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Mr.
Joseph B. DeLaCruz
Chair
holder 1998 - 2000
Mr. Joseph B. DeLaCruz, the former President of
the Quinault Indian Nation (for thirty years), former twice elected
president of the National Congress of American Indians, former twice
elected president of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association,
Co-Chair with former Attorney General of Arizona and Secretary
of the Interior Bruce Babbit of the National Council on Tribal State
Relations, and Co-Chair with former Governor Daniel J. Evans of the
Northwest Renewable Resource Center, and the North American
Representative to the World Council of Indigenous Peoples a man
of many honors. In 1998, the CWIS Board of Directors appointed Joe
DeLaCruz as the first occupant of the Joe Tallakson Chair for Public
Policy. He distinguished himself and the memory of Joe
Tallakson by giving voice to the tribally initiated
self-governance movement, promotion of tribal health policies
recognizing the underlying trauma experienced by Indian
peoples as a major factor in social and health problems in
Indian Country. President DeLaCruz died in April 2000.
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Forum
For Global Exchange
Joe Tallakson Chair for
Public Policy
(Our Search Continues for a qualified occupant)
Mr. Joe Tallakson (1943 - 1995) was the leading Indian rights
advocate on behalf of American Indians working as a community
organizer on the Quinault Indian Reservation and then in the final
twenty years of his life as a superbly effective Indian Rights
lobbyist working in the halls of the United States Congress. Joe
Tallakson could be said to have been single handledly responsible
for passage of more favorable legislation protecting and advancing
Indian Rights than any organization or single person in the second
half of the 20th Century. Mr. Tallakson was an active supporter of
the Center for World Indigenous Studies and sat as a CWIS Founding
Board Member from the first days of the Center until his untimely
death. Because of his great contributions to Indian Rights in the
United States, his unswerving support of Fourth World peoples around
the world the CWIS Board of Directors voted to establish the Joe
Tallakson Chair for Public Policy shortly after his passing.
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