Two International Talks by NNI Researchers

Rachel Starks presents on the innovative nation-building and business practices of the Mikisew Group of Companies, an enterprise of the Mikisew Cree First Nation in Alberta, Canada. The Banff Centre commissioned the research. Starks led the research effort and co-authored the associated report with Miriam Jorgensen.

Venue: Banff Symposium on Wise Practices in Indigenous Community Development, Alberta, September 13-16.

Contact: Rachel Starks at rstarks@email.arizona.edu

Stephanie Rainie presents, "Self Determination and American Indian Health Care: The Shift to Tribal Control." Rainie's co-authors are Stephen Cornell, Maura Grogan, Miriam Jorgensen, and Rachel Starks.

Venue: International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development Conference, Brisbane, Australia, September 24-28.

Contact: Stephanie Rainie at scrainie@email.arizona.edu

Distance-Learning Course Series on
Rebuilding Native Nations

Developed by NNI, the "Rebuilding Native Nations" distance-learning course 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. Sharing lessons learned from more than two decades of community-based research by NNI and its sister organization the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, it explores what is working, what isn't, and why, as Native nations work to reclaim control over their own affairs and create vibrant futures of their own design.

more >

Courses included in the series are:
• Constitutions, released July 2012, three modules.
• Justice Systems, released March 2012, three modules. Download Press Release
• Intergovernmental Relations, released November 2011, three modules.
• Economic Development, released October 2011, three modules.
• Rebuilding Native Nations, November 2010, first module.

Contact: Ian Record at recordi@u.arizona.edu or (520) 626-0664