Describes the Early Head Start program, which provides children ages six-weeks to three-years old and their families, with special attention to promote personal growth and educational success. The parents of program participants are also provided with educational opportunities to improve the quality of family life. Studies indicate that the Early…

Defines federal consultation with American Indian tribes (including lineal descendants, traditional religious leaders, and interested public) to ensure a tribal voice in federal management of tribal lands and cultural resources as required by the Constitution, treaties, statutes, court decisions, and policy. Cites consultation specifics of 11…

Based on findings derived from ethnographic interviews with the staff of the 130 Project sponsored by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, clusters factors affecting the project into administrative considerations and concerns and counselor attitudes and behaviors. Provides recommendations for operating 130 Projects and serving Cherokee Nation members…

Describes the efforts made by the Assembly of First Nations and others to restore Canadian Native children to their original tribe and culture. Discusses the "sixties scoop," during which the Canadian government intentionally took Aboriginal children out of their tribal communities and placed them with non-Native adoptive families, and…

Describes the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society (NAFWS) and its activities and fund-raising efforts. NAFWS was formed in 1982 to help tribes protect and manage fish, wildlife, and environmental resources. Funded largely by federal grants, NAFWS provides culturally based training, education, and technical assistance to federally recognized…

Focuses on the role of multiple literacies in the lives of Lakota and Dakota (Sioux) young adolescents who lived and attended school in a predominantly White, rural, upper Midwest community. Explores ways they constructed meaning through music, dance, and art. Finds the students explored and expressed their sense of identity and examined critical…

One of the many important aspects of the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project was that it set a precedent for what the U.S. and/or other nations can, and should do, when future cases of potential genocide arise. Far too often in the recent past, the international community (the United Nations, individual governments, many nongovernmental…

The author is a full-blood Saginaw Chippewa Indian tribal member who is trying to enter the world of academia late in life. He relates he has never been subjected to unfair treatment or criticism from others because of the color of his skin. He has taught part-time at the University of Texas College of Communications and last year at South Dakota…

American Indians residing on-reservation were interviewed regarding their substance use and treatment utilization. One-third had a current substance abuse problem. Predictors included gender, tribe, age, employment status, household income, and educational attainment. Almost two-thirds of those with substance abuse problems had received no…

This article reviews the prevalence of suicide and suicidal ideation among American Indian adolescents. Unique risk and protective factors, and historical trauma and associated symptoms, are explored in the context of American Indian adolescent suicide. The need for culturally-sensitive interventions are necessary, and an example of a…

Nebraska's Indian population exploded in the summer of 1898, but it was not due to natural increase. More than 500 Indians representing twenty-three tribes came to Omaha as part of the United States Indian Bureau's exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During their three-month stay at the world's fair, Indians engaged in dancing, feasting,…

This article is about bridge building: building cultural bridges of authentic collaboration between the university and the Navajo and Hopi nations; building curricular bridges between the White, European culture and the cultural worlds these nations seek to preserve; and building bridges between languages, the language of the…

In October 1991, a Congressional committee heard testimony on proposals to expand and extend the Tribal Self-Governance Demonstration Project. Originally authorized in 1988, the project allows participating tribes to negotiate the transfer of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) programs and services to the tribes through compacts of self-governance and…

Intended for teenage readers, this book profiles 13-year old Shannon Anderson. Shannon lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her grandmother, her two sisters, and two cousins. Shannon, who is an Ojibway Indian, practices the fancy shawl dance. This traditional dance requires the dancer to use fancy footwork and twirl a shawl. Shannon's younger…

Each spring when the ice clears, the Anishinabe (Chippewa) harvest fish from Wisconsin and Minnesota lakes. Their ancient subsistence fishing and hunting tradition is protected by treaties and reinforced by federal court rulings, but for years they were met by stones, racial epithets, and death threats hurled by local sports fishermen, resort and…