In light of hundreds of years of colonization and missions history, the Native leaders best suited as innovators to introduce and negotiate new contextualization efforts are multicultural people who can navigate the Anglo, Native, urban and reservation cultural worlds as interpreters. It is important to understand this because of the historical tension typically confronting these types of people in a colonial context. They are often misunderstood by both sides, while playing a critical role, for better or worse, as cultural brokers or interpreters within a governing dominant culture.
