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"Building Effective Government and Business Relations With American Indian Tribes ™"

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(Agendas May Be Adjusted for Local Customs, Traditions, and Availability)

The Presentations

 

The workshops use Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations to instruct numerous principles on Indian culture, protocol, government, communication, and building trust and relationships.  Video clips of Indian practitioners and tribal leaders are imbedded into the presentations to emphasize and validate principles.  These workshops are interactive and the curriculum contains opportunities for participants to dialogue and discuss practices and principles presented. 

One-Day Workshop

“Building Effective Government and Business Relations With American Indian Tribes™” is an interactive one-day professional development workshop designed for federal, state, and local government officials and business leaders who have a need to, or are required to, develop working relationships with Indian tribes and organizations.  The process of developing effective working relationships with Indian tribes and organizations requires knowledge and understanding of: Indian culture, organizational protocols, trust and relationship building principles, communication, and developing a collaborative environment. 

Participants who attend “Building Effective Government and Business Relations with Indian Tribes™” leave with a powerful understanding of the basic principles used to build working relationships with American Indian Tribes. “Building Effective Government and Business Relations With Indian Tribes™” assists government and business leaders in accelerating trust and relationship building efforts through the use of proven principles, in many cases, articulated by tribal leaders themselves.

 

 

Agenda -- One-Day Workshop

Two-Day Workshop

“Building a Foundation for Better Communications”

The foundation of developing an effective working relationship is cultural understanding. Participating in small groups, you will build your understanding by listening to and discussing issues with American Indian people who are active at the local and national level. Topics will include Social and Family Structure (growing up as an Indian -- past and present), Historical Impacts of Emigration and Settlement (buffalo herds, historic trails, sacred sites, land ethic, treaties, etc.), Contemporary Impacts on Indian Life (sacred sites, ceremonies, repatriation issues, spiritual values, traditional ways, etc.), and Understanding the Indian Way (cultural protocol, tribal governments, gifts, prayers, elders, conflict, speeches, etc.).

Day 1 Agenda - 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

"Building Relationships that Work" and "Integrated Strategies that Lead to Enhanced Government and Business Relations with Tribes"

The second day of the workshop presents the “nuts and bolts” of developing effective working relationships. You will learn about and discuss such topics as: Trust and Relationship Building, Communicating Within the Indian Culture, Facilitating and Managing Culturally Diverse Meetings, Building a Collaborative Environment, Legal Considerations, etc.. Recent successes on issues of a national scale will be presented to emphasize the principles presented.

Day 2 Agenda - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.