Tag: Native

  • Relationships and Action (Part 3): Belief to Action


    The factors in Part 2 could be said to rise to the level of a belief, e.g. patterning around the way something has been done in the past – “that’s the way it’s always been done”. Most of them are preferences or behavior patterns with which there’s more flexibility.  People are complex, and that complexity…

  • Advancing Community Priorities


    Guest speakers, David Jaber from the Oyate Omniciye regional sustainability planning effort of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (Pine Ridge Reservation) and Carrie Runser-Turner from the GroWNC regional planning project in Western North Carolina,  provide examples of how their tribal and rural communities were able to advance their priorities through local, regional planning efforts. In addition,…