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Indigenous leadership in a non-Indigenous space A leadership story

By: Nicole Brouwer  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jelpp-2025-0008 | Journal eISSN: 1178-8704 | Journal ISSN: 1178-8690
Language: English
Page range: 99 - 110
Published on: Dec 31, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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