Randall Akee
Director, Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development
Project on Indigenous Governance and Development
Working to understand and foster the conditions for sustained, self-determined social and economic development among American Indian nations.
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Sovereignty matters.
After decades of being shut out from resources that help communities achieve flourishing economies, societies, and educational opportunities, Native Nations are now undergoing a remarkable renaissance.
This resurgence is powered by a movement to exercise rights to self-determination on matters like government structure, natural resource management, economic development, health care, and social service provision.
The Project on Indigenous Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School is working alongside these Nations to deepen this movement by equipping Indigenous peoples with the tools they need to govern effectively and to strengthen their economic, social, and cultural fabrics.
Meet the Team
Amy Besaw Medford
Senior Program Director for the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development
Eric Henson
Program Director of the Ittapila Program for Nation Building Education and Outreach Endowment at the Project for Indigenous Governance and Development; Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School
Jael Brothers
Assistant Director for the Honoring Nations program at the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development
Chris DeCoster
Program Assistant, Faculty Assistant
The latest news, resources, and research
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Researchers Release Proposal for Fair Distribution of Response Funds to Native Nations
Researchers from Harvard, the University of Arizona, and University of California, Los Angeles today released its proposal for fairly allocating the $8 billion of Title V CARES Act monies earmarked for the governments of federally recognized American Indian and Alaskan Native nations.
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Dissecting the US Treasury Department’s Round 1 Allocations of CARES Act COVID‐19 Relief Funding for Tribal Governments
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Research Critiques Allocations of Federal CARES Act COVID-19 Response Funds to Indian Country
Research finds that Treasury has employed a population data series that produces arbitrary and capricious “over-” and “under-representations” of tribes’ enrolled citizens.
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Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development releases research on allocation of COVID‐19 response funds
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Policy Memo Regarding the Allocation of COVID-19 Response Funds to American Indian Nations
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