Dr. Joseph Gone
National expert in American Indian psychology and mental health, Dr. Gone, Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Anthropology) and the Faculty of Medicine (Global Health and Social Medicine) at Harvard University, has collaborated with tribal communities for over 25 years to harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing indigenous well-being. He does so from the perspective of a scholar who is trained in health service psychology, inspired by anthropology-style interpretive analysis, and committed to participatory research strategies.

Abstract
Leadership is the exercise of interpersonal influence on others to achieve desired goals. Indigenous leadership is the exercise of such influence either: (1) by Indigenous people, (2) on Indigenous people, and/or (3) to achieve goals desired by Indigenous people. In the course of my career, I have had opportunity to encounter distinct approaches to leadership, whether in the U.S. military, in student activism, in tribal administration, or in university faculty affairs. Such opportunities have occasioned both personal and professional reflections on traditional leadership among my own Aaniiih-Gros Ventre people, including an assessment of the relevance of these practices for achieving outcomes and solving problems in modern life. In this presentation, I aim to catalyze our thinking about Indigenous leadership in ways that explore and assess Indigenous traditional precedents for their contemporary relevance.

Light refreshments provided.