Past Events
2021 Native American Heritage Month
Many thanks to our guest of honor:
Mervyn Tano
Mr. Tano has decades of experience working with Indian tribes and organizations and has written and taught extensively on Indigenous peoples’ law and policy issues related to climate, risk, cultural resources, heritage management, environmental justice, food and agriculture, and science and technology policy.
Mervyn L. Tano is an attorney and for the past 25 years, President of the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, a law and policy research institution.
Mr. Tano has worked with Indian tribes and organizations for over 40 years with stints as the director of planning and budget at the Administration for Native Americans and as general counsel and director of environmental programs at the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.
He was a member of several national advisory boards including EPA’s Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee, the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, DOE Office of Science and Technology’s Community Leaders Network, and several committees of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Research Council.
Mr. Tano has written and taught extensively on indigenous peoples’ law and policy issues related to climate, risk, cultural resources, heritage management, environmental justice, food and agriculture, and science and technology policy.
Mr. Tano’s presentations were made possible by NAS with support from WVU’s Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and the Eberly College of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Public Administration, Leadership Studies Program, Public History Program, and Department of Geology & Geography
Mr Tano’s 3-part lecture series:
- Dealing with Climate Change: Everything is Connected, Tribal Approaches to Adaption
- Reclaiming Our Spaces: Indigenizing the Museum of the Future
- Boundary Organization: Universities, Indigenous Organizations, & Native Scientists as Nation Builders
Mervyn L. Tano is an attorney and for the past 25 years, President of the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, a law and policy research institution.
Mr. Tano has worked with Indian tribes and organizations for over 40 years with stints as the director of planning and budget at the Administration for Native Americans and as general counsel and director of environmental programs at the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.
He was a member of several national advisory boards including EPA’s Federal Facilities Environmental Restoration Dialogue Committee, the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, DOE Office of Science and Technology’s Community Leaders Network, and several committees of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Research Council.
Mr. Tano has written and taught extensively on indigenous peoples’ law and policy issues related to climate, risk, cultural resources, heritage management, environmental justice, food and agriculture, and science and technology policy.