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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.
Officers
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.
- Fidelia Andy, Yakama, Chairman
- N. Kathryn Brigham, Umatilla, Vice-chair
- Gary E. Greene, Nez Perce, Secretary
- Ryan Smith, Warm Springs, Treasurer
Nez Perce Commissioners
Brooklyn D. Baptiste, Gary E. Greene, Larry M. Greene, Virgil Holt, Sr., Joanna
F. Marek, Rebecca A. Miles, Joel T. Moffett, John E. Strombeck, Herbert
Jackson, Joseph Y. Oatman, Wilfred A. Scott, Julia Davis-Wheeler
Umatilla Commissioners
Rapheal Bill, Kathryn Brigham, Ken Hall, Jay Minthorn, Mitchell L. Pond
Warm Springs Commissioners
Leslie Bill, Harold Blackwolf, Sr., Bruce Jim, Ryan Smith
Yakama Commissioners
Fidelia Andy, Richard George, Sam Jim, Sr., Athena Sanchez-Yallup |
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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