Mervin Wright Jr., grew up on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in western Nevada and where he has lived most of my life. After high school he left for seven years to attend college out of state. His vast knowledge and experience are exhibited in the resume and professional biography. His exclusive perspective demonstrates a complete understanding of indigenous society, its socioeconomic status, cultural existence, and political stature. His intention is to engage with administrative management applying steadfast informed advisement through a collaborative and collective teamwork process.

Mervin comes from a traditional knowledge background performing and participating in ceremony since 1990. Conducting himself with humility and respect which has guided him to become a strong advocate and effective leader. Gravitating to cultural resources and protecting our ancestral past continues to be a duty as representation is needed for ancestral collections. A dual characteristic exists where we hold true to our traditional past while at the same time conducting active professional business in a modern-day society. The role here is to assist and provide advice to promote, protect, and strive to achieve meeting the goals and objectives of a respective client.

Mervin’s primary knowledge and experience is hydrology. Water is essential and is involved with most, if not all our natural resources. In almost every situation we face, there is always a demand or a need of resources by someone that is without it.  There are good and effective negotiations, as well as those that do not go well at all. The interests of tribal People and its qualified connectedness to our physical surroundings forms the foundation with valuing longstanding traditions. As human beings and we must cope with living alongside and within society exhibiting a shared sense of our controlled resources.

The history of the United States’ established laws, regulations, and policies was a response to the developing needs of the country. The tenets of trust are the legal binding principle of the historical relationship with Tribes. Understanding the sovereign jurisdictional status and its ability to interact, engage, and serve its purpose for its People is the backbone to cope and exist within the U.S. Knowing the extent of the system will provide the best means for advising and offering the best recommendation.

To gain a collective understanding and knowledge base of the tribal need and to develop a formidable position regarding the use and management of a respective natural and/or cultural resource. The services for which is proposed herewith contains a perspective with the knowledge of understanding balance, a balance between demand and supply, and that balance which exists with the ecological integrity of our living ecosystem. The societal lifeway requires a sense of knowledge that recognizes knowing our integral past to that which becomes our integral future. It is with humility that advice will be derived from those with the intimate connection to the natural and/or cultural resource.