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The Tribal Leaders Institute (TLI) has two goals:

1. Provide character education that will decrease funds lost by tribal programs through ethical violations, and
2. Galvanize tribal members to demand ethical behavior from their leaders and themselves. What makes SLC’s ethics workshops unique? Our training is based on traditional Native American values of honesty, courage, perseverance, and generosity. We focus not on theory but on leading by example.

"Among the Dakotas lying and stealing from other tribal members was a capital offense. A person who was capable of lying was believed to be capable of committing other cowardly crimes against the tribe and was put to death to prevent the evil from doing more harm. If a person stole from another tribal member he was forever after called Wamanon (thief) and this distinction followed him for the rest of his life. " - Charles Eastman, Dakota 1858 – 1939

1. Introduction to Ethical Issues on Indian Reservations
This “introductory” course gives an overview of ethical issues on Indian Reservations today.

2. Courageous and Ethical Managers Managers need four basic functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling but even more they need four traditional values of courage, honesty, perseverance and generosity to guide them.

3. Courageous and Ethical Governing Boards Encourage governing board members to make courageous and ethical decisions.

4. Becoming a Responsible Worker How values of courage, honesty, perseverance and generosity will help you become a valuable employee.

5. Ethical Decision-making for Tribal LeadersCourageous, ethical and responsible government.

Dr Longie’s Most Recent Entries

Tribal Leaders Institute Project Completed

For those of you who have been regular visitors to our website I am sure you noticed a huge drop off in blog the last month or so. The reason for that decline in blogs is the Tribal Leaders Institute...

Elder Behaving Badly

I grew up in the 50's, 60's and early 70's (Hey, it took me a long time to mature), and I remember there were certain elders that you just automatically respected. It didn't matter what gender they were or their...

Ethical Decision-Making for our Tribal Leaders

It has been awhile since my last blog, the reason being we are almost finished with the Tribal Leaders Institute Project (TLI). The initial development phase of the TLI will come to an end at the end of August, and...

Tanyan wowunkdakapi (Dakota for good conversation) is our free, on-line discussion forum. Join tribal members from around the country to discuss:

• Reservation Ethics Reservation Ethics – discuss contemporary reservation ethics; the good, the bad, and the ugly.
• Ethics in the News Ethics in the News – Comment on and/or post links to news articles
• Ethics in History Ethics in History – Post examples of our ancestors highly ethical behavior and comment on them.
• Joe The Tribal Worker and Susie Sainte. Have your own Joe or Susie story? Share it here.

Dr. De Mars’ recent entries:

Charity: It's Not about You, Really

I really do believe that you don't have to die to get your reward from being a good person, you live it every day. In the Bible, which we read every day under threats of being whacked with a ruler...

You are a mean, bitter, little man - and I don't even know you

My youngest daughter and I don't have a lot in common, probably because she's 12 and I'll be 52 in a couple of weeks. (When I told my mother I was pregnant, her first reaction was, "Don't you know better...

The best boss ever

The best person I ever worked for was a woman named Yolanda Venegas. I've worked with some very nice people over the years, and she is certainly one of them. Every time the phone would ring and her name would...

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