Sammy Matsaw, PhD
Sammy is a father, husband, grandfather, and extended family member. Sammy along with Jessica oversees day-to-day operations of River Newe; planning, coordination, website development and social media communications, and grant writing. He brings ten years of military experience and leadership. An additional ten years of science and management involved in Indigenous sovereignty and treaties with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ Fish and Wildlife department. He is also a pipe-carrier and Sundancer with both his mother and father’s tribes.
Tuesday 14th Sept
Nation-building as an Educator and Scientist through tribal employment & as co-founders of River Newe, an Indigenous owned nonprofit organization
We will present an overview, film clip, and update on River Newe, tribal employment roles, and members of our community interactions. There is importance to the positionality as tribal employees with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal government that is becoming pertinent to us and specific to our nation. The specificity is a pattern of storytelling (living metaphors) from theory to praxis, on-the-ground, and real-time cultural-relevancy of experiences. We are concurrently working on proposals to increase this activity and gain support to carry out the work among Indigenous Pedagogy and Methodology development. Through our daily work we are creating up and coming active agents of climate change sciences (social, political, environmental, and legal intersections) through Shoshone-Bannock Traditional Ecological Knowledge (SBTEK) frameworks.
Tuesday 14th Sept
What is the current status of American Indian Communities and NSF Involvement and Why?
Wednesday 15th Sept