Strategies for 2016-18
In this workshop participants developed potential actions that could be taken in the
next two years to launch the 3E Team Vision. The group then wove those action
elements into strategies. The group identified actions that launch vision activities
and actions that address the contradictions. The strategies then came together
through group dialogue, which in-turn, led to consensus statements describing the
strategic approach to the work moving forward.



C ULTIVATING S EEDS O F A NISHINAABE K NOWLEDGE F OR O UR
P EOPLE T O G ROW
   Produce educational material.
   Train the trainers in educating community
   Creation of educational videos
   Create an educational packet
   Obtain and decipher gov. docs
   Utilize social media to ask “what if” and create action steps based on answers
   Locate and define knowledge keepers and experts in their field (rice, law,
    social)
   Create culturally competent recovery / wellness center – Healing Through
    Education


C ONVENING T HE P EOPLE T O C REATE C OMMON U NDERSTANDINGS
T O L EAD T HE C ONSTITUTIONAL E DUCATIONAL E FFORTS A T A
G RASS R OOTS L EVEL
   Promote productive dialogue. Talk! “What do you think?”
   Piggy-back on existing Tribal community meetings / gatherings to hold
    listening sessions on enrollment, residency, etc.
   Keep convening 3E
   Exploring avenues to continue this work
   Network with other Shinobs (community meetings, sessions, talking groups,
    internet)
   Hold meetings / discussions where all are welcome, valued & heard
   Organize community meetings


P RIORITIZING R EVITALIZATION O F A NISHINAABE I DENTITY T O
G ROW & S UPPORT A S TRONG G OVERNMENT
   Help people find their Anishinaabe success
   Participate in and encourage cultural events that empower people to practice
    our values and learn language (e.g. gather medicines, Anishinaabe names)
   Spread mind-body-spirit techniques to manage stress & trauma
   Re-establish education as mind, body, spirit (coping, conflict resolution)


E NCOURAGING P OSITIVE P ARTICIPATION I N O UR G OVERNANCE
   Vote in secretarial election! (Lead by example)
   Train people from each reservation: facilitation skills, MCT constitution,
    treaties, etc (full time job)
   Define ways of empowering people to create a positive future
   Develop and administer ta survey related to governance and future. Include
    willingness to contribute to organizing
   Recruiting participants to spread the word
   Develop a community survey
   Launch a social media communication
   Practice. Do. Show, not tell. Now.
Strategic Opportunities
     The group was asked to review the two year strategies and determine what the
     arrangement of the strategies would be if one particular strategy would be at the
     forefront of creating new opportunities, momentum or involvement in the overall
     work to achieve the vision of the group. The group acknowledged that ALL of the
     strategies are significant in the effort to move ahead and arrived at the following
     arrangement of two- year strategies.

                        What Strategic 2-Year Actions Can We Take To
                         Launch Our Vision And Address The Issues?

     The front of the arrow represents that effort which creates breakthrough
     opportunity for 3E; at the center are those which produce critical mass in the effort;
     at the rear are those strategies which create lift and stability to assure distance in
     the trajectory of the work.




           CULTIVATING
           S EEDS O F
           A NISHINAABE
           K NOWLEDGE
           FOR O UR                                       CONVENING
           P EOPLE T O              E NCOURAGING          T HE P EOPLE T O CREATE
           G ROW                    P OSITIVE             COMMON U NDERSTANDINGS T O
                                    P ARTICIPATION        L EAD T HE C ONSTITUTIONAL
                                    I N O UR              E DUCATION E FFORTS A T A
                                    G OVERNANCE           G RASS R OOTS
                                                          L EVEL
           P RIORITIZING
           REVITALIZATION
           O F A NISHINAABE
           I DENTITY T O
           G ROW &
           S UPPORT A
           S TRONG
           G OVERNMENT