Dr. Karla Bird and Dr. Salena Beaumont Hill | An Indigenous Perspective of Collective Stewardship

In the final episode of our special series on the ten characteristics of servant leadership, we celebrate an awe-inspiring perspective of the definition of stewardship and explore leadership through an Indigenous lens. 

Dr. Karla Bird of the Blackfeet Amskapi Piikani Nation and Dr. Salena Beaumont Hill of the Crow Nation discuss the Indigenous experience with leadership and community contribution. And they explain why language around stewardship matters to people when an idea like volunteerism embeds their culture.

Hear how spirituality and collective responsibility heal tribal communities and why the two women believe in the freedom of choice over the notion of following.    

Join us as we discuss:

• Examining stewardship through an Indigenous lens (11:46)
• Walking the line between appropriation and understanding (24:20)
• The spirit to choose in a non-hierarchal community of equals (38:31)
• Centering indigenous education in a system that doesn’t fit (47:05)

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

• University of Montana
• Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
• Reservation Dogs
• All My Relations

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