Davis Washines

Affiliation

Yakama Nation

Track

Biography

Davis currently serves as Government Relations Liaison for the Yakama Nation's Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Program, assigned to the Superfund Section. His role is to communicate and coordinate our toxic clean-up efforts in the Columbia River Basin with numerous federal, tribal, state and local governments and their agencies. Based on his past experience at the policy level as an elected official for the Yakama Nation, Davis coordinates our CRB toxic clean-up projects with the political and administrative leadership at the respective federal, tribal and state levels. As a recognized traditional knowledge keeper and speaker, he provides the Yakama Nation perspective regarding our time immemorial connection to the water, land and all other natural resources to other governments and agencies, including our US Constitutionally guaranteed legal rights as protected by virtue of the US-Yakama Treaty of 1855 (12 Stat.951).