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COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW: SHAWN YANITY
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The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . Shawn is the former Chair and Fisheries Manager of the Stillaguamish Tribe. He is also the former Chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Shawn provided personal recollections about the Fish Wars and the Boldt Decision, which happened when he was nine years old. His tribe was not federally recognized at the time, had been fighting for recognition since the 1950s. Their…
Directors & creators
Interviewee: Shawn Yanity, Interviewer: Jennifer Huntley, Videographer: Michael Peters
Subjects
Collaborative Governance, American Indian Tribes, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Dispute Resolution, Environment, Facilitation, Mediation, Natural Resources, Public Policy, Washington State, Stillaguamish Tribe
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