Dorothy FireCloud, Native American Affairs Liaison, will speak about the role of the National Park Service Office of Native American Affairs and various funding opportunities available for Tribes and other initiatives going on within the National Park Service.
About our Presenter:
Dorothy FireCloud is a member of the Sicangu (See-chan-guu) Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) Tribe of South Dakota.
In October 2020, Ms. FireCloud became the Native American Affairs Liaison, Assistant to the Director, in the National Park Service (NPS). She is responsible for ensuring the NPS meets the requirements of the DOI Policy on Consultation with Tribal Nations, developing service-wide guidance, reviewing proposed policy and legislation to advise and support the Director on issues impacting Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities.
From 2012 to 2020, she served as Superintendent at two Puebloan NPS sites, Montezuma Castle National Monument and Tuzigoot National Monument in the Verde Valley of Arizona. She first joined the National Park Service in 2006, as Superintendent of Devils Tower National Monument, a site of significant spiritual connection to her tribe.
Ms. FireCloud has a Juris Doctorate from the New Mexico School of Law and has been a member of the New Mexico State Bar since 1991.
Who Should Attend:
We welcome any Department of the Interior staff and partners, and anyone else who may be involved with tribes or who wish to learn more about working with tribes.
We will record this broadcast and upload it to the NCTC Broadcast Gallery 2 weeks after the event. Access the NCTC Broadcast Gallery’s Indigenous Speaker Series.