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WHAT'S NEW
Program Tribal Constitutions:
Rebuilding Native Governments
An Executive Education explicitly designed to equip Native nation leaders and other key decisionmakers with cutting-edge knowledge and tools for assessing their systems of governance and then determining what needs changing and how.
In addition, Native leaders and governance experts will share their knowledge and experience in remaking Indigenous governance systems.
May 1-2, 2012
Sol Casinos Hotel & Convention Center
Tucson, Arizona
Contact:
Carrie Stusse at cms1@email.arizona.edu or
(520) 626-0664
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Program Emerging Leaders:
Rebuilding Native Nations
An Executive Education developed specifically for newly elected and aspiring Indigenous leaders. This seminar is designed to help prepare newly elected leaders of Native nations—and those who aspire to senior governmental positions—to assume the responsibilities of leadership. The curriculum is also directly relevant to senior managers and administrative staff, members of enterprise boards of directors, and tribal judges.
March 20-21, 2012
Doubletree Tucson Reid Park
Tucson, Arizona
Contact:
Carrie Stusse at cms1@email.arizona.edu or
(520) 626-0664
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NEW Course Intergovernmental Relations
A Distance-Learning Course on Intergovernmental Relations. This course explores the growth in intergovernmental relationships between Native nations and federal, state, local, and other tribal governments. It examines the pros and cons of litigation versus negotiation in resolving intergovernmental conflicts, and demonstrates how Native nations across Indian Country are using formal intergovernmental agreements as important nation-building tools. Featuring the firsthand perspectives of more than 60 Native leaders and scholars, it presents case studies of several Native nations who have forged creative relationships with governmental and non-governmental partners to advance their strategic priorities and solve common problems.
Released November 2011, Three Modules, open enrollment
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Course Economic Development
A Distance-Learning Course on Economic Development. This course presents the five critical keys to successful nation building, and begins to explore why these each of these keys is so important to sustainable economic and community development. It examines the challenges that Native nations face in building diversified, sustainable economies and the ways some nations have overcome those challenges. It explores what a nation needs to create an environment that fosters successful nation-owned and citizen-owned businesses.
Released October 2011, Three Modules, open enrollment
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Course Rebuilding Native Nations
A Distance-Learning Course on Native Nation Building. Compares and contrasts the two approaches to economic and community development that Native nations typically pursue. Presents the five critical keys to successful nation building, and examines why these keys are critical to sustainable development.
Released November 2010, Module 1, open enrollment
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Publication JOPNA Working Papers Series
American Indian Self-Determination
The Political Economy of a Successful Policy
by Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt
JOPNA Working Papers No. 1
November 2010, 32p, JOPNA WP No. 1 (pdf) |
Documentary Return of the Red Lake Walleye
A compelling example of tribal sovereignty in practice, Return of the Red Lake Walleye documents the significance of the walleye's return for the Red Lake community, its people, the tribe as a whole, and those generations yet to come.
Released November 2010
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WHAT WE DO
Policy Analysis and Research | Executive Education |
Strategic and Organizational Development |
Youth Entrepreneur Camp | Curriculum Development |
Congressional Internships
RESOURCES
Publications | Curricular Resources | NNI TV/Radio |
Joint Occasional Papers on Native Affairs (JOPNA)|
NNI Research Report | ArizonaNativeNet.com
WHO WE ARE
About NNI | Staff | International Advisory Council | Collaborators | About Our Logo | What is Native Nation Building?
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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Native Nations and U.S. Borders reviews how Native nations along or near the U.S. borders with Mexico, Canada, and Russia have responded to border-related challenges to citizenship, crossing rights and border security, culture, the environment and natural resources, and public health and safety. This book seeks to inform discussions of border policy at all levels of government— tribal, local, state, and federal— and is intended to be a resource to Indigenous leaders; federal, state, and municipal policy-makers and authorities; researchers; and nongovernmental work involving border regions.
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