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Place, institutions, and memory · 4. Minnesota specifically Turn 4. minnesota specifically, 5. core concepts into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Connect place, institutions, and collective memory to the DHS process that is being designed or changed. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What keeps the learning useful instead of turning it into a stereotype? Document a next step for Place, institutions, and memory · 4. Minnesota specifically: Use 4. Minnesota specifically, 5. Core concepts as a hypothesis in one live plan; verify the relevant detail with the affected person or a named community partner, then record the change, owner, review date, and report-back. 4. Minnesota specifically Guest. Pay. Report back. An eList is not engagement.
Put 4. minnesota specifically to work What you can change You control whether 4. minnesota specifically is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Local orgs belong on this page as we name them with the community — not harvested from staff.
Your next step Use this evidence as a hypothesis in your next plan, then confirm the relevant detail with the person or the community partner you named.
5. Core concepts Compass count is not government-to-government. Open the Eleven Nations CI for sovereignty. Urban Native is not off the list. That is the first grammar. The rest is written at full depth, not guessed to look complete.
Put 5. core concepts to work What you can change You control whether 5. core concepts is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Ask. Defer. Do not perform someone else’s culture.
Your next step Use this evidence as a hypothesis in your next plan, then confirm the relevant detail with the person or the community partner you named.
Practical cards 4. Minnesota specifically
Real example: Guest. Pay. Report back. An eList is not engagement.
Leader action: Local orgs belong on this page as we name them with the community — not harvested from staff.
5. Core concepts
Real example: Compass count is not government-to-government. Open the Eleven Nations CI for sovereignty. Urban Native is not off the list. That is the first grammar. The rest is written at full depth, not guessed to look…
Leader action: Ask. Defer. Do not perform someone else’s culture.
I do not need a cultural performance from a professional. I need the process to make room for my name, my people, my questions, and the way I actually need to participate.
Composite public perspective — illustrative · Native American (Compass profile — not the 11 nations) · Place, institutions, and memory Carry this forward 4. Minnesota specifically, 5. Core concepts provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
Ask. Defer. Do not perform someone else’s culture.
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Use 4. Minnesota specifically, 5. Core concepts as a hypothesis in one live plan; verify the relevant detail with the affected person or a named community partner, then record the change, owner, review date, and report-back.
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Previous lesson Next lesson Carry this into practice Use this material only to frame respectful questions; defer Native American and Tribal-specific content, engagement, and decisions to the Office of Indian Affairs and DHS offices that handle Tribal matters.
Return to the experience: What did you notice or try, whose perspective informed it, and what would you keep or adjust?
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
