Amy Gould was invited to be a journal guest editor for a special issue in Administrative Theory & Praxis about Indigenous Public Administration. In addition to serving as a guest editor, her written contribution under review for publication is an article about the following: 

Tribal Public Administration:  

Unlearning Truths to Reconcile Normative Public Administration 

ABSTRACT 

Reconciliation of public administration is ongoing. By unlearning the dominant derivatives of normative public administration and learning its collision with tribal governance, we may collectively carve spaces to affirm pasts and possible futures with tribal public administration. In these ways, a shared public administration strength comes from sitting with truths as they are remembered and bearing witness to the generational processes of reconciliation. This is different from what is often seen as a strength in public administration: to solve problems. However, reconciliation is not about solution. Reconciliation is about resolution (seeking clarity by affirmation). Respecting the distinctly unique ways tribal public administration occurs across 574 federally recognized place-based tribal governments and communities within the United States, this article reflects on the prompt: what truths does normative public administration need to unlearn to have resolute clarity for learning reconciliation with tribal public administration?