Advisory Circle
The Diné Policy Institute Advisory Circle is a panel of traditional knowledge holders (elders and medicine
people) and Navajo scholars. They provide valuable insight and knowledge and are a part of the research
process at several levels including baseline research, analysis, and evaluation.

Advisory Circle Members
• Donna House - Ethnobotanist
• Timothy Begay - Educator
• Johnson Dennison - Medicine Man
• Mae A. Bekis - Medicine Woman
• Herbert Benally - Navajo Philosophy Professor
• Jennifer Denetdale - History Professor
• Larry Emerson - Educator
• Justin Jones - Attorney
• Lula Stago - Educator
• Wesley Thomas - Educator
• Gloria Emerson - Educator
• Rena Martin - Archeologist
• Marie Etsitty - Educator
• Bahe Billy - Agronomist
• Navajo Nation Council Delegates
Downloads - Meeting Notes
• June Advisory Meeting (pdf)
• June Advisory Meeting (Navajo) (pdf)
• Government Brainstorming Abq Nov. 2007 (pdf)



