For three decades, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development has worked for and with American Indian tribes in the United States and Indigenous communities around the world to maximize their abilities to strengthen their economies, social fabrics, and governance systems. The role of the Project has been to document and disseminate the efforts and achievements of Indigenous peoples’ contemporary struggles for self-determination, and the lessons learned are acknowledged as key foundations of the “nation building” movement that now defines the worldwide Indigenous renaissance.

The Indigenous renaissance – the striving to assert inherent rights of self-rule and to build the capacity for effective self-government – continues. The Next Horizon gathering will bring together the leaders, the innovators, the thinkers, and the decision makers who are fighting to make Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination realities. The peer-to-peer events of the gathering will help chart the path forward.