The symposium will start at 8:30 a.m. and go all day, with panels on decolonization, "Taking the Lead" and finally a convocation of all the living Navajo Nation chairmen and presidents, past and present.
"We don't know how many of them will take us up on the invitation, but we've invited all of them," said Lloyd Lee, board president of the Navajo Studies Conference, which is sponsoring the symposium.
There will also be a community discussion in which all attendees are invited to share their views.
Lunch and dinner will be available for purchase.
According to NSC board member Jennifer Denetdale, a discussion on leadership is pertinent this election year and the Navajo Nation Museum is the perfect venue while it is hosting an exhibit on the tribe's early leaders.
Lee said there's much more to say about leadership than can be covered in one day, so the board is hoping to make the symposium an annual event for five years, culminating in a full-fledged Navajo Studies Conference like the one held last year in Shiprock.
"We're hoping to do it in various locations on the Navajo Nation," he said. "We want to be very Navajo-specific, so we'll probably do it in the east first, followed by the south, west and north."
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