Brisind (RAIN) serves as the executive director of the Global Indigenous Council, an international indigenous rights advocacy organization based in the US. The Global Indigenous Council co-hosted the first Native American 2020 Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, and the first-ever Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) Tribunal in the US. Previously, Rain served as Chief of Staff for the Piikani Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy and in that capacity was the Nation’s representative to the US Congress. With the Piikani Nation, he initiated the “Grizzly Treaty,” which became the most-signed tribal treaty in history with over 200-tribal nation signatories, and inspired Congressman Raul Grijalva’s Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act. Brisind (RAIN) had a pivotal role in the tribal plaintiffs’ victory in Crow Tribe, et al v. Zinke, which saw the defeat of the Trump Administration’s drive to delist the grizzly bear in Yellowstone and enable state-sanctioned trophy hunts. With that seminal court victory, tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and religious freedoms were upheld, and the grizzly bear was returned to Endangered Species Act protections in Greater Yellowstone. Rain’s short film, Not In Our Name, which featured Zahn McClarnon (HBO’s Westworld, Spielberg’s Into the West, AMC’s The Son), became the most-watched video on Sierra Club’s social media platforms and was instrumental in garnering public opposition to delisting and trophy hunting the sacred grizzly. Rain’s most recent film is “Somebody’s Daughter,” a documentary about the thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous women, which has been called both “hauntingly beautiful and emotionally devastating.” Somebody’s Daughter has been supported by many prominent members of the Indigenous community, including Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo, Oscar-winner Wes Studi, Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Founder John Echohawk, and internationally renowned author and environmental protector, Winona LaDuke. Award-winning actress and director Georgina Lightning was consultant on the project.