Monte Gray is Lead General Counsel for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation in southeastern Idaho. He joined the Tribes' Office of Tribal Attorneys in 2015 and advises the Fort Hall Business Council on the Tribes' treaty rights and land interests, including environmental regulation, amendments to the Tribes' treaties, and right-of-way negotiations.

He currently serves as lead counsel for the Tribes in United States v. Oregon (seeking recognition of off reservation fishing rights in the Columbia River); Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Simplot/USA in the Blackrock Land Exchange(preventing enlargement of toxic waste storage next to the reservation boundary); in Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. United States, Union Pacific Railroad, and City of Pocatello and the related United States v. Union Pacific Railroad, in which the Tribes intervened (seeking recognition of tribal land rights pursuant to treaty amendments); and in the Hells Canyon FERC relicensing (recognition of off reservation rights in the rivers affected by the dams).

His work with the Tribes heavily focuses on land related issues.  He handles matters ranging from power and gas rights-of-ways to off reservation hunting and fishing rights to environmental issues.  He contributed to amicus briefing in Herrera v. Wyoming, and directs the Tribes' regulatory jurisdiction over contaminated lands at the Eastern Michaud Flats Superfund site

Mr. Gray practiced commercial litigation and bankruptcy in Pocatello from 1999 to 2015 and received the Idaho State Bar's 2014 Professionalism Award and the 2009 Denise O'Donnell Day Pro Bono Award. He holds a B.B.A. from Idaho State University in Accounting and a J.D. from the University of Idaho, and is licensed in Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Court, the Idaho state and federal courts, the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gaylen Edmo possesses firsthand knowledge and experience in navigating complex issues facing both the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Tribes) and tribal governments throughout Indian Country from his personal, professional, and educational experience; anchored by the experiences of his ancestors.

Gaylen is a proud Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member and lifelong resident of the Fort Hall Reservation, which was set aside by both executive order and the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty (Treaty; 15 Stat.673). He is also a descendant of the Hannahville Indian Community, Band of Potawatomi in the upper peninsula of Michigan. He grew up on the reservation watching and learning first-hand from his family members who served in Tribal leadership on the Fort Hall Business Council (FHBC), governing body of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. Gaylen knew at an early age that he also wanted to serve his people on his own path. To support this, he understood the need to secure, and was supported by his family to gain,  formal education to support the knowledge passed on by his mentors to facilitate what he views as integrating the knowledge bases of two, often times widely divergent institutions: 1) the knowledge passed on throughout generations stemming from the immemorial lifeways of his people and as reserved by their taikwahnii (leaders/bosses); and 2) the accepted contemporary measuring stick utilized of one’s knowledge held, in formal education.

Gaylen attended Highland High School in Pocatello, Idaho where he was a standout athlete in both wrestling and football. He was a multi time high school all-American and state champion in wrestling in addition to being a state champion and multi time all-state football player. Gaylen chose to pursue wrestling at the next level, and committed to wrestle at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, choosing the academy amongst numerous division-one offers. One of his favorite memories of growing up is watching college recruiting coaches travel from throughout the country to meet him and his family at his childhood home in “new housing” in the Fort Hall townsite on the reservation. He received congressional nomination to attend the USNA. After attending the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Newport, RI, he made the decision to transfer to Boise State University where he finished his collegiate athletic career and transitioned into higher academic pursuit. After graduating from BSU on the Dean’s list with an undergraduate in Environmental Studies and minor in Sustainability, he attended the University of Idaho, College of Law where he also graduated on the Dean’s list with double emphases in Federal Indian Law and Natural Resources – Environmental Law. Gaylen gained crucial experience in legal and tribal advocacy throughout law school and after, through various positions such as adjunct teaching at his alma mater, clerking with the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, Native American Rights Fund, the Echo Hawk & Olsen law firm, and multiple tribal governments including his own.

In 2022, Gaylen was elected by his Tribal membership to serve in Tribal leadership. He was honored to serve his people in this capacity and create positive change through numerous actions of the Council. Gaylen’s term ended in 2024, wherein he accepted the position of the Tribes’ Fish and Wildlife Policy Analyst, working alongside the Tribes’ long-serving Tribal member directors, Chad Colter (F&W) and Bret Haskett retired (F&G), under the supervision of the Tribes’ Fish and Game Commission working in major Treaty rights matters such as United States v. Oregon, and more, to protect and enhance the Tribes’ reserved Treaty right to hunt.

In early 2026, Gaylen transitioned into his current role in the Tribal government as the Tribes’  Assistant General Counsel, where he assists in all aspects of Tribal government with Lead General Counsel Monte Gray and the FHBC, but continues to work closely with the Tribes’ Fish & Wildlife  and Fish & Game Enforcement Departments and represents the Tribes amongst its attorney team in US v. OR. Gaylen seeks to advocate in the realm of Treaty hunting, fishing, and gathering as these immemorial lifeways are a fundamental part of his personal life, just as it is for his fellow Tribal members. Gaylen’s positions in the Tribes have allowed him to gain experience in navigating complex issues and remedies both internal of the Tribes and externally amongst other tribes, organizations, state governments, the federal government and its various agencies and officials in various forums be it administrative, legislative, judicial, government-to-government and more. This experience coupled with his lived experiences as a Tribal member practicing and living the very rights he protects in his work, affords a unique perspective on Tribal sovereignty and what that fully encapsulates and means, in present-day.

Gaylen’s greatest achievement is establishing his family and second, passing on the knowledge of his Tribes, its various bands and lifeways to the next generation, as his ancestors provided for him. He is married to Alana (Baldwin) Edmo, who is also a Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member and Tribal employee and they have two sons Orrin Wayne Edmo and Jovanii Hoopah-gah Baldwin. When Gaylen isn’t at his desk in the Tribal Business Center he spends his free time exercising and carrying on the Tribes’ Treaty reserved right to hunt, fish, and gather or rather obtaining wild food of all forms both animate and inanimate, just as his ancestors have throughout the Tribes’ distinct history spanning generations; long before the signing of any treaties and long before the founding of this Country as recognized in the law… as established in time-immemorial, on the unoccupied lands of the United States.