Redefining Indigenous Leadership Through Community Cross-Pollination

This project develops and implements an interactive facilitated curriculum for Indigenous leadership-in-action designed to empower Native peoples in Minnesota with traditional knowledge and concepts of leadership that were disrupted by the boarding school era and many other systemic efforts of cultural erasure. Through interaction with the course material and facilitated dialogue in online and in-person convenings, participants build culturally centered belonging and relatedness, develop skills for adaptation to change and personal growth, become active participants in independent and reciprocal relationships, and learn skills for identifying and sustaining opportunities for healing in themselves and others.