Since the passage in 1988 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which recognized the authority of Native American tribal groups to operate gaming facilities free from state and federal oversight and taxation, gambling has emerged as a major industry in Indian Country. Casinos offer poverty-stricken reservation communities confined to meager slices…

Growing up on a reservation, one takes a few things for granted. One assumes the presence of Native people and an understanding of Native life. When one leaves that environment, however, one quickly understands that not everyone has spent substantial parts of their lives in contact with Native people. In this essay, the author provides his…

A student health doctor describes his experiences working in a clinic on an Indian reservation during summer vacation. (JD)

Analyzes how Filipinos, working under a stratified polyethnic system which treated Whites, Native American Indians, Japanese, and Filipinos differently, were able to establish a permanent agricultural community in the Yakima Valley before World War II. (LHW)

Native American environmental activists face barriers to funding because of complex documentation requirements and false assistance by urban environmental groups. Offers suggestions that allow Native peoples to generate their own solutions and build relationships with other communities of Native activists. (KS)

Chronicles the feud between Ezekial Proctor and White Sut Beck, two members of the Cherokee nation in the nineteenth century. Shows how the tragic culmination of this disagreement was the result of jurisdictional disputes between the Cherokee Nation and the U.S. government. (AEM)

Interview with Ed Driving Hawk, the new president of NCAI, discusses goals for the organization, including the need to reach out to other minority groups to create a consolidated voting block for the 1980 elections. Also describes problems on his home reservation, government harassment, and congressional attitudes toward Indian concerns. (DS)

While the criminal reform bill, S.1722m, has great potential for straightening out the jurisdictional morass on Indian reservations, it is evading the more controversial issues. After describing past difficulties in determining criminal jurisdiction on tribal lands, this article discusses needed reforms and what is missing in the new law.…

Using Becker's sacred/secular community type continuum and Bailey's concepts of elite/arena council behavior, examined the educational decision making process on the Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho. Discusses implications for American Indian education. (GC)

Gary Kimble, past staff attorney of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, cites resource management as one of the most important current issues in Indian affairs. Discusses water rights, coordination of energy efforts between tribes, and the need for Indians to know all the ramifications of reservation energy development. (DS)

A mineral agreements expert discusses the options open to tribes, from the most standard lease form to arrangements as yet untried by Indian Nations. Discussion covers 18 basic provisions for inclusion in agreements, tax considerations, and basic forms of petroleum agreements (leases, joint ventures, production sharing, and service contracts).…

Discusses the use of technology in Native American schools and the resulting possible assimilation of young native people into the nonnative culture. Highlights include keeping traditional values alive; the relationship between education and traditional native culture; and examples of three reservation schools that are successfully integrating…

Discusses the contact zone of the Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska, examining the complicity of the transnational corporation and the reservation school in the enterprise of cultural colonialism. Argues that postcolonial discourse can be a critical first step for borderland learners on the path to active subject position, to becoming active…

Argues that to manage a tribe's investment portfolio well requires knowledge of the tribe's needs as well as of the money management industry and its concepts and language. Discusses opportunities for the investment of tribal funds, examining mutual funds, the use of investment advisors and consultants, diversification, and levels of risk. (MAB)

This report is based upon a 1985-86 survey conducted by the Dull Knife Memorial College Indian Child Welfare Project. A series of workshops were conducted throughout Montana to acquaint providers of services for abused and neglected Indian children with the requirements of and issues associated with the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.…