Lisa Goree

Lisa Goree (born 1963/1964) is a Native American politician currently serving as chair of the Shinnecock Indian Nation Council of Trustees, the first woman elected to the position.

Biography Goree was born to a single mother and raised on the Shinnecock Reservation (the first, and so far, only federally recognized tribe in Long Island) in Southampton, New York. Later moving northward to Riverhead as a young preteen,

In the late 1980s, Goree married Kirstin Goree, a carpenter, and they moved back to the tribal territory in the early 1990s (Sources vary on the exact year: the New York Times says she moved in 1990, In 2007, she became deputy assessor of the Town of Southampton, and in 2013, she was promoted to tax assessor.) She later announced that one of her goals is to settle the tribe's land dispute with Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.

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