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SPOTLIGHT
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RNN Course Series Featured in Indian Country Today
June 2013
NNI's Rebuilding Native Nations distance learning course series is featured in a new Indian Country Today article. Gale Courey Toensing writes that the course series "provides students with the opportunity to learn about all the various components of Native nation building from people who are actually doing the on-the-ground work of building their nations. The series examines the critical governance and development challenges facing Native nations and surveys the breadth and diversity of Native nation-building efforts across Indian country."
Read the full article here. And access the course website here.
Other recent media coverage of NNI's distance learning efforts includes an interview of Ian Record on the Martha Fast Horse radio show in Minneapolis. Find audio link and more information here.
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Jager to Present on Community Development Fund
June 2013
NNI research analyst Mary Beth Jager (Citizen Potawatomi) and Lakota Mowrer of the Four Bands Community Fund have been selected by the National Congress of American Indians to present on the joint NNI-Cheyenne River Sioux research program on the fund. They will deliver the talk, "Measuring and Marking the Impact of an Indigenous Community Development Fund," on June 26th at the NCAI Mid Year Conference in Reno, Nevada.
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Seminar Held on Tribal Constitutions
Part of the Native Nations Institute
Executive Education Seminar Series
April 2013
The most recent NNI seminar on Tribal Constitutions: Rebuilding Native Governments (Tucson, April 3-4) brought together over 75 participants from Native nation governments and other organizations to share strategies for remaking tribal governance systems through constitutional reforms. The first Tribal Constitutions seminar was held in May of 2012. Topics of the seminars included:
"What do we mean when we say constitutions?" video >
"Constitutions: Reflecting and enacting cultural identity" video >
NNI also offers an online "Constitutions" course more >
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Udall Foundation Awards 2013 Native American Congressional Internships
April 2013
The Udall Foundation is pleased to announce that 12 students from 12 tribes and 11 universities have been selected as 2013 Native American Congressional Interns. They were selected by an independent review committee of nationally recognized Native educators and tribal policy leaders on the basis of academic achievement and a demonstrated commitment to careers in tribal public policy. This highly regarded internship program is intended to provide American Indians and Alaska Natives with an insider's view of the federal government.
To learn more about the 2013 Udall Interns and the Udall Foundation, click here >
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New Law Review Article
April 2013
This law review article by NNI Senior Researcher Ryan Seelau discusses reversals of assimilative policies affecting Native American youth, in part through the lens of nation building and underlying research by the Native Nations Institute and Harvard Project.
Citation: Seelau, Ryan. 2013. Regaining control over the children: Reversing the legacy of assimilative policies in education, child welfare, and juvenile justice that targeted Native American youth. American Indian Law Review 37(1): 63-109.
Online access forthcoming; link to journal contents >
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Distinguished Visitor
March 2013
NNI staff members met with Chief Oren Lyons (center) prior to his delivering the second lecture in the Vine Deloria, Jr., Distinguished Indigenous Scholars Series (see more here) organized by the UA American Indian Studies Program and co-sponsored by NNI. Lyons wrote the foreword for the book, Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (UA Press, 2007), edited by NNI research director Miriam Jorgensen and with chapter contributions by several NNI researchers (see more here).
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New Course ADMINISTRATION
Part of Rebuilding Native Nations certificate course series
March 2013
Featuring the firsthand perspectives of more than 65 Native leaders and scholars, it provides an overview of the role of bureaucracies in advancing nation-building efforts, the keys to effective governmental administration and program management, and the distinct roles elected leaders and administrators should play in making effective management happen.
more >
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NNI in the News
Red Lake Constitutional Reform
Indian Country Today | February 8, 2013
International Students Participate in
Indigenous Governance Certificate Program
UANews | January 22, 2013
more NNI in the News >
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JOBS
Research Specialist
Native Nations Institute
Udall Center
Job Number: 52424 To review the posting, please go to www.UACareerTrack.com.
The Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (NNI), housed at The University of Arizona's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, serves as a self-determination, governance, and development resource for Indigenous nations in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere.
NNI was founded in 2001 by
the Morris K. Udall Foundation
(now Morris K. Udall and
Stewart L. Udall Foundation)
and The University of Arizona.
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