Transactional leaders, learned craft under the Indian Act, maintain the status quo; manage funds only. We are in the 21st century, when we need to move back into traditional territories. Psychology, to address colonial thinking that set up the Indian Act, and took away our natural resources, our identity, all the while abusing us. We need transformational leaders who work to our co-created vision, so we all own the movement forward; and we will not stop until truth is all full out in the open to change the status quo. Anthropology, looking back, way back, when under our traditions, our laws of respect, there was abundance all around us, in our oceans, and throughout our sacred geography. Our past generations passed down this sustaining philosophy that we have to learn to align our governance. Transformational leaders will understand this is the cultural alignment, instead of preferring to act as Indian Agents, their pay their bottom line and I am the "hero" mentality. What we have today is managers, not leaders, they are transactional leaders accustomed to administrating when we need transformations, governance owned by the people. This cultural alignment spread throughout the land; and we do action research, or participant action research, reach consensus, just as we do when we to get ready for our ceremonies. When we reach unity, then we can govern, adding hierarchy to matriarchy and this movement is circular, we do better as time marches on.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:40:19 +0000