2024 NPTEC Candidate – Seat 2: Aaron Gould
Name: Aaron Patrick Gould
Spouse: Jackie McArthur
Children: Cloud Joseph, Julia Elizabeth, Lauren Judith and Johnson Hoyt
Parents: Lyle P. Gould and Judith A. Wasson Gould
Grandparents: Maternal: Norma Delores Parsons Wasson and Glenn Earl Wasson
Paternal: Aaron Roy Gould and Audrey Pauline Pinkham Redheart and Jesse D. Redheart
Great Grandparents: Maternal: William Parsons Jr. and Nancy Holmes Parsons, Thomas R Wasson and Sadie Dyer Wasson
Paternal: Owen J. Gould and Julia Hoyt Gould. Annette Blackeagle Burke and Alexius M. Pinkham Sr.
Education:
Lapwai High School Class of 1994
University of Idaho – History Major. No degree.
Washington State University – History Major. No degree.
Lewis Clark State College – History Major. No degree
Autodidact: Historian (unpublished)
Experience:
Study and application of fisheries management and policy 2005 to present
Fish and Wildlife Commission 2005-2008
Small Business Owner 2008
Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries technical – 19 years
Strong familiarity of past and current litigation of treaty-based resources
What you hope to bring to the NPTEC Table:
Reconciliation of good and bad decisions of our past without violation of our sovereign trust
What issues are important to you:
An accurate accounting of the eight (8) Nez Perce Treaties (1855 – 68)
Nez Perce Repository
Fish
Sacred Economic Security