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Translate learning into practice · Civil Rights Memory Turn civil rights memory, business and work, diaspora and adjacent into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Turn community context into an accessible, owned action with a report-back path. 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 Translate learning into practice · Civil Rights Memory: Use Civil Rights Memory, Business and Work, Diaspora and Adjacent 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. Civil Rights Memory Treaties. 1862. Boarding schools. Allotment. Termination and restoration. AIM in Minneapolis, 1968. ICWA 1978. The Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act. Haaland v. Brackeen 2023. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Not “in the past.”
The record A DHS badge is not automatically help. The movement did not succeed so that the form is fair now. Empty follow-up cells on a tribal notice are a structural failure.
There is no U.S. Civil Rights Movement to copy onto this page as a template. The political literacy here is nation-to-nation, child welfare, land, language, and a state that still has to be made to keep its word.
Put civil rights memory to work What you can change You control whether civil rights memory is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for A DHS badge is not automatically help. Do not tell people the movement succeeded so the packet is fair now.
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.
Business and Work Self-determination contracting (Public Law 93-638). Gaming as nation revenue, not a mascot. Tribal employment. Urban professionals. Trades. Teachers. Health clinicians. Scientists in tribal natural-resources departments. Attorneys in tribal courts and in this department. Identity is not a staffing plan.
Nation economies A Heritage Month frybread lunch is not consultation. Notice goes to the nation as a government.
Shakopee Mdewakanton’s economic position is real and is not the Dakota story copied onto Upper Sioux or Lower Sioux. White Earth and Red Lake are not one economy. Name the nation. “Casino Indian” is not a type.
Native staff are not unpaid liaisons. Pay the work or do not ask for it.
Put business and work to work What you can change You control whether business and work is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for A Heritage Month frybread lunch is not consultation. Native staff are not unpaid liaisons.
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.
Diaspora and Adjacent Alaska Native is a different brief. Other U.S. tribal citizens living in Minnesota are not automatically one of the eleven. First Nations from Canada are not the eleven. Urban Native is not a leftover.
Not one Native module Never one Native module. “Indigenous” is not a mash with Māori training slides. Open the Alaska Native brief for Alaska Native people. Open this for the eleven and for urban Native Minnesota that still belongs to a nation.
Historic African American, Somali, and Hmong are different cultural intelligences. Shared “people of color” language in a training is not shared nationhood.
Put diaspora and adjacent to work What you can change You control whether diaspora and adjacent is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Open the Alaska Native CI for Alaska Native. Do not file them under the 11. Urban Native is not a leftover.
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 Civil Rights Memory
Real example: Treaties. 1862. Boarding schools. Allotment. Termination and restoration. AIM in Minneapolis, 1968. ICWA 1978. The Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act. Haaland v. Brackeen 2023. Missing and Murdered Ind…
Leader action: A DHS badge is not automatically help. Do not tell people the movement succeeded so the packet is fair now.
Business and Work
Real example: Self-determination contracting (Public Law 93-638). Gaming as nation revenue, not a mascot. Tribal employment. Urban professionals. Trades. Teachers. Health clinicians. Scientists in tribal natural-resources…
Leader action: A Heritage Month frybread lunch is not consultation. Native staff are not unpaid liaisons.
Diaspora and Adjacent
Real example: Alaska Native is a different brief. Other U.S. tribal citizens living in Minnesota are not automatically one of the eleven. First Nations from Canada are not the eleven. Urban Native is not a leftover. Not o…
Leader action: Open the Alaska Native CI for Alaska Native. Do not file them under the 11. Urban Native is not a leftover.
When a process asks me to do extra work to make it usable, it feels like the burden belongs to me. Tell me who owns the next step and what will happen with what I share.
Composite public perspective — illustrative · Eleven Tribal Nations of Minnesota · Translate learning into practice Carry this forward Civil Rights Memory, Business and Work, Diaspora and Adjacent provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
Open the Alaska Native CI for Alaska Native. Do not file them under the 11. Urban Native is not a leftover.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Civil Rights Memory, Business and Work, Diaspora and Adjacent 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.
