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CRITFC Commissioners
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission makes decisions by consensus, not by majority. This traditional decision-making process ensures that all involved support all the decisions.
The Fish and Wildlife Committees of the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm
Springs Reservation of Oregon, and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of
the Yakama Indian Nation, comprise the governing body of the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. The four Committees must reach consensus in
order for the Commission to act. CRITFC Officers are elected to a one-year
term. The chair is selected by the commission from the commissioners representing
the tribe whose turn it is to hold the chairmanship. The chairmanship is
currently held by the Nez Perce Tribe.
Officers
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Chairman McCoy Oatman
Nez Perce
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Oatman has served as a NPTEC member and CRITFC commissioner
for the past one and a half years and comes from a long-line of
tribal leaders. A tribal fisher, Oatman is a second generation NPTEC
member. Prior to NPTEC, Oatman helped tribal youth at the Lapwai
Valley Boys and Girls Club and served as the tribe’s community center
coordinator.
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Vice Chairman Bruce Jim
Warm Springs
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Bruce Jim has served on the Commission since 2000. Born
and raised on the Warm Springs reservation, Mr. Jim has fished in
the Columbia and its tributaries his whole life. He also serves
on the Warm Springs Off-reservation Fish & Wildlife Committee.
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Secretary Fidelia Andy
Yakama
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Fidelia Andy has served on the Commission since 2006 and
was the Commission's first female Chair in the organization's history.
She grew up on the Columbia River and has regularly fished there
throughout her life. Ms. Andy also serves on the Yakama Tribal Council
and is on the Law & Order/Fish & Wildlife Committee.
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Treasurer N. Kathryn Brigham
Umatilla
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N. Kathryn "Kat" Brigham has served on the Commission
since its inception over 32 years ago; most recently serving as
the 2008-2009 Commission Chair. She regularly fishes on the Columbia
River mainstem with her family. Ms. Brigham also serves as the Secretary
of the Board of Trustees of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation and is the Chair of the Fish & Wildlife Committee.
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Commission delgations from each tribe
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Nez Perce Tribe
headquartered in Lapwai, Idaho
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(208) 843-2254
www.nezperce.org
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Brooklyn D. Baptiste, Julia Davis-Wheeler, Tonia B. Garcia,
Larry M. Greene, Joanna F. Marek, Joel T. Moffett, McCoy Oatman,
Wilfred A. Scott, Mary Arthur, Elmer Crow, Quintin Ellenwood, Eric
Holt, Herbert Jackson
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Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation
headquartered in Mission, Oregon
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(541) 276-3165
www.umatilla.nsn.us
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Rapheal Bill, N. Kathryn Brigham, Alan Crawford, Ken Hall,
Mitchell L. Pond
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Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon
headquartered in Warm Springs, Oregon
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(541) 553-3257
www.warmsprings.com
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Leslie Bill, Bruce Jim, Olney Patt, Jr., Ryan Smith, Sacred
Heart Suppah
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Yakama Nation
headquartered in Toppenish, Washington
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(509) 865-5121 |
Virgil Lewis, Richard George, Sam Jim, Jr., Gerald Lewis
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Preamble, CRITFC Constitution and Bylaws
We, the Indians of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, recognize that our fisheries are a basic and important natural resource of vital concern to the Indians of these states and that the conservation of this resource is dependent upon effective and progressive management. And that it is further recognized that federal court decisions have specifically established that the tribes have treaty rights to an equitable share of the Columbia Basin fishery resource. We further believe that by unity of action we can best accomplish these things, not only for the benefit of our own people but for all of the people of the Pacific Northwest.
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