"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

Leading Change: Blending Indigenous and Western Planning Tools
Conference Sessions
 
Creating Places that Incorporate both the Practical and the Spiritual – Heightening Human Sensitivity to Cultural and Environmental Issues
 - Johnpaul Jones of Jones and Jones Architects and Landscape Architects in Seattle, Washington
   Download PDF | Power Point

Prioritizing Development Projects
 - Pearl Mikulski, Kawerak Inc of Nome, Alaska
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Indigenous Sovereignty and Planning in Three Regions:  Hawaii, Alaska, and the Lower 48
 - Sharon Hausam, Pueblo of Laguna; Scott Derrickson, Hawaii State Office of Planning; Mike Williams, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council (Download PDF | PowerPoint)

Rural Planning:  The Status of Alaska’s Rural and Indigenous Communities
 - Nicole Grewe and Peter McKay, Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs; Brian Templin, City of Craig;  Ulric Ulroan, City of Chevak

Incubating Small Businesses in Rural Alaska:  the Bristol Bay Tourism Model
 - Heather Stewart, Shelly Wade, and Chris Beck, Agnew::Beck Consulting (Download PowerPoint)

History in the Making:  Telling Your Story Through the Community Plan
 - Mitzi Barker, Rural Alaska Community Action Program (Download PDF)

Leveraging Indigenous Power:  How to Build a Collaborative Community & Regional Development Agreement
 - Sheila Selkregg, University of Alaska Anchorage (Download PowerPoint)

Planning for Real:  Making it Happen in Indian Country
 - Daniel Feidt and Dennis Sun Rhodes, AmerINDIAN;  Rodney Class-Erickson, Southern Ute Indian Tribe (Download PDF)

Rebuilding the Center of the Community
 - Siikauraq Martha Whiting, Northwest Arctic Borough

Looking Backward, Planning Forward, and Leading Change:  Indigenous Perspectives on Planning
 - Malinda Chase, Association of Interior Native Educators;  Charlene Stern, RurAL CAP

Land Asset Management as a Tool for Mission:  Historic, Current and Future Practices of Three Major Native Hawaiian Trusts

  1. Jonathan Scheuer, Office of Hawaiian Affairs (Download PDF | Download PowerPoint)
  2. Noa Emmett Aluli, Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission (Download PowerPoint)
  3. Hilarie Alomar and Marissa Harman, Kamehameha Schools (Download PowerPoint )

Area-Wide Natural Resource Planning
 - Susan Flensburg, Bristol Bay Native Association;  Davin Holen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game;  Oscar Kawagley, University of Alaska Fairbanks;  Donita Slawson, Tyonek Native Corporation;  Tami Fordham, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                       
 Chiefly Leadership
- Tom Kaulukukui of the Queen Liliuokalani Trust in Honolulu, Hawaii (Download PowerPoint)

Should We Build It?  Practical Steps for Evaluating a Facility Project and Creating a Sustainable Community Facility Plan
 - Thea Agnew Bemben and Beth McLaughlin, Agnew::Beck Consulting (Download PowerPoint)

The Human Rights of Relocation
 - Robin Bronen, Alaska Immigration Justice Project

Planning the Future, while Honoring the Past
 - Ray Soon, Solutions Pacific LLC; (Download PowerPoint)   Gordon Pullar, University of Alaska Fairbanks-College of Rural and Community Development;  Arvin Trujillo, Navajo Nation;  Charlene Vaughn, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Collaborative Community Planning for a Sustainable Alaskan Village
 - Sally Russell Cox, Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs; (Download PowerPoint)   Stanley Tom, Newtok Traditional Council;  Laurie Cummings, HDR Alaska Inc.;  Greg Magee, Village Safe Water

Lua and Leadership
 - Tom Kaulukukui, Queen Liliuokalani Trust (Download PowerPoint)

Stakeholders Count:  Working with Stakeholders to Successfully Integrate Local and Traditional Knowledge into Oil and Gas Project Development
 - Elizabeth Benson (Download PowerPoint), Caren Mathis, Arlene Thomas, and Jennifer Tobey, ASRC Energy Services

Data Resources for Planners
Analyzing Census Data Using Basic Demographic Tools
Adelamar Alcantara, University of New Mexico
Alaska Population and Economic Data 
Greg Williams, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development
            Jeff Hadland, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Ethics and Planners
  -
Graham Billingsley, Billingsley Consultants (Download PDF 1 | Download PDF 2)

Planning Law:  the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)
 – David Case, Landye Bennett Blumstein LLP (Download PDF)

Planning to Make a Difference
 - Loretta Bullard of Kawerak, Inc. in Nome, Alaska

Considerations-Process-Products:  an Alaskan Village Corporation’s 2008 Land Management Plan
 - Barbara Sheinberg, Sheinberg Associates;  Mary Edenshaw, Klawock Heenya Corporation

Avoiding the Commodification of Culture in Tourism Through Design and Teaching:  Perspectives of a Native Hawaiian Practitioner
 - Ramsay Taum, Life Enhancement Institute of the Pacific;  Peter Apo, The Peter Apo Company

Building Ongoing Alaska Native-Local Government Partnerships:  The Mat-Su Experience
 - John Duffy, Frankie Barker, and Brad Sworts, Matanuska-Susitna Borough;  Angela Wade, Chickaloon Village Environmental Program;  Tom Harris, Tyonek Native Association

Transportation Planning and Rural Community Development
 - Steve Becker, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Indigenous Governance
 - Neil Gillespie, Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (Download PDF 1 | Download PDF 2 | Download PDF 3)

Sustaining and Growing Tribal Leaders
 - Patience Anderson Faulkner, Native Village of Eyak

The Role of the Computer in Transforming Rural Enclaves into Business Nodes:  The Implications for Economic Planning
 - Jade Danner, Hawaiian Homestead Technology, Inc.

Challenges in the Delivery of Rural Water and Sanitation Infrastructure
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Nicole Grewe and Josie Bahnke, Alaska Division of Community & Regional Affairs
  - Joe Sarcone, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Download PDF)