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| Gary Dorr (right) at Reject and Protect in Wash., D.C. |
Gary Dorr was the Media Coordinator for the Rosebud Sioux
Tribe’s Shield the People project.
Gary served over 11 years in the United States Army as a
military police sergeant. He has several
combat deployments in the Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia area, and a total of
four years in the Republic of South Korea.
After his service he attended Haskell Indian Nations University where he
graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
in 2004.
After graduating from Haskell, he worked for several years
in the field of Tribal Land Management for the Coeur d’Alene and Nez Perce
Tribes in Idaho. This is where he firmly
established himself as and remains an active advocate for tribal landowners’
rights.
He maintains a personal relationship to the land as a landowner,
hunter, traditional salmon-gaffer, and gatherer under the stipulations reserved
to the Nez Perce People in their 1855 treaty with the United States. Gary also served as an elected member of the
Nez Perce Tribe Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Gary served as a buffalo hunt coordinator and treaty language
representative to the Nez Perce Tribe Executive Committee.
Gary first came to the effort to stop the Keystone XL pipeline
as a grassroots supporter before coming on as the Media Coordinator for the
Shield the People project. He is
committed to establishing a working relationship that will advance the reserved
rights of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe as they fight to keep the proposed Keystone
XL pipeline from encroaching upon the resources of the Tribe. He is available to set up meetings with the
Shield the People Project and will closely coordinate working with other groups
who have the same objectives in stopping the proposed Keystone XL
pipeline and other environmental issues.
