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Mervin Wright Jr

NATIVE HYDROLOGIST AND POLICY ANALYST

MY CONTACT:

277 Eagle Street

P.O. Box 79

Nixon, NV 89424 


I want to provide policy analyst and hydrologic consultant services from a unique perspective applying traditional knowledge, historical, and a modern regulatory understanding primarily for the utilization of local and regional natural resources. In addition, with this knowledge and experience I have conducted work with tribal cultural resources, environmental protection, fishery, land management, state and federal policy and law, and tribal governance.

MY EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE


  • Diplomatic federal-state relations
  • Hydrologic Resources
  •  Tribal Water Rights Management
  • Agriculture/Irrigation Resources


EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE

  

  • Negotiation – tribal resources
  • Sovereign jurisdiction
  • Protecting tribal interests
  • Congressional testimony
  • Native Amercan Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

EXPERIENCE

KNOWLEDGE

   

  • Tribal governance
  • Tribal representation
  • Self-reliance and self determination
  • Effective leadership

  

KNOWLEDGE

KNOWLEDGE

KNOWLEDGE

  

  • Ancestral past
  • Traditional knowledge
  • Proper communication

KNOWLEDGE

  

  • Cautious preparation
  • Teamwork problem solving
  • Impartial and fair

KNOWLEDGE

  

  • Tribal law and custom
  • Technical application
  • Respect and Humility

Frequently Asked Questions

If your question is not answered here, please emaill me at mkarlwjr@gmail.com

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.


EXPERTISE

    Western civilization evolved at such a quick pace that rules, laws, regulations, and policy was developed simultaneously as needs were realized and actions were required. Many of the rules were man-made in entirety without foresight with understanding the impact of the rulemaking decisions. 

western civilization

   The western landscapes have been altered and will maintain a level of a continued alteration because of the manner that society demands will cause pressures upon natural resources management. The role of mankind should be humble as well as deliberate in its endeavor to maintain a sense of survival while balancing the use of its natural resources.

resource management

Presentations

I recently made four presentations, at the University of Arizona Law School, at the Nevada Water Resource Association, at the EPA Region 9 Regional Tribal Operations Committee, and at the EPA Region 9 Annual Conference. I selected a few slides from each presentation and talk about them in the Resource Management Section.

Mervin Wright

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