Back row, left to right: Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabascan), Dave Archambault II (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Miriam Jorgensen, Patty Hoeft (Oneida Nation), Robert Valencia (Pascua Yaqui Tribe), Stephen Cornell. Front Row, left to right: Daryle Rigney (Ngarrindjeri), Eileen Briggs (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe), Phyllis Young (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe), Joan Timeche (Hopi), Sophie Pierre (Kootenay), Mona Nozhackum (Prairie Band Potawatomi), David Gipp (WicaKpe' Isnala - Lone Star - Hunkpapa Lakota).
We strengthen Indigenous governance through education, outreach, and engagement.
Via the Native Nations Institute, an internationally renowned research and service entity focused on Indigenous nation-building, we engage in political and community capacity-building, leadership development, economic development, entrepreneurship, data sovereignty, youth programs, criminal justice, public health, child welfare, and intergovernmental relationships in the context of colonization. We train emerging Native leaders and staff across the University and broader nonprofit sector in “Native Know How”, and manage a database of several thousand digital materials in support of tribal self-determination.
