In Good Faith, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

PRESIDENT

Born and raised in eastern Montana, Dr. Orlan J. Svingen began his teaching career at the St. Labre Indian School on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana. After graduate school, he worked as a researcher at a consulting firm specializing in American Indian litigation support before moving on to academic positions where he taught, published scholarly work, and trained students in public history. Svingen developed and directed a series of public history field schools, directing and co-directing six since 2007. He has worked on American Indian water rights, repatriation, American Indian federal recognition research, American Indian voting rights, as well as American Indian hunting rights. Most recently he worked in film-making endeavors as an executive director for a historical documentary and a short dramatic movie focusing on American Indian treaty ®.

VICE PRESIDENT

An enrolled Northern Shoshoni, Judge Leo T. Arriwite was born and raised in the Lemhi Valley of Idaho, moving to the Fort Hall Indian Reservation while he was in high school. After graduating from the Idaho Peace Officers Standards and Training Academy, Class #40, Arriwite has been active in a variety of law enforcement and Tribal Court roles with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police, and other Pacific Northwest tribes. He was the Tribal Liaison and Historical Researcher with the Language and Culture Preservation Department with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Arriwite has also been active in teaching and co-teaching a number of cultural enrichment programs within the tribal setting as well as with area universities and state agencies. When he is not processing and tanning hides for the “gauntlet-style” gloves for which he is known, he is teaching, hunting, fishing, camping, and harvesting lodgepole pine tipi poles. See NMAI, “Gloves that Run the Gauntlet.”

TREASURER & SECRETARY

Jared Chastain's film work includes credits for co-producer, script supervisor, drone operator, and talking head. Chastain is currently treasurer of In Good Faith, Inc., a non-profit 501c3 that he co-owns with Dr. Orlan Svingen and Leo Arriwite, a Northern Shoshone enrolled at Fort Hall. He is experienced as a stage actor, writer, and director of full-length stage productions and professional comedy shows. He has spent the last ten years researching Chief Tendoy of the Northern Shoshone and their ancestor Sacajawea. In his personal time, he is an event coordinator for restaurant and venue spaces in eastern Washington.