The espoused foundation of U.S. society, "E pluribus unum" (out of many, one), is based on the belief that this nation should simultaneously support pluralism and promote unity. The road to making this ideal a reality, however, has not always been smooth. The ever-widening achievement gap highlights how this discordance plays out in our…

When American Indian/Native American studies (AI/NAS) programs began to emerge in the halls of academia during the late 1960s and early 1970s, some who served as faculty and staff questioned whether they would be one-generation phenomena. Would the programs survive, would they continue to draw students, and could they make an impact on…

This qualitative textual analysis investigates the ideological lenses through which U.S. History content standards for grades 5-12 for Arizona and Washington frame interactions between American Indians and European Americans during U.S. national development. The study's multiperspective critical conceptual framework interrogates the standards not…

Describes the career of Father Berard Haile (1874-1961), a Franciscan missionary and anthropologist who befriended Navajo Indians in Arizona and studied their culture. Haile's career spanned five decades, and he maintained a Navajo residence longer than any other Navajo ethnologist. Describes his writings, special fields, scholarly limitations,…

This newspaper article describes an educational event held by Apache leaders in Arizona to help college students learn more about tribal water issues. The students were addressed by William Veeder, a veteran attorney defending Apache rights to the headwaters of the Salt River in state and federal courts. The article describes the lawyer's address,…

The report describes, in the form of transcribed interviews, cross-cultural programs in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona identified in a May, 1973, study-tour of cross-cultural education focusing upon people of Indian ancestry. The primary goal of these visits was to identify promising procedures and accomplishments in…

This textbook for high school, college, or adult readers covers major areas of Navajo history from prehistoric times to 1846 from the Navajo point of view. A brief description of pre-Navajo cultures including the Hohokam, Mogollon, and Anasazi precedes the more detailed history of the arrival of the Navajo and contact with the Pueblo peoples.…

In the fall of 1972, as Michael Hughes began his junior year at East High School in Phoenix, Arizona, he was one of only a few American Indians in the school. Of the approximately 2,500 students, only 35--or about 1.4 percent--were Indian. To most teachers, administrators, and even fellow students, he and the other Native students in this large,…

This textbook for high school, college, or adult readers covers the history and culture of the Navajo People from their own perspective from the coming of American control in 1846 until 1978. Topics include the last Navajo war, the Long Walk, the impact of Navajo agents on policy, early traders and flourishing of crafts, settlement of reservation…

This article provides a review and summary of six years of research on food assistance and nutrition issues on Indian reservations across America that was carried out by tribal college faculty, staff, and students through a federal small grants program. An assessment of the impacts and implications of this unique research program on the tribal…

A mailed questionnaire was used to find out where Native Americans are presently employed in higher education in Arizona, how near parity the personnel numbers are, what levels of employment are included, how tribes are consulted for curriculum development and program services, and what Native American curriculums and programs are now available.…