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UPS (Blackfoot Tribe), Gene Dooley - CEO and President, YMCA of Greater Kansas City for 21 years, Debbie Brinkoetter - Public Relations Director for Carondelet Health and North Kansas City Hospital for 20 years, Mariddie Craig - Two-time Tribal Council- woman with the White Mountain Apache Tribe |
NBNY Project Team
Trainers
Nick Lowery,
MPA, Harvard; BA, Dartmouth
The record-setting place
kicker for the Kansas City
Chiefs, Nick Lowery has
dedicated his post NFL
energies to
charitable and
public service, with a focus
on youth. He served three
Presidents (Reagan, Bush,
Clinton) in this capacity,
and is the only non-Indian
founding director of the
National Foundation for
American Indian Education.
After graduating as the first
pro athlete from Harvard′s
Kennedy School of Government
in 2001, Nick devoted his
efforts to developing Nation
Building for Native Youth
(NBNY). He is able to
mobilize excellent teams of
trainers, professional
athletes, and other partners
and volunteers to deliver
quality programs
cost-effectively. For more
information see
www.loweryspeaks.com.
Kirke Kickingbird,
B.A. & J.D. University of
Oklahoma
Kirke has devoted his entire
professional career to
strengthening tribal sovereignty
and empowering Indian nations to
govern themselves. A member of
the Kiowa Tribe and Kiowa Gourd
Clan, he has served as General
Counsel to the U.S. Congress'
American Indian Policy Review
Commission (1975-1977),
executive director of the
Washington-based Institute for
the Development of Indian Law
for twelve years Director of the
Native American Legal Resource
Center at Oklahoma City
University School of Law (1988
to 2000).
Kickingbird has provided
training and technical
assistance to over 150 tribal
governments in the United States
and Canada, and has consulted
with experts and governmental
officials from Canada, Norway,
Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
South Africa, South America and
Russia on indigenous people's
rights. He has served on three
U.S. delegations to the U. N.
and International Labor
Organization conferences in
Geneva dealing with the rights
of indigenous peoples.
His first book, One Hundred Million
Acres (Macmillan, 1973) was
nominated to the Pulitzer Committee.
He has written numerous books and
articles. These include: Indian
Sovereignty (1977), Indian Treaties
(1978), Indians & the U.S.
Government (1980). His 1987 Indians
and the U.S. Constitution: A
Forgotten Legacy was honored by the
U.S. Bicentennial Commission. With
his wife Lynn he published Youth for
Tribal Government (2001) with United
National Indian Youth, Inc. (UNITY).
Since 2000 he has practiced Indian
law with the Oklahoma City office of
Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker,
focusing on
economic development, gaming, tribal
constitutions, powers and governing
codes, tribal courts, taxation,
jurisdiction, and treaty rights. For
more information, see:
www.hsdwlaw.com. He
is admitted to the Oklahoma and
District of Columbia bars and the
Federal Tax Court. He has worked
with NBNY since 2003.
Rick St. Germaine,
B.A., M.A., PhD, Arizona State
University.
Rick has extensive experience in
Indian education and tribal
leadership. He has served
several times as Chairman of the
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe
Tribe; treasurer of the National
Tribal Chairmen′s Association;
chairman of the National
Congress of American Indians′
Education Committee; and
president of both the National
Indian Education Association and
the American Indian Graduate
Center. He a Professor of
American History at the
University of Wisconsin, Eau
Claire. He also served during
2000-2002 as senior visiting
scholar at Harvard University in
the JFK School of Government.
He helped to develop a
curriculum for the State of
Wisconsin on Indian Treaties and
the rights of Indian nations.
His publications include
co-author of Joining Hands:
A Resource Book on Integrating
Experiential Learning Into
American Indian Culture-Based
School Curriculum, 1995,
Kendall-Hunt, and The Role
of the School Within the Context
of American Indian Culture and
Communities, 2000.
Rick develops some of the most
compelling and relevant youth
development and educational
programs for Native communities
today and regularly consults
with schools and tribes
nationally. In recent years he
has been involved with the
Ojibwe Ceremonial Drum Society
at Mille Lacs, MN, where he also
taught education courses in the
development of new charter
schools through Bemidji State
University. He led the effort to
develop a tribal college at
Mille Lacs and regularly teaches
school leadership programs for
teachers who work with the
Navajo Nation. St. Germaine has
been involved with NBNY since
2003.
Lynn Kickingbird,
B.A., M.Ed. Virginia Tech
Lynn has worked to increase the
effectiveness of organizations
for over 30 years through
training design, leadership and
program development, strategic
planning and organizational
capacity building. She has
facilitated and helped to
implement institutional,
community-based, state-wide and
national programs. Vice
President of Kickingbird
Associates since 1984, her
specialties include strategic
visioning, governance,
organizational development and
grant writing with a focus on
small to mid-size nonprofits and
community-based organizations.
Her clients include federal,
state and tribal governments,
nonprofit organizations,
educational institutions and
communities. She has worked with
over 80 tribes and 200 nonprofit
organizations and government
agencies.
Lynn has written or co-authored
many books, articles and
training manuals including:
Indian Sovereignty,
Indians & The U.S. Government;
Indians and the U.S.
Constitution; Tribal
Peacemaking, Growing a Better
Board, Grant Writing
for Success, Working with Indian
Tribes, and Youth for
Tribal Government with
UNITY, Inc. (2001).
She is skilled at using an
organizational development
technique called "strategic
visioning" pioneered by Grove
Consultants, San Francisco. She
has a certificate in Board
Self-Assessment from BoardSource
and has been trained in The
Drucker Foundation’s Nonprofit
Management Self-Assessment Tool.
In spring 2002 her articles
"Marketing Your Mission" and
"Building Sustainable Nonprofits
through Social Entrepreneurship"
were published in Nonprofit
Governance and Management
published by the American Bar
Association. She was featured in
a case-study response in the
August 2007 issue of Board
Member. She is a member of
BoardSource and the Society for
Nonprofit Organizations. See
also
www.kickingbirdassociates.com.