Eastern Door: Origin
Stories
Stories
What is the correct (more traditional) term for the eastern door
Ktanaxkihlaak (Kah-taw-nah-x-kee-lock)
What is the correct (more traditional) term for the southern door
Shaawaneewang (Shaw-one-neh-wung)
What is the correct (more traditional) term for the Western door
Wsihkaang (wh-see-kong)
What is the correct (more traditional) term for the Northern door
Loowaneewang (Low-one-neh-wung)
2NN
N2N
This global legal framework outlines indigenous rights in nine topical areas, including lands, self government, and implimentation
what is UNDRIP
This major global development agenda is explicitly linked to UNDRIP implementation and is criticized for insufficient Indigenous inclusion.
What is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 Agenda?
This earlier governance model involving Tribal, Federal, and State governments is extended into the N2N model.
What is the tri-lateral model
Bowman states that this is one critical lever for transformative change in evaluation.
What is sovereignty?
PIRUDN
UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)
This theory builds on critical theory to elevate sovereignty to the systems level
what is Tribal Critical Systems theory
Bowman notes that this American professional evaluation body continues to exclude Indigenous peoples and Tribal governments in its governance work.
What is the American Evaluation Association (AEA)
Bowman references this global Indigenous-led initiative focused on environmental and wellbeing indicators.
What is the Action Group on Knowledge Systems and Indicators of Wellbeing?
Bowman calls for building these three things to improve responsiveness with Tribal Nations.
What are competencies, capacities, and experiential knowledge
TRIBLA SVEIREGNTYO
Tribal Sovereignty
According to the article, evaluation history often ignores this political relationship between Tribal and non-Tribal governments.
What is Nation-to-Nation releationship
This Canadian process and its “Beyond 94 Recommendations” are cited as examples of global initiatives that lack a Nation-to-Nation evaluation model.
What is Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?
CSH (Critical Systems Heuristics) includes these four boundary issue categories.
What are sources of motivation, power, knowledge, and legitimation?
This five-phase pathway is offered to guide intentional evaluation policy practice.
What is the Tribal policy and evaluation pathway?
CCNTOBAAILTIY
Accountability
This concept describes resistance against colonial systems through legal, political, and cultural assertion of rights.
What is Oppositional consciousness
According to Bowman, evaluation literature lacks a comprehensive model that addresses these components of Tribal governments.
What are the unique legal and political components of sovereign Tribal/First Nations governments?
Bowman explains that applying Indigenous political and legal status within CSH provides this benefit
What is designing and carrying out evaluations more responsively with Tribal/First Nations communities?
Bowman concludes that building evaluation differently may result in these.
What are different outcomes, experiences, and impacts?
RTSLOAEEINPI O CUSCNSENSSO
Oppositional Consciousness