The manner in which the traditional way of life and the traditional rituals of the Zaramo of Tanzania affect the personality development of Zaramo children and individuals in general was the focus of this preliminary study for an envisioned longitudinal program of research. Data was gathered during 1970 and 1974 in a typical traditional rural…

To facilitate awareness in Indian child services by identifying perennial needs and pointing out developing responses at as many levels as possible the conference was divided into five major sections. Each workshop summary includes names of presenters, purpose of workshop, major points made during workshop, and available materials and human…

Funded by the Women's Educational Equity Act Programs, the Minneapolis Public Schools Indian Education Section on October 1, 1981, began a study to assess the present level of enrollment and performance of Minnesota Indian girls in junior and senior high school mathematics courses. Procedures in conducting the study included: identifying 7 to 10…

The report discusses the participation of elderly American Indians in Federal entitlement programs and describes the Reservation Access Project, which was funded to increase by 100% the number of Indian elderly served and to develop a model for delivery services. The first section provides an introduction, organizational history of the National…

Through cooperative efforts of state and federal officials and with concerned California Indians, State program delivery systems are constantly being monitored, evaluated, and adjusted to assure increasingly fair services for California Indians. The report divides State services into five general categories: cultural preservation; educational…

In an effort to identify some of the positive accomplishments resulting from President Reagan's American Indian Policy statement on January 24, 1983, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services initiated an interdepartmental information exchange composed of federal and Indian tribal accomplishments made in…

An annotated, selective list of reading materials for children and instructional aids for parents, teachers, and librarians is presented in this digest. The 24 entries, many written by American Indians, are drawn from a variety of sources and deal with tribes from several regions. Many of the materials are intended to help American Indian children…

Presenting 250 abstracted entries and an additional 250 citations, this bibliography on American Indian mental health is derived from: personal collections; other bibliographies; dissertations, government documents; and five computerized bibliographic data banks. Included in this document are: (1) a user's guide to the bibliography; (2) a tribe…

The pressure of removal of all Indians from the eastern states and territories to the undeveloped West caused the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes to re-frame their basic institutions, including their governments, in an attempt to conform with Anglo American ideas of what was "civilized". Both the Choctaws and Cherokees established…

A brief overview of the status of language use in Native American communities reveals that while approximately 206 different languages and language dialects persist today, an estimated 49 languages have fewer than 10 speakers aged 50 or over, while 6 of these languages have more than 10,000 speakers of all generations. That these languages persist…

The Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Project of the Indian Health Service was designed to identify existing cases of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome among the American Indian tribes (Navajo, Apache, Ute and 19 Pueblo Tribes) in the Southwest, establish a referral system to identify these children for treatment, estimate the prevalence of the problem, and work…

During the fall of 1980, 83 students at Nebraska Indian Community College (Macy Campus) completed a survey to identify the key behaviors of community college instructors that demotivate American Indian community college students. Students were given a questionnaire, developed by Dr. James O. Hammons (University of Arkansas), listing 32 items that…

In 1980 the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Portland Area Office served 43,500 Indians of 33 federally recognized tribes, bands, and groups living on or near 4 million acres of reservation land in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Highlights of the fiscal 1980 BIA/tribal partnership included the joint review of overall Office operations and…

In collaboration with native speakers, linguists at Mary College in 1973 established the North Dakota Indian Language Studies Program, which has provided native language instruction in three reservation elementary schools, prepared teaching and learning materials, and trained teachers in native language pedagogy. The program was initiated to…

Problems in the administration and management of Indian affairs were identified in two hearings held during the summer of 1977. The July 13 meeting featured non-governmental witnesses; much of the discussion focused on findings of a management study of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) initiated by the American Indian Policy Review Commission.…