Press
Release : October 22, 2008
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Honors American Indian Nations
Phoenix, AZ – Ten tribal governments were honored last night (Oct. 21) by Harvard’s Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations (Honoring Nations) awards program. Five programs each received a $20,000 award and five others each received a $10,000 award in recognition of their good governance achievements. Hundreds of guests attended the event held in conjunction with the 65th Annual Session of the National Congress of American Indians in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Our destiny in is our hands. Being capable of directing our own future and defending the futures of our children and the futures of our nations is profoundly important. Honoring Nations understands this – and is a very, very positive program in Indian Country,” said Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Onondaga Indian Nation and chairman of the Honoring Nations Board of Governors. The Honoring Nations program identifies, celebrates, and shares exemplary tribal governance programs among the 560+ Indian nations in the United States.
This is Honoring Nations’ seventh year of awards. Since the program’s inception in 1998, more than one-quarter of the tribes in the U.S. have applied for an award and 102 initiatives have been honored. “Tribes are solving complex governmental issues in meaningful way. Their work is inspiring, and each hold examples for other governments to learn from,” noted Amy Besaw Medford director of the program.
The five “High Honors” and five “Honors” recipients were selected from a pool of 110 applications representing more than 60 tribes. At each stage of the selection process applications are judged on the criteria of effectiveness, significance to sovereignty, cultural relevance, transferability, and sustainability. In addition to the awards, the Harvard Project prepares reports, case studies, and instructional materials based on the honorees’ successes.
Based at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Honoring Nations is administered by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. The Harvard Project’s goal is to understand the conditions under which self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations. Honoring Nations is funded by the Ford Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and private donors.
For more information about Honoring Nations, visit the Harvard Project’s web site at http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hpaied/ or call 617-495-1480.
2008 “High Honors” and “Honors” Award Recipients (* denotes “High Honors”)
Archie Hendricks, Sr. Skilled Nursing Facility and Tohono O’odham Hospice*
Tohono O’odham Nation
Chickasaw Press
Chickasaw Nation
Community Council Task Force
Ak-Chin Indian Community
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Muscogee Creek Nation Reintegration Program*
Muscogee Creek Nation
Osage Nation Governmental Reform Initiative*
Osage Nation
Pine Hill Health Center*
Navajo Nation, Ramah Chapter
Project Falvmmichi*
Choctaw Nation
Tsigo bugeh Village
Ohkay Owengeh
Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan
For Immediate Release, October 22, 2008
Contact: Megan Hill (617) 496-4229
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Press
Release : September 30, 2008
Harvard’s Honoring Nation’s Program to Recognize Top Tribal Governments at Phoenix Event
For
Immediate Release, Sept. 30, 2008
Contact:
Megan Hill, 617-495-1480
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Announcement
State
of the Native Nations
and
Rebuilding
Native Nations
Book
Event at
National
Museum of the American Indian
Rasmuson
Theater
Sunday,
October 21, 2007, 1 p.m., Rasmuson Theater
Presentations
by - Authors: Joseph Kalt, Andrew Lee, Miriam
Jorgensen and Contributors: Butch Blazer, Kevin
Red Star, Sherry Salway Black and Jacqueline Johnson
Free
and Open to the Public
National
Museum of the American Indian
State
of the Native Nations at Oxford University
Press
Rebuilding
Native Nations at University of Arizona
Press
Announcement
Now
available online! Honoring
Nations 2008 Application
Press
Release: June 7, 2007
The
State of the Native Nations Chronicles Native
American Resurgence: New
book from Harvard University scholars examines progress,
challenges
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of Press Release
For
Immediate Release, June 7, 2007
Contact:
Doug Gavel (617) 495-1115
Kennedy
School Communications
Announcement
Professor
Joseph P. Kalt talks about the Harvard Project's
forthcoming book, The
State of the Native Nations: Conditions
Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination
(Oxford
University Press, May 2007)
KSG's
Virtual Book Tour
Announcement
IOP
Forum now available online:
The
Future of the U.S./Tribal Nations Relationship
http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/iop/events_forum_video.asp?ID=3063
Announcement
Honoring Nations Case Study now avalible online!
The
Two Plus Two Plus Two Program
Developed in 1997, the Two Plus
Two Plus Two college transition program is a partnership
between Hopi Junior/Senior High School, Northland
Pioneer College, and Northern Arizona University.
The program recruits junior and senior high school
students to enroll in classes (including distance
learning courses) that offer concurrent 20 college
level credits. Upon graduation, students enrolled
in Two Plus Two Plus Two can earn up to thirty transferable
credits to any state or out-of-state accredited
community college or university. The Program has
led to a growing demand for math and science courses
by students within the school and to increased college
enrollment (forty-five percent of this years graduating
class will attend two or four year institutions
of higher education). Two Plus Two Plus Two is helping
Hopi students attain advanced educational degrees
and, in so doing, is empowering them with technological
and academic skills that they can bring back to
the rural reservation.
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Press
Release : October 4, 2006
Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government Honors American Indian
Nations
For
Immediate Release, Oct. 4, 2006
Contact:
Jackie Old Coyote (617) 496-9446
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