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<div class="Section1"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">From
the INIT-THO list-serve:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><b><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">DINÉ</span></font></b></st1:PlaceName><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">COLLEGE</st1:PlaceType></span></b></st1:place><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"> AND DINÉ POLICY INSTITUTE PRESENT:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">K'é Bil Nast'ii: Making
Policy from
Traditional Perspectives</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Policy Analysis in Indian
Country</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Tsaile, Navajo Nation (AZ)</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">June 19-20, 2008</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> This
conference will shed light on the following
questions:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">•
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?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">•
How do Indigenous people create a shared governance policy framework
that is
also understood by non Indigenous society?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">•
How do Indigenous people mitigate the negative impacts resulting from
the usage
of dominant policy tools in Tribal policy settings?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">For more information contact: </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> Diné Policy Institute</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Post Office Box 96</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Tsaile</span></font></b></st1:City><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">, <st1:State w:st="on">AZ</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">86556</st1:PostalCode></span></b></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Phone: (928) 724-6945</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Fax: (928) 724-6837</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mtbenally@dinecollege.edu" target="_blank">mtbenally@dinecollege.edu</a></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><font
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.dinecollege.edu/ics/Programs/" target="_blank">www.dinecollege.edu/policy.php<br>
</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: black;">init-tho
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