Bill Yellowtail
| William P. Yellowtail | |
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| Former member of the Montana Senate | |
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In office 1985–1993 |
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January 8, 1948 Wyola, Montana, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Margarette Carlson-Yellowtail |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
William "Bill" Yellowtail (born January 8, 1948) is former Montana State Senator from Wyola, Montana, on the Crow Indian Reservation in South-Eastern Montana, and a member of the federally recognized Crow (Apsaalooke) Tribe.
Bill Yellowtail grew up on his family's cattle ranch on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies after a brief period of absence from the college.
Yellowtail served on the Montana Senate from 1985 to 1993, representing Big Horn, Rosebud and Powder River counties and was a Regional Administrator of Region VIII of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1994 to 1996, from which he stepped down. Later in the year, he ran an unsuccessful campaign against Republican Rick Hill for Montana's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. He was defeated in a controversial campaign notorious for mudslinging efforts by himself and Hill. He then returned to the EPA in late 1996 to his former post, but suffered further scandal for allegedly unknowingly violating the Hatch Act in 2000.
Yellowtail is now an employee with Off the Beaten Path in Bozeman, Montana, and has served on the boards of directors for the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy in Montana, the National Audubon Society, and the Humanities Montana organization. In addition, he serves on the advisory committee for the One Montana nonprofit organization. As a prominent Crow Indian, he recently served as the MSU Emeritus Katz Chair in Native American Studies and advocated for tribal relations with the EPA during his tenure as its Region VIII Administrator.
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