Stephen Greetham has dedicated his 25-year legal career to representing tribal governments in federal and state judicial, legislative, and administrative processes. The core of his practice is focused on protecting and facilitating Tribal exercise of sovereign rights to self-determination within the often doctrinally hostile environment of Federal Indian law. He founded Greetham Law, P.L.L.C., in 2022, but for the bulk of his career, he served as in-house counsel with the Chickasaw Nation and worked with Tribal leadership on matters of natural resource protection, economic development, and intergovernmental relations. Previously, he was a partner in the Nordhaus Law Firm in New Mexico and clerk to the Honorable M. Christina Armijo on the New Mexico Court of Appeals. His work includes the completion of two congressionally approved Tribal water rights settlements; the negotiation and implementation of numerous State-Tribal compacts on matters of taxation, natural resources, gaming, and other issues; the litigation of the United States’ fiduciary obligations to Tribal nations; and the years’-long effort to secure judicial affirmation of certain Tribal reservations in Oklahoma as well as the Tribal development of the government and intergovernmental systems appropriate to governance in those areas. Mr. Greetham is a regular speaker, teacher, and author on federal Indian law matters, focusing particularly on intergovernmental disputes and their management.