Bill Yellowtail
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Bill Yellowtail (b. 1/081948) is an American politician from Wyola, Montana. He is a 1971 graduate of Dartmouth College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography and Environmental Studies. Yellowtail served on the Montana Senate from 1985 to 1993 representing Big Horn, Rosebud and Powder River Counties and was a Regional Administrator for the EPA. In 1996, he ran an unsuccessful campaign against Republican Rick Hill for Montana's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. Yellowtail is now an employee with Off the Beaten Path in Bozeman, Montana, serves on the board of directors for the Burton K. Wheeler Center for Public Policy, based at Montana State University, as well as the National Audubon Society and has recently been tabbed as MSU endowed chair in Native American Studies[1]. He has a wife, Margarette Carlson-Yellowtail; and one child.
