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Consultants
The NAGA consulting team includes an impressive group of highly qualified individuals, each bringing a depth of knowledge and experience in the following areas of expertise:
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American Indian issues, culture, and history
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Academic research
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Teaching and training
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Strategic planning and consulting
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Event planning and participation
The following are just a few members of our consulting team:
Andre Billeaudeaux
Andre Billeaudeaux was an award-winning research student of Stanford Psychologist Dr. Phil Zimbardo. He is journal published on such topics as “Communications Inoculation”, National Identity and Race. He is considered an "Expert" on the history and traditions of the Redskins - Redskin Warriors - by the State of Pennsylvania. In 2019 he concluded an 18 month fellowship with the US Government where he cofounded the Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security “think tank” in Monterey Ca where he focused on issues and themes of PTSD recovery, school shootings, climate change and national unity - all as national priorities. His research on Redskins & Redmen provided for the core arguments provided in the successful 1st Amendment Federal Court Amicus “REDSKINS” Brief (along with 4 Time Navajo President and Code Talker Peter MacDonald & others) in helping protect native culture based on a philosophy of “Educate not Eradicate”. Similarly, he lead in the successful defense of Neshaminy REDSKINS in their recent “keep” decision of their name against their state’s Human Relations Council’s three year long investigation into the name. In this instance he was both deposed and subject to public hearings where he diffused arguments from the state’s - and the “Not Your Mascot” leading experts on name change. The goal of Educate not Eradicate is to propagate positive Native American education in schools, to include modification of imagery where necessary and to promote traditions among all culture groups as part of an education enhancement movement based on nation’s vision of E. Pluribus Unum or “From many we are one”. He is, like a majority of Americans, part Native American and seeks to maintain the rich cultural history and traditions of Native America in the public; - especially at and within public schools which he believes should be “centers of excellence” in teaching and sharing the quickly disappearing history of the continent’s first people.
Eunice Davidson
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(Good Star Woman)
Eunice Davidson is a Native American Guardians Association Board Member. She was the first presiding President and a founding member of the NAGA grassroots movement. Eunice is a full-blood Dakota Sioux and an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Tribe from North Dakota. She grew up on the Spirit Lake reservation and attended school there and at Flandreau Indian school. She is married to David Davidson, Sr. and has two children, three grandchildren, and one great granddaughter. Eunice returned to receive her education after her children were married and on their own. She received a two-year degree in Liberal Arts and Dakota Studies from Cankdeska Cikana Community College from Spirit Lake, ND. After attending a year at Fort Berthold Community College, she went unto receive her BA degree in Education from Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD. Eunice is now a certified Genealogist from IAP Career College and works for many around the world in helping clients finding their roots and history. She says this is her passion and dream job. Eunice was an active member of the Spirit Lake Committee for Understanding and Respect and was instrumental in gathering names on a petition and putting the Fighting Sioux name and logo issue on the ballot, where Spirit Lake tribal members had a chance to vote on the Sioux name. The Spirit Lake Tribal members voted in the largest election turnout ever and voted by a margin of 2 to 1 in April of 2009 at 67% to keep the Sioux name at UND. She also authored a book “Aren’t We Sioux Enough” ironic she got the idea of the title of her book from a federal judge who presided over their case against the NCAA. Eunice believes in education not eradication. Eunice is a direct descendent of ancestors who earned a place in history. Her ancestor Waanatan has a distinguished history as a Yankton leader who earned his name Waanatan (Charger) during an attack on Fort Stevens in Ohio in 1813 where he was wounded numerous times but kept on charging. Inkpaduta who declared war on the white’s in 1857 and was at every major battle the Sioux fought including Little Big Horn and was never captured even though he was on the most wanted list from 1857 till 1882 when he passed away in Sioux Valley, Canada. Tiyowaste (Goodhouse) who was the very first head chief of the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe beginning in 1867. She received her Indian name from her Uncle who was a spiritual leader on the reservation in a naming ceremony, she was honored to be given the name of her 5th generation Grandmother who was interned at Fort Snelling, Minnesota between 1862 – 63 just after the Dakota Sioux Uprising.
Michael Larranaga
Dr. Michael Larrañaga's Native American heritage is Tewa Pueblo. His ancestry relates to the San Ildefonso Pueblo. Dr. Michael Larrañaga is Co-Founder, President, and managing Principal of R.E.M. Risk Consultants (www.remrisk.com), a comprehensive environmental, safety, and health consulting firm with experience in strategic decision-making, risk management, business continuity, process safety, and operational excellence. Dr. Larrañaga is co-founder of the Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security Initiative at the United States Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security and is an appointed member of the Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee of the World Trade Center Health Program (formerly the 9/11 Medical Monitoring Program) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Opioid Working Group. He previously served as an appointed public member on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the DHS First Responders Group. Previously, Dr. Larrañaga was Simplex Professor and Department Head of the School of Fire Protection and Safety at Oklahoma State University (OSU). He is a graduate of NPS, OSU, Texas Tech, and the University of Houston Clear Lake.
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Chief Walt Brown III served eighteen years as Chief of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe and fifteen years as Chairman of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribal Heritage Foundation; to include, eight years on the Southampton County Board of Supervisors; to include, twenty-three years of service in the US Army, as a Commission officer, LT Colonel, US Army (Ret), with a wealth of leadership, managerial, supervisory, and policy execution experience in a wide array of duties germane to logistics, management, operations, project management, contract administration, public relations, and team building. Positions held were related to community consensus building and implementation of policy, guidance, and procedures requiring research and attention to “safety” and detail. Additionally, formerly positioned as Census 2000 Manager for Congressional District #4 equipped with the necessary tools to contribute to organization’s short and long-range goals. Leadership style, project management experience, and interpersonal skills, coupled with a unique blend of administrative, operational, safety, with a superlative knowledge of Virginia Native American History, and teaching experiences, makes a candidate suited for a position within the organization. Gave Native American History presentations to Elementary School Students, Teachers, Historical Societies, Museums, Archeological Society of Virginia, Libraries, and Military Installations throughout Southside Virginia / Hampton Roads Virginia; to include, the Smithsonian, totaling some 500,000 individuals over a 7- year period. As Tribal Historian, researched, documented and wrote the history of the tribe now captured under the byline “Creator My Heart Speaks” an “Ethno-Historic Snapshot” of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe currently depicted in six tribal journals – the Waskehee, all of which are archived in the Library of Virginia; to include, on the tribe’s website. Appeared on a number of Televisions networks; to include, Wavy TV 10, Andy Fox’s “My Hampton Roads” presenting the History of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe – more than 1 million viewers, coordinated / setup 26 Native American Powwows throughout Southside Virginia, lead the Tribal Government/Council and Tribal Heritage Foundation Board of Directors in the coordination and reclaiming, by way of purchase, 263 Acres of Tribal Land that was once part of the former 41,000 Acres of Reservation Land granted by the House of Burgess in 1705 in Southampton County Virginia, coordinated and setup annual School Days for visits to Cattashowrock Town, a Tribal Iroquoian replica 17 Century Palisade Fort/Village, averaging some 1,000 Elementary School Students and Teachers per School Day. Instrumental in obtaining VA State Recognition in 2010 as a Virginia State Recognized Iroquoian Indian Tribe of Southampton County Virginia – SJR 127 and HJR 171.