Tribal and Indigenous Planning Division

Background

Mission

To promote awareness and action on Tribal and Indigenous planning issues for Tribal and Indigenous planners, peoples, nations, and their non-Tribal partners.

Vision

All planners and plans recognize, champion, and prioritize Tribal and Indigenous planning issues.

Core Values

Community and Culture
Honor and Respect
Self-Determination and Sovereignty

Focus Area Goals

Communicate — Build a network of Tribal and Indigenous planners to share information, highlight opportunities, and showcase successful projects and planning efforts.
Educate — Build capacity of tribal and non-Tribal planners to better understand issues and topics that are unique and important to Native nations and Indigenous communities.
Empower — Support Tribal and Indigenous planners to become strong allies and advocates for planning in Tribal and Indigenous communities.
Engage — Grow a larger group of Tribal and Indigenous planners and students.
Uplift — Assist Tribal and Indigenous planners as well as other APA interest groups and divisions address challenging planning issues in their communities.

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Join as a Non APA Member

Not an APA member? Let your APA membership lapse? No problem.... Join our Division as an APA affiliate member or student member!

The American Planning Association (APA) understands that not everyone can commit to paying for a full APA membership. Therefore APA welcomes anyone with a passion or interest in planning to sign up for a non-member APA account. This inclusive approach creates a low barrier entry point that welcomes a diversity of professional perspectives vital to building better communities. As an affiliate APA member you can still join and participate in any of the Planning Divisions but do not need to pay for a full APA membership! You can simply sign up for a non-member APA number. Or if you let your APA membership lapse you can still use your existing APA member to sign up for the Division only!

To join the Tribal and Indigenous Planning Division of APA as a non-member of APA just click on the link below and sign up to receive your non-member APA number. Once you have your APA number you can join the Tribal and Indigenous Planning Division of APA for only $40.

Create a Non-Member Account

To join the Tribal and Indigenous Planning Division of APA as a student-member of APA just click on the link below and sign up to receive your student-member APA number. Once you have your APA number you can join the Tribal and Indigenous Planning Division of APA for only $10.

Join APA as a Student Member

If you or someone you know work for Tribal Nation, is a Tribal leader, Is a Native American student, or works with Indigenous groups of people and is interested in supporting tribal indigenous planning please pass along this information and help us grow a larger network of tribal and indigenous voices.

Join the Tribal and Indigenous Planning Division