[nativestudies-l] CFP: Making Policy from Traditional Perspectives, Navajo Nation June 2008

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

 From the INIT-THO list-serve:

*Diné Policy Institute and Diné College present:*

*/K'é bil nastii: Making Policy from Traditional Perspectives./*

*Policy Analysis in Indian Country*

Tsaile, Navajo Nation (AZ)

June 19-20, 2008

 

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.

 

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.

 

This conference will shed light on the following questions:

 

1.      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?

2.      How do Indigenous people create a shared governance policy 
framework that is also understood by non Indigenous society?

3.      How do Indigenous people mitigate the negative impacts resulting 
from the usage of dominant policy tools in Tribal policy settings?


For more information call Moroni Benally at (928) 724-6944 or email at 
mtbenally at dinecollege.edu <mailto:mtbenally at dinecollege.edu>


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