OKLAHOMA CITY — W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe chairman and CEO, was named to the National Native American Hall of Fame along with five other Indian Country individuals during a gala in Oklahoma City.

This year’s inductees, who also included Deb Haaland — the first Native American to serve as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior — were drawn from fields such as government, military and athletics, and were celebrated at a gala on Nov. 1.

Hall of Fame representatives noted that Allen “has demonstrated strong leadership, uncanny wisdom and a genuine commitment to improve the lives of American Indian and Alaska Native peoples across the United States.”

“It is a big honor to be inducted,” Allen said in his acceptance speech. “We do what we do because we are driven by the spirit.”

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