
Bio
As a member of the Lippes Mathias Indian Law Practice Team, Bryan concentrates his practice on advising tribal clients on issues ranging from gaming and economic development to self-governance and self-determination, and claims settlement and litigation.
Bryan Shade is an experienced federal Indian law attorney who has represented tribes and Indian Country in a variety of roles on both sides of the federal-tribal table. Bryan is currently with the DC office of Lippes Mathias LLP, and formerly served as an attorney/advisor for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior where he advised the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, the Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Indian Affairs for Management, Policy, and Economic Development, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Office of Tribal Self-Governance on various issues relating to the federal trust responsibility to Tribal Nations. In 2021, Bryan was appointed by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to represent the Department on the PROGRESS Act Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. Prior to serving in the Department of the Interior, Bryan previously served as self-governance general counsel for one of the largest federally recognized tribes in the US as well as executive director of tribal operations and federal programs director for his tribe. He has a demonstrated history of serving Indian Country and is a frontline expert on the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA) and other critical areas of federal Indian law.
The Oklahoma Bar Association’s Indian Law Section presented Bryan with the inaugural G. William Rice Award in recognition of his commitment to and excellence in the field of federal Indian law. Bryan is an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma and resides in Rockville, MD, with his wife and two daughters who are citizens of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and who are of Chickasaw and Mississippi Band of Choctaw descent.
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Bryan C. Shade Named Among The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Native American 40 Under 40
March 21, 2023

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Bryan C. Shade Hosts Workshop at the 50th Annual Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada Convention
December 13, 2022

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Bryan C. Shade to Moderate Panel at Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference
October 26, 2022

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Bryan C. Shade To Moderate Panel: Tribal Sovereignty in Use of Federal Funding | Monday, November 7, 2022
October 14, 2022

Client Alerts
Need to Know Basics: Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
September 29, 2022

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Bryan C. Shade Joins Lippes Mathias as Senior Associate
September 28, 2022