Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) allocations for Indian training programs are presented via a map depicting allocations. (JC)

Among Coast Salish and other Washington tribes, federal War on Poverty programs produced important unintended consequences, providing income that enabled family networks to distribute moral and financial support and providing training opportunities for new leaders now instrumental in attracting funding for mental health programs. Contains 42…

A number of exemplary planning mechanisms and systems implemented by Native American Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grantees to achieve coordination of resources for reservation economic development are highlighted in this handbook on integrated planning. Also included is an examination of the problems caused by the failure to…

Developed to assist Native American reservation program planners, this handbook highlights a number of exemplary uses of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) funds in reservation economic development, presents a discussion of the problems reservations may face in meeting the new funding directions of the federal government, and…

Field study and analysis of program documents were undertaken in the first phase of a multi-phased research effort to improve and strengthen the relationships between CETA programs and economic development activities on Indian reservations. Exploratory in nature, the study examined the approaches developed by 24 Indian reservations and Native…

The Ketchikan Mural Project was a community supported program funded in part through CETA, Title III, Summer Program for Economically Disadvantaged Youth. The 120' by 70' mural, located on the Ketchikan Community College campus, is called "Return of the Eagle" or "Return of Supernatural Powers." It was executed by muralist Don…

To guide Indian reservation program planners, the handbook highlights three exemplary community-based data collection efforts undertaken by Native American Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grantees to improve their planning and program development activities. Exemplary data collection activities reported include the Spokane…

A perspective on the state of reservation development is provided in this document, which reports the results of a study conducted among 25 Indian reservations to determine the degree of integration between CETA Indian manpower plans and the Overall Economic Development Plans. An introductory chapter provides a history of the study and identifies…