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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Feel free to forward this to folks who are inquiring about the forum…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">There has been considerable mis-information spreading on the web about this forum, including someone saying that tribes are not involved, talking about
who is making speeches, and portraying this as a TransCanada forum (it is not!; a representative of that company is but one participant). I don’t know how these things got started. They are wrong. Here is what is actually occurring:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">On May 16-17, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development is hosting a policy forum at the Kennedy School of Government on “Major Development
Projects On and Near Indian Lands: Best Practices in Tribal-Corporate Relations” It is part of a two-forum series. The first is an industry forum. The second is a tribal forum scheduled for this summer. At this first forum, there are no speakers, except
S. James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, who is giving a luncheon talk. Both forums are roundtable discussions among 25-30 professionals about best and worst practices in major land-using project development (especially hard
rock mining). The industry forum focuses on industry, and the tribal forum focuses on tribal leaders. Even at the industry forum, however, a number of tribes and the attorneys who represent tribes are participating. The forums are part of a multi-year research
project that is seeking input on best and worst practices in, especially, hard rock mining on and near Indian lands. In keeping with the policies of the Kennedy School, the intention of both forums is to create an environment for civil discussion by all parties,
including controversial parties. The guiding principle is that, to get better at these kinds of relationships, concerned parties have to be heard and have to develop better knowledge – knowledge that comes from experiences and practitioners in the real world.
Following the forums, a project report or handbook will be produced to provide information which “both sides of the table” (tribal and company) can use in their tribal-corporate relations in the mining sector. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">The research project grew out of a publicly-released report on “Developing Successful Business Partnerships: The Tribe’s Side of the Table”, done several
years ago for Rio Tinto, the international mining company, by two Native students in the Harvard University Native American Program’s “Nation Building II” field research course. The project has since been supported by funding from Rio Tinto and numerous tribes
and companies have participated – with all parties recognizing that tribal-corporate relations on very large resource-using projects represent a relatively new development for tribes and companies. The research team has involved researchers from Harvard,
the University of Vermont and the University of Colorado. The content of the forthcoming report/handbook is under the sole control of the research team. Focused on best
<u>and</u> worst practices, key results are already emerging. Most centrally, <i>
worst </i>practices arise when companies seeking partnerships with tribes fail to recognize that
<i>tribes are sovereign governments</i>, with all that that implies. On the best practices side, where we see tribes and companies pleased with their mutual relationships, best practices include the two sides establishing formal corporate-to-government relations
that mirror the strengthened government-to-government relations between tribes and the federal government. The forthcoming project report/handbook will develop these themes in detail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hpaied/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:#6C0000">http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hpaied/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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