Stewards-Indigenous Resources
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Stewards of Indigenous Resources Endowment ("SIRE") invites you to assist our mission in providing needed trust and estate planning services and education to Native American Indians and heirs of Native American Indian decedent who die without a will. To the Individual Native American Indian: SIRE offers you tools for writing your Indian Will in compliance with the American Indian Probate Reform Act of 2004 ("AIPRA").

Estate planning documents are defined such as Advance Health Care Directive i.e. Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney and provided for incapacitation or end of life planning. To the Indian Nation: Based on your invitation, SIRE offers you the opportunity to have a licensed attorney travel to your Nation for six to eight weeks to work directly with your tribal members.
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SIRE's Board of Directors and I congratulate you for considering creating an estate plan to provide great peace of mind for you and those you love. Researching the estate planning process for Indian trust lands can be daunting but we hope this website will help you with this important planning.

Writing an Indian will and developing an estate plan allows you to decide who will receive your trust and non-trust property and how assets will be used when you are gone.An estate plan also allows parents to name guardians for minor children. In addition to providing for loved ones, an estate plan can make your wishes known regarding healthcare decisions and charitable intentions.
I understand that your time is valuable and limited, so I will get straight to the point. According to the 2010 U.S. census, there are approximately 5.2 million Native Americans living in the United States. However, a significant percentage of this population lives in poverty, in part, as a result of lacking the information and means to preserve Indian estates.
Ms. Armstrong began her career as a dual engineer, chemical engineer and paper science and engineering, with the Kimberly-Clark Corporation where she worked in a managerial capacity for six years. She received a JD from the University of Washington School of Law and have completed an extensive internship with the Institute of Indian Estate Planning and Probate working with the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon.
Mr. Halliday was raised in Seattle, Washington along Thorton Creek on the shores of Lake Washington and a member of the Seattle All American Indian Dancers, a dance group founded by Mr. Halliday's patents, Jim Halliday and Jeanne Thomas. This group performed in the Seattle area in the 1960s and 1970s where they attended many culture events and traveled throughout the Pacific Northwest during the summers.
I am Roberta Armstrong, Founder and Executive Director of Stewards of Indigenous Resources Endowment ("SIRE"). SIRE is a non-profit professional service corporation that I created in 2007 to help a Nation of people who were the catalyst in giving meaning and passion to my legal career.

After reading my web page which further explains the direction and intentions I have for the corporation, I encourage you to become part of SIRE and make it your company, too.Prior to my summer 2007 internship with the Institute of Indian Estate Planning and Probate ("Institute"), I had not taken any type of Indian Law course other than recalling the famous case of Johnson v. M'Intosh 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.)
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