Current notions of democracy rest on the exclusion of minority ideas that leads to their elimination- only incorporating Native concepts of democracy can prevent the systemic elimination of minority

Begaye 08 Tim Prof of Education at Arizona State “Modern Democracy: The Complexities Behind Appropriating Indigenous Models of Governance and Implementation,” ,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pp 467-468

Decolonization must be at the forefront of all activities- failure to do so dehumanizes all involved

McCaslin and Breton 08 Wanda D. Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Research Officer with the Native Law Centre of Canada, Denise C. founder and executive director of Living Justice Press, “Justice as healing: Going outside the colonizer’s cage,” ,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pp 513

Confronting colonialism is the only way to solve extinction

Friedberg, author and political activist with a master's degree in the humanities from the university of Chicago and has a doctorate in Germanic studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2k [Lillian , dare to compare:  Americanizing  the holocaust, the American Indian quarterly 24.3 (2000) 353-380]

Thus the alternative: Vote negative to adopt a pedagogy of decolonization

Only shifting the framework to questions of decolonization can we solve- only unconditional acceptance of a decolonizing framework can empower indigenous peoples to break out of colonial oppression

McCaslin and Breton 08 Wanda D. Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Research Officer with the Native Law Centre of Canada, Denise C. founder and executive director of Living Justice Press, “Justice as healing: Going outside the colonizer’s cage,” ,” Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, pp 528-529

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The affirmative’s approach to democracy assistance creates a gendered notion of democracy that undermines the status of women and locks in patriarchal hierarchies and undermine democratic transitions

Handrahan 02 Ph.D. is from London School of Economics' Sociology and Gender Institute, Professional Lecturer at the American University School of International Service, holds over twenty years of practitioner work, in Central Asia, Asia, Africa and the Balkans, focused on gender-based violence, international human rights, humanitarian response, conflict and post-conflict environments, masculinities and men/boys in development and violence, and gender within UN reform and organizational change, Gendering Ethnicity: Implications for Democracy Assistance, New York: Routledge, p. 86

Failure to challenge patriarchy and how our institutions perpetuate it ensures extinction

French 85 Former Prof at Hofstra, Harvard, and Holy Cross, Marilyn, Beyond power: on women, men, &morals, 356

The alternative is to engage in transversal forms of feminist inquiry of democracy assistance- only such an approach can engage the gendered ethnicity confronting democracy assistance and create successful democracy assistance programs

Handrahan 02 Ph.D. is from London School of Economics' Sociology and Gender Institute, Professional Lecturer at the American University School of International Service, holds over twenty years of practitioner work, in Central Asia, Asia, Africa and the Balkans, focused on gender-based violence, international human rights, humanitarian response, conflict and post-conflict environments, masculinities and men/boys in development and violence, and gender within UN reform and organizational change, Gendering Ethnicity: Implications for Democracy Assistance, New York: Routledge, p.209-211