigenous Aquaculture Network. He has written extensively about aquaculture/fisheries in a number of academic and popular publications. Currently he teaches Sociology at the University of Tennessee.
Department of Sociology
916 McClung Tower
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
PH: 865-974-7029
e-mail: skladany@msu.edu
Note: The following delegates participated in the Peru Exchange:
Jeffrey P. Thomas
Jeff Thomas, a member of the Muckleshoot tribe, has a B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Washington and currently is a fisheries biologist for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. Mr. Thomas has served as director of the tribes’ Timber, Fish & Wildlife Program since 1989. His work emphasizes the recovery of wild salmon stocks through protecting and restoring the habitats that salmon depend upon, which occur throughout the river basin and/or related marine estuaries. He also specializes in evaluating the impacts of logging upon all natural and/or cultural resources of concern to the Puyallup Tribe. Mr. Thomas is also a facilitator of the Intertribal Cultural Resources Advisory Group (a regional intertribal coalition) and co-chair of the Cultural Committee of the Washington State Timber, Fish & Wildlife Agreement. Recent work with these two bodies has emphasized preparation and approval of a “Cultural Resources Protection and Management Plan” (including a watershed-based cultural
4328 12th Street East
Fife, WA 98424
e-mail: jthomas20@puyallupfisheries.org
Larry W Campbell
Larry W. Campbell is a member of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community involved with the traditional and cultural aspects of his and surrounding communities. Mr. Campbell’s most recent job responsibilities were with the Swinomish Tribal Planning Department as the Cultural Resource Planner and Intergovernmental Relations. These duties involved working with federal, state, county, and tribal governments as well as private citizens. Intergovernmental Relations duties included giving many presentations on tribal Mr. Campbell’s work has spanned 25 years and has involved the tribe’s governmental committees, intergovernmental affairs, public relations, community development, spiritual traditions, and cultural activities.
14083 Reservation Road
LaConner, WA 98257
e-mail: larry.Campbell@gte.net
Wilson Wewa
Wilson Wewa is of Paiute/Nez Perce descent and a member of the Warm Springs Confederated Tribes of Oregon. He is a recognized leader of the Washaat religion of the Plateau region of the northwest. Mr. Wewa has worked with the National Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Army Corps of Engineers, and the US Attorney's office on preserving traditional use areas, sacred sites and repatriation. Mr. Wewa is also acknowledged as a traditional healer and uses prayer and his knowledge of plants to help his people. Recently, Mr. Wewa was hired by the Warm Springs tribes
to work with elders in traditional cultural contexts.
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
PO Box 309
Warm Springs, OR 97761
e-mail: paiutewewa@yahoo.com
Oregon State University's USAID-supported Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (ACRSP), through the Indian Nations Initiative of Heifer International and the Indigenous Environmental Network's Sustainable Communities Project funded the “Eagle of the North and Condor of the South Aquaculture Exchange Projects. These projects consisted of two groups of American Indian fish-cultural practitioners (“Eagles”) to exchange and share information with Indigenous South and North American counterparts (“Condors”), in Peru and Mexico respectively. Heifer International supported the North American component while ACRSP supported in-country activities for Eagles and Condors. Subsequently, Heifer International (through the Indian Nations Initiative) sub-contracted the Bemidji, Minnesota based Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) to arrange all logistics of Eagle travel.
The first exchange took place when an Eagle delegation spent April 22-28, 2006 in the Pucallpa region of Peru and in Mexico March 7-14, 2007.
Project leaders from Oregon State Univeristy ACRSP and the Indigenous Envrionmental Network (both traveling and non-traveling) contributed a great deal of time and effort to ensure that both exchanges met the project objectives. In-country Project Leaders are identified and listed with the delegates in their respective countries. The non-traveling Project Leaders:
Aquaculture CRSP
Dr. Hillary Egna
Hillary Egna is Director of the ACRSP and senior research faculty for the
College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University
. Dr. Egna is one of two main originators of this exchange project, along with Kathy Knott, formerly of Heifer International. Dr. Egna has over 25 years of experience in international research and development, and has worked in 19 countries. Hillary first became involved in international aquaculture in 1982 while working in Central America. Her academic background is in resource geography, natural resources, fisheries and aquaculture. Professionally, Hillary has been engaged in projects that focus on poverty reduction and means to improve people’s livelihoods through the careful use of water resources.
418 Snell Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-6427
PH: 541-737-6427
e-mail:
egnah@onid.orst.edu
PH: 541-737-6427
Dr. James Bowman
Jim Bowman is senior research faculty in the
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University
. Dr. Bowman has taught courses in aquaculture and group problem solving and has worked with OSU extension faculty to develop pond management workshops for private pond owners. Dr. Bowman has been involved in aquaculture since joining International Voluntary Services as a Fisheries Extension Worker in Laos in 1969. Jim completed his MS in aquaculture at Auburn University (1980) and a PhD at OSU in 1990. As Outreach Coordinator he has helped coordinate logistics for this innovative information exchange project.
418 Snell Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-6427
PH: 541-737-6427
e-mail:
James.Bowman@orgegonstate.edu
Indigenous Environmental Network
Tom Goldtooth
Tom Goldtooth, Dine’/Dakota, is the executive director of the Bemidji, Minnesota based Indigenous Environmental Network. For the past twenty years he has been involved at the international level on a number of Indigenous treaty, environmental and cultural survival issues. The IEN acted as a coordinating entity sub-contracted by Heifer International to plan, arrange logistics and execute the Eagles trip to Peru and Mexico.
PO Box 485
Bemidji, MN 56619
PH: 218-751-4967
e-mail:
ien@igc.org
The list below is information for the Eagle Delegates. Also includes email and relavant web links when available. For "Condor" contacts see: Condors.
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