United South and Eastern Tribes appoints new executive director

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - For years before Mike Cook became executive director of United South and Eastern Tribes, he dreamed about landing this job.

Cook, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe at Akwesasne, N.Y., is in the process of moving his wife and their two youngest children to Nashville, where he recently started his appointment as executive director of USET, one of the largest nonprofit, intertribal organizations in the country, representing 24 federally acknowledged tribes in both regional and national arenas.

''It's very humbling. This is a dream position of mine that I'd been looking at for a long time. I see this as doing something I've really wanted to do for Indian country,'' Cook told Indian Country Today.

Cook has been involved with USET since the 1980s while working for the St. Regis Mohawk. At that time, a member of Cook's tribe was elected president of the organization and participated directly in USET meetings and other activities.

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