Dean Parisian, Founder and Chairman

Growing up, his father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the family  lived on many Indian reservations across the Great Plains.  From the hills of the Sisseton-Wahpeton tribe on west to the Big Horn Mountains on the Crow Reservation were considered home.  It was near Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota that Dean  spent his high school years. Only 80 years before, the Hotckiss guns were carefully trained on a group of terrified and disarmed Sioux in the hills northeast of Pine Ridge. It wasn’t a battlefield at Wounded Knee, like historians suggest, it was an assassination; as were America’s first freedom fighters; Sitting Bull, Dull Knife and Geronimo. The carnage continues today as the Indian Affairs Trust Office still can not account for two billion dollars of Native American fund transfers. Mr. Parisian founded the company to manage serious wealth for those tribes and tribal members who understand that casino gaming alone is not the answer to viable long-term economic success.

Dean T.  Parisian attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, the University of Minnesota and Hamline University School of Law.  His undergraduate degrees were in  Education and Economics and he began his investment career in 1982.  He trained on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody and Co. and joined Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. in LaJolla, California in 1984. He was a Trust Officer at First Union Bank  in Atlanta and managed his personal holdings with significant success prior to founding Chippewa Partners in 1995.  He was the first Native American mutual fund advisor licensed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.  He is a member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians.