Andrew Joseph Sarcinella

Joe Sarcinella is a shareholder at Drummond Woodsum and the Co-Chair of the firm’s national Tribal Nations Service Group. He has served Indian Country as either an attorney, advocate or in nonprofit management for over two decades. Joe’s family is First Nations Lakota/Nakota from Canada, and his wife and children are citizens of the Navajo Nation. He is based out of the Flagstaff, AZ office.

Joe advises Tribal Nations, tribally owned entities, Native owned businesses, and entities looking to collaborate with Tribes. His practice includes providing business legal services, strategic counsel, and government affairs, specific to Indian Country in the areas of renewable energy, financial services, economic development, government affairs, Tribal Nation building, transportation/aviation, environmental/natural resources, cultural resources, sacred sites and places, government contracting, gaming, and tribal youth programming.

Joe’s legal career has taken him all over Indian Country. Prior to Drummond Woodsum, he served as General Counsel of a tribal holding company; the Chief Operations Officer and General Counsel of a Tribal trade association in Washington DC; was an appointee under the Obama administration, as the Senior Advisor & Liaison for Native American Affairs for the Office of the Secretary of Defense; a Subject Matter Expert to the National Congress of American Indians; a government and legislative affairs associate for the Navajo Nation Washington DC office; and as the staff attorney and clerk of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court.

Outside of work, Joe is an avid writer and published children’s book author. He has trained as a Strong Man, has run a 100-mile ultramarathon, is a retired competition powwow dancer, and played Division 1 college football on a full scholarship for Boise State University and Sacramento State University. Joe and his family split time between Flagstaff, The Navajo Nation, and Washington, DC.