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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Diné Policy
Institute and Diné College present:</font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; color: teal;"><font face="Times New Roman">K'é
bil nastii: Making Policy from Traditional Perspectives.</font></span></i></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 13pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Policy Analysis
in Indian Country</font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Tsaile, Navajo
Nation (AZ)</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-size: 13pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">June 19-20, 2008</font></span></p>
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face="Times New Roman">Indian
Country has yet to critically evaluate the policy-making and policy
analysis processes it uses. These processes affect the implementation
of traditional norms and values in Tribal policy settings. </font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman">Policy
analysis is often viewed as a benign process that does not impact the
use of traditional principles. Yet, when examined carefully, policy
analysis frames and problemitizes issues in a western frame. Analysts
(e.g. attorneys, staff assistants, program directors/managers, elected
officials, and researchers, and so forth) in Indian Country then work
within that western frame, attempting to apply traditional values. This
poses a problem as to validity of cultural appropriate policy outcomes.
If the traditional value is framed in western notions, how then does
the outcome promote traditional values? Policy analysis and
policy-making impacts how traditional values and norms are used;
autonomy over values and their use is given up to the dominant policy
analysis and policy-making processes. </font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"> </font></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman">This conference will shed light on the
following questions:</font></p>
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<p
style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span>1.<span> </span></span>How
do Indigenous people create a policy analysis process based on
Indigenous worldviews that sustains, supports and preserves traditional
values and norms in contemporary policy settings?</font></p>
<p
style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span>2.<span> </span></span>How do
Indigenous people create a shared governance policy framework that is
also understood by non Indigenous society?</font></p>
<p
style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman"><span>3.<span> </span></span>How
do Indigenous people mitigate the negative impacts resulting from the
usage of dominant policy tools in Tribal policy settings?</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font
face="Times New Roman">For more information call Moroni Benally at
(928) 724-6944 or email at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mtbenally@dinecollege.edu">mtbenally@dinecollege.edu</a></font></span></p>
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