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Leadership Values and Acculturation among the Oglala Lakota Leadership
2019 •
Richard Iron Cloud
Leadership Values and Acculturation among the Oglala Lakota Leadership by Richard Iron Cloud MA, Oglala Lakota College BS, Fort Lewis College Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Psychology Walden University August 2019 Abstract There are currently no research studies that investigate the relationship between acculturation and leadership values and practices among the Indigenous Tribes on the Northern Plains of the United States. The study was initiated because Native American Elders on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were concerned that traditional altruistic leadership style was being lost in today’s Native American leadership practice. Accordingly, acculturation and servant leadership theories were used to guide the study. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design incorporated the use of quantitative data based on the Servant Leadership Profile (SLP) and the Native American Acculturation Scale. (NAAS). The ...
Indigenous Leadership Development Theory in a 21st Century World: How would past Navajo Tribal Chairman Jacob C. Morgan’s vision for the Navajo Nation contribute to an evolving paradigm on Navajo Leadership Development?
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Being Native American in business: Culture, identity, and authentic leadership in modern American Indian enterprises
Stephanie L Black, Dan Stewart, Carolyn Birmingham
Tribally owned American Indian enterprises provide a unique cross-cultural setting for emerging Native American business leaders. This article examines the manner in which American Indian leaders negotiate the boundaries between their indigenous organizations and the nonindigenous communities in which they do business. Through a series of qualitative interviews, we find that American Indian business leaders fall back on a strong sense of ''self,'' which allows them to maintain effective leadership across boundaries. This is highly consistent with theories of authentic leadership. Furthermore, we find that leaders define self through their collective identity, which is heavily influenced by tribal affiliation and tribal culture. We add to the literature on authentic leadership by showing the role that culture and collective identity have in creating leader authenticity within the indigenous community.
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William Ruff
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Social justice leadership for American Indian sovereignty: A model for principal preparation
2015 •
William Ruff
The Indian Leadership Education and Development project (ILEAD) at Little Bighorn Tribal College and Montana State University did not begin with an intentional focus on social justice; this article tracks the evolution of the program to becoming a model for indigenously sensitive/culturally responsive preparation for K-12 school leaders. Beginning with a U.S. Department of Education grant in 2006 and after three iterations, the program has trained over 70 American Indian school administrators serving Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming. Despite the program's success in preparing school leaders for historically underserved reservations and other schools across Indian country, the program has not achieved success without significant transformation from a dominant society, western academy, typical educational leadership program to becoming a program sensitive to Indigenous ways of being/ knowing but actually honoring and recognizing how these American Indian ontologies/...
Minnesota Native American Leadership Alumni Network Project 2011-2016
2016 •
Mary McEathron
In 2011, representatives from Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP) and the Tiwahe, Blandin, Bush, Northwest Area and Headwaters Foundations formed the Native American Leadership Collaboration to learn together about the work each was doing to support American Indian leadership development.This report discusses its process to advance a collective leadership movement in Native communities
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
Healers and Helpers, Unifying the People: A Qualitative Study of Lakota Leadership
2012 •
Kem Gambrell
Previously, scholars have implied that leadership theory is “universal” enough and can be applied systematically regardless of cultural influences in subcultures. Leadership research has limited its scope of discernment to dominant society, implying that nonmainstream individuals will acquiesce and that cultural differences are inconsequential. Therefore, the intention of this study was to address the disparity between current leadership theories and a subgroup perspective. Specifically, this study explored leadership from a Lakota Sioux perspective. In this qualitative grounded theory study, six major and five minor themes surfaced: Traditional Values and Behaviors, Putting Others First, Lakota Leadership Qualities (Men, Women, and Fallen Leaders), The Red Road, Nation Building (“Real” Natives and Bicultural), and Barriers. These findings reveal that Lakota leadership is not elucidated by current theory. Thus, to effectively illustrate leadership, researchers should broaden context...
Journal of Research on Leadership Education
Identity-based and Reputational Leadership: An American Indian Approach to Leadership
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John Tippeconnic
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How Transformational Leadership Can Help Native American Students
2021 •
UMW Registrar Office
In this paper, I examine the challenges that Native American students face in higher education and the role that education plays in their lives. I provide data on this topic spanning more than three decades through a literature review of three published articles. Through this literature review, I reveal key challenges that Native American students historically have faced and provide information on what factors play an important role in their success. Furthermore, I expose a research gap on the role that higher education administrators can play in addressing these challenges and inequities. I present strategies and recommendations on how to effectively implement a sustainable way to address these challenges from an ethical and practical perspective.
