Be a part of Leading Change in 2008!

Join us in Alaska this October, for the American Planning Association’s 2008 Indigenous Planning Division Conference, Leading Change: Blending Indigenous and Western Planning Tools. This conference will bring together community planners, tribal planners, local leaders, and all other community development professionals to share local experiences, planning tools, and indigenous planning perspectives.

Conference Highlights
Click here for the preliminary agenda...
     Opening Reception
          September 30, 2008 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
          Alaska Native Heritage Center (see Google map)
          Refreshments and dance performances
          Transportation provided from the Anchorage Marriott Downtown
          An alchohol-free event

Keynote Speaker
Johnpaul Jones, FAIA
Johnpaul Jones has a distinguished 40-year career as an architect and founding partner of the seattle based Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects. Mr. Jones' designs have won widespread acclaim for their reverence for the earth, for paying deep respect to regional architectural traditions and native landscapes, and for heightening understanding of indigenous people and cultures of America. He will be speaking on the topic "Creating Places that Incorporate both the Practical and the Spiritual - Heightening Human Sensitivity to Cultural and Environmental Issues. "

      Summit on Tribal Planning
          The conference will include a facilitated summit on tribal planning, a collaborative effort of the Leading Change
          conference, the American Planning Association's Indigenous Planning Division and National Congress of American
          Indian's Policy Research Center.

This year’s conference is hosted by Rural Alaska Community Action Program (RurAL CAP) through partnerships with the American Planning Association’s Alaska and Hawaii Chapters and Indigenous Planning Division, and the State of Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs with additional staff support from Agnew::Beck Consulting LLC. We appreciate the support of these organizations in creating this opportunity.

We sincerely hope you will be able to join us in Anchorage for this very special event.

- The 2008 Indigenous Planning Conference Steering Committee

We would like to thank the sponsors of the 2008 APA Indigenous Planning Conference:



"We have also been through a time of great change. Who will tell the people of the future who they are and how they got there? We will." - Jack Dalton, Hooper Bay, Alaska
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APA Web Site - APA IP Division - Alaska APA - Hawaii APA - RurAL CAP
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