Frank Ettawageshik

Executive Director, United Tribes of Michigan

Ettawageshik leads the United Tribes of Michigan and and also serves as treasurer for the Association of American Indian Affairs. He helped secure the adoption of the Tribal and First Nations Great Lakes Water Accord in 2004, an agreement among indigenous tribes to protect the Great Lakes basin from exploitation. In 2015, he attended the negotiations for the Paris Climate Agreement, where he delivered the closing remarks, representing the National Congress of American Indians on behalf of indigenous peoples around the world. During this year’s UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, he introduced a resolution from his tribe supporting a coalition of 2,500 U.S. cities, states, businesses and universities committed to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement, despite President Trump’s intentions to withdraw from the accord.

Frank Ettawageshik. Source: Nexus Media