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INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE PROJECTAKA NATIVE LAND PROJECT
Loren BirdRattler, Project Manager, Agriculture Resource
Management Plan, Blackfeet Tribe
Dr. Kristin Ruppel, Native Studies, Montana State University
Jill Mackin, Graduate Research Assistant, Montana State
University
BLACKFEET CORE VALUES
AS DEFINED BY BLACKFEET ELDERS WITH BLACKFEET COMMUNITY COLLEGE
● Tsi-ksi-ka-ta-pi-wa-tsin Blackfeet Way of Knowing: Blackfeet
culture/spirituality in philosophy, thought and action
● Nin-na-wa-tsin Being a Leader: professionalism, integrity, and
responsibility in human interaction
● Ini-yimm Respect: respect for one self, all other people, all ideas and each
thing in the natural world
● Ni-ta-pi-pa-ta-pi-tsin Living in a Good Way: honest in all thoughts and
actions.
● Ii-yi-kah-kii-ma-tsin Trying Hard: commitment, dedication, sincerity in the
pursuit of all of our goals.
● Aoh-kan-otah-tomo Accepting Everyone: embracing the unique talents
and contributions of each individual.
● Ii-ta-mii-pa-ta-pi-yoip Happy Living: humor, laughter and enjoyment of life.
WHAT DO WE DO?
Share and curate locally grown solutions to
Indigenous land tenure through applied research
Provide BCC and MSU students meaningful opportunity to engage with Blackfeet planners
Identify and provide capacity building skills based on the needs of
Blackfeet planning practitioners
Develop a curriculum in indigenous community planning to be based at
MSU-Bozeman and available to regional and tribal college
students
WHAT DO WE DO?
1.Build Networks
2.Research and
Research Protocol
3. Learn,Teach and Mentor
BUILD NETWORKS
1. Nation-to-nation and peer-to-peer
learning is powerful
2. Similarity rather than comparative
approach
3. Hold a forum to share best practice
4. Curate locally grown solutions to
Indigenous land tenure and
fractionation
5. Support indigenous planning
practitioners
Good Idea?
INDIGENOUS PLANNING WORKSHOP,AUG 4, 2017, POLSON, MT
1. Gathered key regional Indigenous planning practitioners to discuss
research directions and a network of indigenous planning excellence
2. Introduced and discuss project objectives
3. Identified and evaluate research scope, data, methods, key players
4. Identified next steps
BLACKFEET WAYS OF PLANNING
1. RETHINKING INDIGENOUS RESEARCH & PROTOCOLS
PLANNING DOCUMENTATIONAGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN(ARMP)
Live Polling
ARMP SURVEY
4 3 9 8 630
6 38 7 3
27
4 4
11 64
29
74
107
11
39
115
69
3
34
35
6
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12
90
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
Learn about it
from graphics,
websites and
presentations
(Be Informed)
Comment on
plan drafts and at
meetings (Be
Consulted)
Workshops and
polling (Be
Involved)
Participate on
Committees
(Collaborate)
Direct plan
drafting and
voting
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# O
F R
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PO
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DESIRED LEVEL OF POWER IN PLANNING
How would you like to participate in
land use planning?
N=238as of August 2, 2017
J.Pecora Photography
FRACTIONATION + HUMAN DEVELOPMENTPost Cobell Decision
Working Hypotheses
1. Connection and access to place/land has
measurable benefits on the well-being of Native
individuals and reservation communities.
-How can the tribe support such connection and
access?
2. Tribal land ownership and human
well-being are positively correlated.
-Assumes that the more land base a tribe controls, the
better their self-determinism, resource security,
community-connectedness and economic
development outcomes.
- What are cases and winning conditions?
- How do we address inequity in land ownership?
How do we maximize the
impact of research on
indigenous lands?
What’s missing when it
comes to indicators of
Indigenous Development?
Where do we find it? (US
Census, BIA, Tribal
Census and Surveys…)
TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP
○ Identify and provide
capacity building courses,
skills based on the needs of
native planning practitioners
○ Provide students
meaningful opportunities
to engage with Native
planners through facilitation,
notetaking and media
recording
NASX 470/570 INDIGENOUS PLANNING
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
a. Understand their position to
Indigenous Planning and people today
through reflective practice
b. Structure a planning process
using the strategic planning approach
c. Manage professional
projects in small group
settings
d. Create a strategic
development plan (fictional) in their field of
interest through analysis and action
planning
e. Publicly present
their work to a traditional and professional
audience
NASX 470/570 INDIGENOUS PLANNING
COURSE STRUCTURE
Literature Review
Reflective Essay
Day In the Life of a
Planner (Grad Students Only)
10 units of Strategic Planning
with regional tribal plans
Professional Project +
Public Presentation
NASX 470/570 INDIGENOUS PLANNING
1. Who are the ‘faces’ and “cases” of good
Indigenous planning on reservations in
Montana?
2. Elder/expert panel/roundtables and fall
gathering at MSU-Bozeman, want to
come?
3. What else should be in this course?
YELLOW BIRD WOMAN SANCTUARYBLACKFEET INDIAN LAND TRUST
YELLOW BIRD WOMAN SANCTUARYBLACKFEET INDIAN LAND TRUST
AHOTHANK YOU
Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
Amskapi Piikuni (Blackfeet Nation)
Foundation for Community Vitality
MSU Department of Native American Studies
American Indigenous Research Association