Tribal wisdom can save nature in Yellowstone and beyond

Wes Martel — Greater Yellowstone Coalition

In 2021, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition opened its first office on the Wind River Indian Reservation with the hiring of Wes Martel. Wes was brought on to lead the new GYC Tribal branch and work with Tribal partners to elevate Indigenous voices and protect the cultural, spiritual, and ecological integrity of Greater Yellowstone.

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Wes Martel is a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe. He served on the Shoshone Business Council for 20 years. During this time, Mr. Martel devoted most of his attention to water, taxation, energy and environment and the interconnection to reservation economic growth and tribal sovereignty. He served on the Tribal Fish and Game Committee when a.

Wes Martel — Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Wes Martel has dedicated his life to tribal governance. In the broken promises and treaties that make up the relationship between the tribes and the US government, Wes sees promise in the cooperation between the tribes. Through the strengthening of cooperation and improved governance, the tribes can use existing laws to protect their land.

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Wes Martel, Senior Wind River Conservation Associate, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and Member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe "For our people, Yellowstone is so many things: our pharmacy, our.

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—Wes Martel, Senior Wind River Conservation Associate (Eastern Shoshone) The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is the land of 49+ Indigenous Tribes who maintain current and ancestral connections to the lands, waters, wildlife, plants, and more.

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Wes Martel speaks about the return of buffalo, tribal governance, water codes and the need to adapt. He tells the story of how his elders approved of the concept of paying for water rights as a way of respecting the new buffalo which in the white man's world is the dollar. The important issue is to use this new buffalo in the right way - to.

Wes Martel of the Wind River Reservation speaks in regards to Tribal

Wes Martel is on a mission. In his role as the Wind River Conservation Associate with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC), Martel serves almost as an intermediary between Native American tribes and local governments, representing tribal interests in a society that has for generations overlooked native rights.

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WES MARTEL SENIOR WIND RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATE. Wes works on an important segment of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem which is the Wind River Indian Reservation. The mission of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, to protect the lands, water, and wildlife of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, fits in with Indigenous values and beliefs.

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Just 42 miles from Yellowstone National Park and roughly the same size, the reservation is a vital part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wes Martel, GYC's senior Wind River conservation associate, affectionately refers to the reservation as "Indigenous Yellowstone," cheerfully saying, "We have everything here but Old Faithful!"

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Wes Martel: I spent 20 years on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council. And when I first got on in 1979, the big issue that was firing up was the Big Horn adjudication. And just my first two weeks on the council, we started talking about - we had a whole bunch of attorneys and engineers and hydrologists and consultants and fed reps and all kinds.

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Thanks to the grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, our team is ready to elevate Tribal conservation priorities within this important corner of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem," said Wes Martel in a press release, who's Eastern Shoshone and is the Senior Wind River Conservation Associate with the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.

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Wes Martel is the Senior Wind River Conservation Associate for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Previously, Martel served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council for twenty years where he oversaw programs and legislation dealing with water, taxation, energy, and environment.

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Tribal Water Activist. A member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, Wes Martel served on the Eastern Shoshone Business Council for twenty years. During this time, he devoted most of his attention to water, taxation, energy, and the environment, and the importance of these four areas to reservation economic growth and tribal sovereignty.

Tribal wisdom can save nature in Yellowstone and beyond

At age 75, longtime American Indian leader Wes Martel stays vital, current and indispensable. After decades in tribal government, he now is making important strides for Wyoming and his people in a.

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At age 75, longtime American Indian leader Wes Martel stays vital, current and indispensable. After decades in tribal government, he now is making important.