🍶 THE ROADSIDE STAND
Size it up. Then learn it. Then do something.
What are you selling?
Every stand starts with an inventory. This page is yours: what you know, what you can do, what you could offer. You’re already qualified → · the Trading Post matches gifts to needs →
Regardless of who wins the election, we just gained a lot of great information about this place — and now it’s time to act and do our part. The people matter more than any candidate. This is where you take the measure of things — the candidates, the system, and yourself — and follow it into learning and action. Every tool here is a doorway. Play, discover, then walk through.
How it works: each tool below is a quick way to size something up. When it shows you a gap — something you didn’t know, or a place you’re not sure — that’s the invitation. Follow the → Learn and → Do links to fill it and act on it. That’s how an everyday leader is made.
Assess the candidates
Make up your own mind — the site never does it for you. These help you weigh the people asking to borrow your power.
Walk through the candidates side by side, one question at a time.
→ Learn: How to weigh an answer · → Do: Build your shortlist
A checklist for spotting real answers versus runaround.
→ Learn: Did they answer? · → Do: Ask them yourself
The positions, lined up by subject, in their own words.
→ Learn: What the interviews said · → Do: Save your shortlist
Assess yourself
The hardest thing to size up is your own gifts. Most of us were never taught how. Start here — there’s no wrong answer, and no one sees it but you.
Everyday life builds real skills. Find the ones you already have.
→ Learn: Capacity & leadership · → Do: Join the work
Leadership here never needed a title. See what kind is yours.
→ Learn: Build your dream team · → Do: Come aboard
Test what you know about doing business the Navajo way.
→ Learn: The NBOA, explained · → Do: The Business Opportunity Mission
Assess the system
You can’t fix what you don’t understand. These make the machinery of the Nation visible — who holds power, who does what, and where things get stuck.
A quick game: match each power to whoever actually holds it.
→ Learn: Government 101 · → Do: The Reform Mission
Match the problem to the office that’s supposed to handle it.
→ Learn: Who does what · → Do: File a complaint
Tribal, state, or federal? A scenario game about who has authority.
→ Learn: Justice System 101 · → Do: Get legal help
Test your civic knowledge across every category, game-show style.
→ Learn: The Civic Academy · → Do: What you can do now
TAKE ACTION
Keep your own record. As you assess, learn, and act, the site can remember what you’ve done — privately, on your own device, seen by no one but you. It’s your growing record as an everyday leader.
Candidates come and go — and whoever wins, the work is the same. We know this place better now. The people who show up, learn, and act are the ones who build a better tomorrow. That’s us. Let’s do our part.