This brief directory lists 39 American Indian vocational rehabilitation services programs in 16 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. Each listed program contains tribal name, name of director,…

American Indian children arriving from the Indian reservation with their parents must learn a new language and new behavior patterns required by the school setting. They must also begin to learn about the workings and customs of the city and its people. (FF)

Descriptions of American Indian history in the making are presented--e.g., Sioux and Choctaw Indian dictionaries; and an all Indian rodeo held in San Francisco. (FF)

Anthropologists have tended to look at and describe those aspects of American Indian life in the Southwest which could be termed aboriginal to the neglect of the total picture of Indian life as it actually is. (FF)

Focusing on one aspect of the attitude of the rancher toward the Indian, this article examines the Journal called "The Cattleman" and concludes by drawing some general conclusions regarding the rancher-Indian relationship. (RTS)

A resolution submitted by the National Tribal Chairmen's Association declares only tribes have the right to determine tribal membership. The resolution results from an emergency meeting of the tribes to review the six federal options of defining "Indian" for eligibility to receive educational services. (ERB)

United Southern and Eastern Tribes (USET) mental health programs in six eastern states help Indian people with mental health, alcoholism, suicide prevention, and child, drug, or substance abuse problems. Available from White Cloud Center, Gaines Hall, Univ. of Oregon Health Services Center, 840 S. W. Gaines Road, Portland, Oregon 97201; $12…

Twin nuclear power plants have been proposed for construction one mile from the traditional salmon fishing grounds of the Upper Skagit Indians. Article describes two years of successful legal efforts that have so far blocked licensing and construction of the facilities. (DS)

Suggests that female status in an important cause of divorce in tribal societies. Findings of the study and of income maintenance experiments also indicate a dilemma for American gains in women's liberation may be losses for family stability. Sociological and anthropological literature is also reviewed. (Author/BEF)

Noting Indian tribes had invented ways to record facts and ideas, with graphic symbols that sometimes reached the complexity of hieroglyphs, this article illustrates and describes Indian symbols. (Author/RTS)

It was the unequivocal intent on the part of both Indians and whites at the treaty-signing that the reservations were to be residential bases from which the Indians were to continue to utilize the total environment, including specifically all of their fishing locations, in order to maintain themselves. (Author)

In an attempt to dispell the belief that the Iroquois were all powerful at the time of the European invasion of America, this article details the valor of the Lenni Lenape and describes tribal circumstances contributing to the Iroquois power base. (JC)

A connection with nature constitutes the difference between Western science and indigenous perspectives of the natural world. Understanding the synchronicity of natural and astronomical cycles is integral to Anishinaabe cosmology. Examples show how the Anishinaabe cultural worldview and philosophy are reflected in their celestial knowledge and how…

Argues that "indigenous" people transferring cultural information to other, more "developed" people should have legal protection from unfair transactions. Presents ethical and legal bases for such protection. Examples involve the knowledge of rain-forest tribes that has been used to produce valuable pharmaceutical products from…