Tribal Relations Training Series

/ Remote Participation - Zoom/

This 4-part series on Tribal Relations has been over a year in the making. Collaboratively designed by the BHT Tribal Partners Leadership Council, local tribal community members, and the EWU Office of Native American Affairs, this series will cover how to:

  • understand the complexities of policy implementation from federal, state, and tribal perspectives

  • establish and/or improve relationships with tribes and tribal organizations

  • build awareness of culturally responsive care and services

  • provide culturally appropriate care and services through collaboration with tribes and tribal organizations

This training is open to all BHT partners. Please limit registrations to 1-3 individuals per organization. Please note, this training will be held in 4 three hour sessions. You must register for all 4 sessions.

  • Session 1: Thursday, November 5

    • 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

  • Session 2: Thursday, November 12

    • 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

  • Session 3: Thursday, November 19

    • 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

  • Session 4: Thursday, December 3

    • 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Topics covered by date:

November 5

Series Grounding

  • Intercultural development continuum

  • Where I'm from

  • Values

  • Discussion of native values and overview of curriculum

Regional Tribal History

  • The landscape of the region

  • White settlement and intertribal connection

  • Forced Removal Era

November 12

Native Education - Empathetical context

  • Political organization and citizenship

  • Roots of education in the US; race and capitalism

  • Thomas Jefferson and US Citizenship

  • Federal Indian Education Policy

  • Indian identity

  • Native community connection

  • Intergenerational trauma

  • Current policy: self-determination and sovereignty

  • Inequities

  • COVID-19

November 19

Indian Health Care: The Medicine Wheel and Patient-Centered Care; physical, emotional, spiritual, mental.

  • Traditional healing

  • Mental Health

  • Support IHCPs and patients

  • Chronic Disease

  • MMIW

  • Access to health care

  • COVID-19

  • Intergenerational trauma

  • Inequities

December 3

Changing the Narrative of Indigenous People: Invisibility and myths harm our children, our peoples and our nations. They deny our humanity. And they keep the larger society from benefiting from our wisdom, perspectives and leadership to find solutions to our country’s most critical issues.

  • Reclaiming Native Truth

  • Indigenous Network Survey

  • Allies Action Guide

  • Native focused curriculum

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