Great Plains tribes honor White House aide Gillette
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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Politics
The Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association honored Jodi Gillette, a member of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, on Monday night.
Gillette grew up on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and worked for the
Native American Training Institute
in Bismarck, North Dakota. After serving on the Barack Obama campaign last year, she got the call to go to the
White House.
"When she went over, Itold her 'I don't think you're going to get hired,'" Gillette's father, Dave Archambault, told The Bismarck Tribune. "That they wanted somebody that knew reservations in the Obama administration really says something for her, and for him, too."
Gillette is the first Native American to serve as a director in the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. She works as a liaison between tribes and the federal government.
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