Co-Chair Canada

The Honorable Jaret Cardinal, Chief Sucker Creek First Nation (Cree)

I am Cree and I have been elected to the position of Chief of the Sucker Creek First Nation which is signatory to Treaty No. 8. The Sucker Creek First Nation is the original location upon which Treaty relations were concluded between our forefathers and the Queen’s Representatives (Treaty No.8). Over the past ten years, I have had the opportunity to work with the leadership from the First Nations in Alberta, Canada, and gain extensive knowledge and experience in dealing with Treaty Rights, Aboriginal Rights, Case Law, and governance issues...More

Co-Chair  Aotearoa  
The Honorable Aroha Te Pareaka Mead,  Representative, Ngati Awa Iwi,  Aotearoa.     

Aroha Te Pareake Mead is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Call of the Earth Steering Committee. Aroha is from the Ngati Awa and Ngati Porou tribes (Maori) of the Tairawhiti and Mataatua regions of Te Ika a Maui the North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand. She has been involved in indigenous cultural and intellectual property and environmental issues for over 30 years at tribal, national, Pacific regional and international levels. Aroha is also a member of the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand.... More

Co-Chair  Australia 
 Associate Professor Daryle   Rigney, Representative  Ngarrindjeri Nation, South Australia
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Jewell   James,  Lummi   Nation Policy Director
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Alan Parker is the Director of the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute and an Evergreen Faculty member. He is a member of the Chippewa-Cree Tribe, and grew up on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Northern Montana. He is a former director of the National Indian Policy Center and a former chief of counsel and staff director for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Also, before coming to Evergreen, he was the president of the American Indian National Bank. Alan received the Juris Doctorate from the University of California-Los Angeles, and has spent many years practicing law.