ShiNaasha Pete

American Forests

ShiNaasha Pete is born E Shawnee, and Ma’ii Deeshgiizhinii, the Coyote Pass People of the Navajo Nation. She resides on the Flathead Indian Reservation in NW Montana where she raises her 16yr old son. She graduated from Salish Kootenai College in Pablo MT with her Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry Wildfire Management. She started working with Whitebark pine restoration in 2014 on an undergrad internship. After graduating, she became the Reforestation Forester for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Forest Development Program. Continuing to work with the T&E species Whitebark pine, from 2019 to 2024 she managed the Reforestation and Whitebark pine restoration programs, continuing to collaborate and implementing CSKT Cultural values back to the land and through the youth and community education. Now as Director of Indigenous and Tribal Partnerships with American Forests, her goals are to repeat the same with Whitebark pine and Reforestation projects all across Indian Country.