Nathan Small has served on the Fort Hall Business Council off and on since the late 1980’s. Small was instrumental in opening the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ first gaming operation and served as gaming manager from 1990 to 1998 and from 1991 to 1996 he served as the Treasurer for the National Indian Gaming Association Treasurer. He has been a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Bar Association since 1980 and has held positions as both a prosecutor and public defender in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Courts.

Small also worked for a time in the Tribal Water Resources Department and the Environmental Waste Program advocating for protection of clean environmental resources. He is an original founding Board member of the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) organization that promotes the sovereign rights of large land base Tribes.

He is also an avid fisherman and looks forward to traveling with his family to central Idaho each summer to spear salmon in the traditional way of the Shoshone-Bannock people.

Email: nathan.small@sbtribes.com