Governor Reggie Wassana

Reggie Wassana began serving his people at the Oklahoma-based Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in 1992 as a tribal planner in the planning office. Four years later, in 1996, he was hired as the housing authority's executive director for 15 years.

After working for various tribal nations, Wassana was elected to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Legislature as Cheyenne District 3 legislator in January 2016. Selected by his peers, he was chosen as the speaker of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Sixth Legislature for two years.

In January 2018, Wassana was sworn into office as the fourth governor of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. For the first time in modern history, Governor Wassana was reelected for a consecutive second four-year term in 2021. Governor Wassana graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

On a national level, Governor Wassana serves on the Indian Health Service Direct Service Tribes Advisory Committee, as a Southern Plains Region primary member of the Secretary of the Interior’s Tribal Advisory Committee, and as the National Congress of American Indians executive committee’s Southern Plains vice president.

Governor Wassana’s administration is committed to healing and moving the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes forward and together as great nations while providing the best possible services for all tribal members.