User:Hamishmish/Marlowe Sam

Article Draft
Marlowe Gregory Sam, (sarge) is a member of the Colville Tribes of Washington State, born in 1952. In 2013, he was one of the first two indigenous people to get a Ph.D at University of British Columbia Okanagan. Sam's research is focused on understanding Indigenous water rights.

Sam is an award winning Syilx scholar. He received the UBC Okanagan Medal of Arts in his undergraduate degree. Sam's Master thesis was titled: Okanagan water systems: an historical retrospect of control, domination and change and his Doctoral dissertation was titled: Oral narratives, customary laws and indigenous water rights in Canada. Sam has also contributed to the exhibit The Social Life of Water, which was showcased at the Kelowna Museum in 2016.