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Naming Turn naming into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Ask about household, identity, naming, and belonging without assuming that a community pattern describes a person. 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 Naming: Use Naming 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. Naming Ask how to say it. English names, nation names, and language names may all sit on one person. Enrollment names are nation business.
Not a quiz A name is not a blood-quantum quiz. Do not joke. Do not Anglicize. The form that only fits Mary Jones is a gate.
You do not decide who is Native. A scientist named in English and a language teacher named in Ojibwemowin can be siblings. Neither is more authentic as a case note.
Pronounce Bois Forte, Mille Lacs, Shakopee, Pezihutazizi. If you cannot, ask. Literacy includes the map.
Put naming to work What you can change You control whether naming is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Ask how to say it. You do not decide who is Native. Do not treat a name as a blood-quantum quiz.
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 Naming
Real example: Ask how to say it. English names, nation names, and language names may all sit on one person. Enrollment names are nation business. Not a quiz A name is not a blood-quantum quiz. Do not joke. Do not Angliciz…
Leader action: Ask how to say it. You do not decide who is Native. Do not treat a name as a blood-quantum quiz.
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 · Household, identity, and belonging Carry this forward Naming provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
Ask how to say it. You do not decide who is Native. Do not treat a name as a blood-quantum quiz.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Naming 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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