7 minutes
Lived experience and trust · Other Considerations Turn other considerations, health, lgbtq into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Identify how lived experience and institutional trust may affect entry, burden, and follow-through. 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 Lived experience and trust · Other Considerations: Use Other Considerations, Health, LGBTQ 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. Other Considerations Blood quantum is colonial technology. Enrollment versus community is nation business. Two-spirit people exist. Data sovereignty is nation business.
MMIW and child welfare Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is current structure, not a poster. The state has a record of taking children. That is why ICWA exists.
Follow law. Still see a family. Do not out anyone. Mandated reporting still stands.
Not one economy Gaming revenue at one nation is not the Dakota story. Poverty on a Compass line is not the Anishinaabe story. Scientists, lawyers, doctors, teachers, and professionals in tribally run programs exist in the same nations as people on waivers. Community portrait means all of that. Dominant culture does not get to choose which slice is “the real Native.”
Haaland v. Brackeen (2023) upheld ICWA. That is current law. The Act is not optional because a commenter was uncomfortable.
Put other considerations to work What you can change You control whether other considerations is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for You do not decide who is Native. The nation does. Do not out anyone. Follow law.
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.
Health Pattern, dated: American Indian Minnesotans have among the worst health outcomes of any group in the state — date the specific rate when you have the controlling Minnesota Department of Health or tribal-epidemiology source. Do not invent a number here to sound complete.
Compass Compass Native American (ACS 2019–2023): 16.2 percent with a disability; 8.5 percent without health insurance; median household income about $58,000; 17.9 percent below poverty. Date it. A rate is not the person.
Systems of care Indian Health Service, tribal health, urban Indian health, and county clinics are not interchangeable. Olmstead and disability still apply. So does nationhood. Believe reported pain. Historical trauma and ordinary chronic disease sit in the same body. You can hold both.
A physician who is a citizen of White Earth and a patient at an urban Indian clinic are both this page. The clinic is not the whole portrait.
Put health to work What you can change You control whether health is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Believe reported pain. Those clinics are not interchangeable with a county clinic. Olmstead still applies. So does nationhood.
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.
LGBTQ Two-spirit and LGBTQ Native people exist. Harm in some churches and in some traditional rooms. Named variation.
Use the name and pronouns. Outing someone to family or to a nation office is not culture. The people-page rule is the workplace rule.
Two-spirit is not a brand you put on a Heritage Month flyer. It is people.
Put lgbtq to work What you can change You control whether lgbtq is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Use the name and pronouns. Do not out someone to family or to a nation office as ‘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 Other Considerations
Real example: Blood quantum is colonial technology. Enrollment versus community is nation business. Two-spirit people exist. Data sovereignty is nation business. MMIW and child welfare Missing and Murdered Indigenous Wome…
Leader action: You do not decide who is Native. The nation does. Do not out anyone. Follow law.
Health
Real example: Pattern, dated: American Indian Minnesotans have among the worst health outcomes of any group in the state — date the specific rate when you have the controlling Minnesota Department of Health or tribal-epid…
Leader action: Believe reported pain. Those clinics are not interchangeable with a county clinic. Olmstead still applies. So does nationhood.
LGBTQ
Real example: Two-spirit and LGBTQ Native people exist. Harm in some churches and in some traditional rooms. Named variation. Use the name and pronouns. Outing someone to family or to a nation office is not culture. The p…
Leader action: Use the name and pronouns. Do not out someone to family or to a nation office as ‘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 · Eleven Tribal Nations of Minnesota · Lived experience and trust Carry this forward Other Considerations, Health, LGBTQ provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
Use the name and pronouns. Do not out someone to family or to a nation office as ‘culture.’
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Other Considerations, Health, LGBTQ 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.
Browse and download only. Course notes are not typed or saved on this page.
Reset this lesson
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.
