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Office of Tribal Relations
Tribal Relations & Community Engagement
The Office of Tribal Relations (OTR) leads the campus in developing and maintaining genuine reciprocal relationships with tribal governments. By recognizing tribal sovereignty and cultural leadership the OTR solicits consistent tribal consultation to strengthen academics, policies, and strategies impacting students and communities.
Tribal Lands
Cal Poly Humboldt campus resides in Goudi’ni (Arcata) the lands of the Wiyot People and the Marine Lab is located at Chuerey (Trinidad) which is Yurok territory. There are 13 federally recognized tribes surrounding the campus: Wiyot Tribe, Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, Blue Lake Rancheria, Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, Big Lagoon Rancheria, Pulikla Tribe of the Yurok People, Yurok Tribe, Elk Valley Rancheria, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, Quartz Valley Indian Community, Karuk Tribe, Hoopa Valley Tribe, and Redding Rancheria.
Each tribe plays an integral role in providing a “Placed Based Learning” environment for all students. They provide internship and employment placements, sponsorships, sport training facilities, lodging, student housing, conference spaces, guest presentations, and a multitude of faculty and staff collaborations.
Joint Native American Advisory Council
A partnership between Cal Poly Humboldt, College of the Redwoods (CR) and thirteen local tribal nations is a collaborative effort to establish regular communication between the colleges and tribes. Designing dynamic Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between leaders, bi-annual tribal summits, conferences, grant writing, training, and youth activities are examples of the existing partnerships.
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Special Assistant Tribal Relations & Community Engagement
Adrienne Colegrove-Raymond (Hupa/Yurok) an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe serves as the Special Assistant for Tribal Relations and Community Engagement for the Office of the President.
Adrienne strengthens consultation and communication between tribes and the administration. This work is designed with the goal of developing genuine reciprocal relationships between tribes and Cal Poly Humboldt. Her work assists in ensuring that students have a positive experience as they build skills useful for working in tribal communities. She oversees data collection of American Indian students and relationships between the Native support programs and the campus faculty, staff, and administration. She arranges tribal summits and oversees the president's Joint Native American Advisory Council, made up of representatives from the surrounding Federally recognized tribal nations residing within the campus service area including the two largest California tribes.
The last twenty years of her work has encompassed Native student success, culturally relevant co-curricular programming, early outreach, grant writing, community building, strength-based planning, and serving disadvantaged communities - specifically foster youth.
She is a graduate of Cal Poly Humboldt with a degree in journalism, emphasis in public relations and a Master of Business Administration.