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Sierra Higheagle is a Water Quality Program Coordinator with the Nez Perce Tribe’s Water Resources Division, and a citizen of the Nez Perce Tribe. Sierra completed her M.S. in 2020 at the University of Idaho focusing on tribal water quality governance and the development of an online GIS and ESRI story map depicting areas of water quality importance to Nimiipuu people across the Pacific Northwest. She currently works on water quality sampling on over 14 tributaries of the Clearwater River and creating restoration projects that aid in the reduction of nonpoint source pollution, among other things. She has also been investigating the Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), occurring more and more frequently, around the Nez Perce Reservation and sampling for the toxins HABs produce. She is an advocate for clean water and a voice when decisions are being made that impact water in a negative way.
Josiah Blackeagle Pinkham was raised on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in north-central Idaho and has worked in the cultural resource field for over 20 years as a Nez Perce Tribal Intern, Tribal Traditions Technician, Ethnographer and a Cultural Specialist. He has also worked on a variety of cultural resource workgroups with several federal, state and county agencies, as well as private corporations and other tribes.
Tribal Water Quality Governance