All of these diverse aspects of my indigenous leadership approach are connected to and influence my stance, style and outlook. By picturing these artifacts on top of the personal crest of my button blanket, I have built a metaphoric picture of who I am and how I lead.
Indigenous peoples, communities and leaders are diverse and evolving. There are a myriad of indigeneous cultures, ways and traditions across this land and many families and communities have developed their own unique expressions of languages, celebrations and practices. The complex tapestry that is our leadership approach cannot be reduced to a singularly comprehensible form.
Indigenous peoples can and do evolve. Expectations that our cultures cannot grow and progress are unfortunate. We can and do add new approaches, that work for us, to our ways of living, leading and being. When these steps are in harmony with our core values and traditions, they enhance who we are. Further, the non-indigenous world needs our wisdom. Through teaching and sharing our ways with the colonizers, we can protect ourselves, mother earth and non-indigenenous people. The world and our communities can only benefit from the addition of an indigeneous leadership approach.
Indigenous peoples can and do evolve. Expectations that our cultures cannot grow and progress are unfortunate. We can and do add new approaches, that work for us, to our ways of living, leading and being. When these steps are in harmony with our core values and traditions, they enhance who we are. Further, the non-indigenous world needs our wisdom. Through teaching and sharing our ways with the colonizers, we can protect ourselves, mother earth and non-indigenenous people. The world and our communities can only benefit from the addition of an indigeneous leadership approach.
Local united nations of the pre-contact world talks about the way that the West Yellowhead region has been peacefully shared by many indigenous groups for thousands of years.
Plan to Indentify West Yellowhead Indigenous Peoples and their Priorities is the step-by-step, indepth plan that I created for my practicum.
Conflict talks about how I cope with and manage conflict.
Metis through a Feminist Lens deconstructs Metis identity for the Indigenous peoples of the West Yellowhead through a feminist lens.
Engaging with difference can be hard work talks about complex indigenous relationships as a result of colonizer incursion.
Remote indigenous communities require unique approaches to multi relationships speaks to some challenges that are unique to remote indigenous communities.
Cyber supervision and technology make the world a smaller place supports the use of technology to bring appropriate support and expertize to remote indigenous communities.