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From Neely Bardwell
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Native Election 2024. The Native Organizers Alliance, an organization that creates change in leadership and policy through advocacy, capacity building and campaign support, announced that applications are now open for its Post-Election National Native Community Organizer Training, designed for Native organizers and tribal leaders seeking to engage community members.
The training will be a week-long gathering from November 11-16 and will focus on improving community organizing skills to build effective grassroots campaigns and movements. These trainings are part of the Native Organizers Alliance’s year-round effort to build a strong ecosystem of Indigenous leaders who will continue to strengthen the collective power of the community.
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The training will take place in Federal Way, Washington, and lodging, transportation, and most meals will be covered by the Native Organizers Alliance. Tribal and Native American community leaders in rural, reservation, or urban communities, as well as employees of Native American nonprofits, service agencies, and tribal organizations are encouraged to apply.
At the gathering, speakers plan to explore how communities have traditionally and historically used traditional values to organize themselves into communities, and how they can continue to do so today. They also plan to talk about building political power for change and how tribal and urban communities can stand up to power that denies the inherent and sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples.
The Alliance hopes that by engaging with the history of intertribal cultural values of community building, participants will return home strengthened and ready to continue their community work.
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About the author
Neely Bardwell (descendant of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian) is a staff reporter at Native News Online. Bardwell is also a student at Michigan State University, where she is majoring in political science and minoring in Native American studies.
