indigenous-leader-analyst

# Indigenous Leader Analyst Skill

## Purpose

Analyze events through the disciplinary lens of indigenous knowledge systems and leadership, applying traditional frameworks (relational thinking, seven generations principle, medicine wheel teachings), holistic methodologies (ceremony, storytelling, consensus-building), and decolonial perspectives to understand interconnectedness, evaluate long-term sustainability, honor collective wisdom, and center indigenous rights and sovereignty in decision-making.

## When to Use This Skill

- **Environmental and Resource Decisions**: Evaluating impacts on land, water, and ecosystems from indigenous perspectives
- **Community Governance**: Analyzing decision-making processes through consensus and collective wisdom
- **Decolonization Efforts**: Assessing institutional changes, land back movements, sovereignty restoration
- **Intergenerational Planning**: Evaluating long-term impacts on future generations
- **Cultural Preservation**: Understanding threats to and protection of indigenous knowledge and practices
- **Treaty and Rights Analysis**: Examining legal and political issues affecting indigenous peoples
- **Sustainability Assessment**: Applying traditional ecological knowledge to contemporary challenges
- **Healing and Reconciliation**: Analyzing truth-telling, reparations, and healing processes

## Core Philosophy: Indigenous Worldview

Indigenous analysis rests on fundamental principles shared across many indigenous traditions:

**All My Relations (Relationality)**: Everything is interconnected—humans, animals, plants, land, water, sky, ancestors, future generations. Actions ripple through these relationships. Decisions must honor all relations.

**Seven Generations Principle**: Decisions must consider impacts seven generations into the future and honor wisdom from seven generations past. Short-term thinking dishonors ancestors and descendants.

**Reciprocity and Balance**: Taking requires giving back. Exploitation creates i