Governance, Enterprises, and Rebuilding Native Economies

  Stephen Cornell the director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Arizona. In this video Cornell is at his first focus seminar, the focus seminars is a very good way for him to share the information that he has research. I think the more he does this type of approach with the seminars, people will become more aware with nation building it will begin to become more known to others.  Cornell speaks to the guest and gives quick overview of nation owed enterprises, how they work, different approaches and economical development issues. He shares that this seminar was something different for him because he usually spend two days just sitting down and talking to tribal council and senior leader going over nation building from A to Z.  Cornell shares the mistakes that most Indian Country's make with using something called the home ran approach, to start a business. The home ran approach is what many reservation do, they take out grants, hire as many people possible and do not take the steps or research to see if the business will work. They hope for the best but it ends up failing. This is because it is not properly organized they look for the quick fix. The second approach is nation building, this approach looks at ways to properly own and organize a business so that the business is will succeed in the future as well.

Induction to Nation Building

The guest speakers that are in the video are Dr. Manley Begay, "is both Director of the Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Senior Lecturer in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona . He is also Codirector of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University". The other guest speaker is Dr Stephen Cornell  "is director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Arizona . He also is co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, a research program headquartered at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University".

Nation building should be exercised in every aboriginal community, people need to explore new ways on how to start successful businesses. It seem to me that many communities are stuck in a cycle of making businesses that make out good at first and then end up failing. Having people like Cornell and Begay come and educate each community would help leaders and communities begin to open their eyes to new ways and methods.

 Begay and Coronell speak about effective ways to build successful economical development in aboriginal communities.  Nation Building is what the two speak about, they researched about how to make nation building a successful reality. Nation building is a chance to rethink, restructure, reorganized a chance to start a strong successful business. The five keys that make nation building successful are self governance, cultural match, strategic orientation, leadership and taking charge by making their own self-rule. I think when communities learn how to make nation building a reality each community could be strong and successful. Cornell and Begay shared about many other communities that have been using the nation building step and tools and how effective the outcomes has been for them. All the stories shared were all very good ones and all were successful with nation building, that just shows that it does work.