Begin the process of resolving your dispute

I have worked as a frontline facilitator and mediator in armed standoffs involving Native people and police in Canada. Also, my practice includes mediating dispute in Native communities at the grass roots level. I have worked in both teams and individually for faciliating and mediating restructuring processes in large organizations such as the Native Business Summmit Foundation of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada, Cornell University, and McGill University. I have worked for a small Native public interest research group called the Mohawk Workers (formed in 1924-present)environenvir

I have taught at the college and university level for 20 years. My work includes developing communication strategies for change in the federal and local Indian band councils. As a film maker, writer, communication specialist and educator, I have worked on major projects like the Indian Economic Development Fund (IEDF), the Native Business Summit, and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP). I received a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Cornell University specializing in Action Research.

The following listing of major disputes could also include mediating community action groups concerned with issues like local governance, environmental health, indigenous land rights. - Six Nations Reservation school lockout 1988 - Kanehsatake Standoff 1990 (Oka) - Six Nations-Toronto Waste Landfill dispute, a conflict created by the local council agreement to receive the City of Toronto's household waste (1991) - Glebe lands, Brantford (1992) - Eagles Nesst Standoff (1995) - Tutelo Heights (1998) - Red Hill Valley (2003) - Caledonia 2005 (consultant)

Dispute resolution is an educational process that involves scaffolding a crisis intervention into a search for answers to seek the win-win scenario. The crisis intervention teaches disputants to lower their verbal or firearm weapons. Listen more and talk less means that profiling and knowing disputants assists the long term process of collaboratively designing an agreement. Although I have charette experience I think that team learning produces the best results. Getting the written agreements signed is the desired result.

Fees are for services that are negotiable based on $1200/day rate for organizational training and inteventions.

I am a Mohawk Indian born in Niagara Falls NY, and raised on the Six Nations Indian Reservation. I have taught in Canada and the United States. My birth certificate states that my race/ethnicity is "red".

Ellen Gabriel President, Quebec Native Women's Association Taiaiake Alfred Director, Center for Indigenous Governance Linda Cree Policy Analyst, Assembly of First Nations Jane Jamieson Coordinator, Caledonia kanonstaten Ethel Gardner Director, Indigenous education Robert Porter Professor of Law