A wealth of literature shows positive outcomes and experiences from arts learning, yet youth access to arts education has become significantly more inequitable over the past 30 years. Alongside the growing discourse around arts learning and equity issues, there is a recognized and persistent need for more research. We conducted a critical,…

In the past few years, people have come to realize that family and child well-being are public health issues. Helping families and children be happy, healthy and resilient helps the larger community. This report will discuss various aspects of family life including the systems that exist to support them, ways families can have more positive…

Describes the development of a community education program for the urban Indian population of Phoenix. (DN)

Presented is the 5th annual report of the Arizona State Economic Opportunity Office (SEOO). The purpose of the report is to provide interested agencies, public officials, and the general public an overview of SEOO programs operating in Arizona. The report gives descriptions and purposes of these various programs and discusses grants received by…

Each semester, hundreds of children find themselves on the campus of a tribal college or university. While their parents are busy working toward that associate's or bachelor's degree, the children are getting their own dose of college life. From Ilisagvik College in Barrow, Alaska--the "northernmost accredited community college"--to…

Designed as a stimulus for American Indian educational development, these examples of community development programs among the Southwestern Indians are presented via the case study approach in the interest of analyzation of both positive and negative experiences. Specifically, this book presents case studies of: (1) the Round Rock School on the…

Presented is the 4th annual report of the Arizona State Economic Opportunity Office. The purpose of the report is to provide interested agencies, public officials, and the general public an overview of Office of Economic Opportunity programs operating in the State of Arizona. The report gives brief descriptions and purposes of the various…

As part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, Part I of this document depicts the demographic, socioeconomic, educational, and social aspects of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and community of Bylas. Part II places specific emphasis on recent history, economy, problems and new programs, and the…

Kiwanis Club members in Tucson, Arizona set up a 4-H poultry program for Yaqui Indian children; they are being followed by the Optimist Club. (EB)

Summarizing discussions held during the Second Annual Child Abuse/Neglect Conference (Houston, 1977), this paper presents the following: the historical background of the special legal relationship between the Federal and tribal governments; current tribal-state relations (emphasis on state jurisdiction, Bureau of Indian Affairs' services, and the…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this 1970 document deals with the community background of Tuba City, Arizona. The community background is described in terms of population, historical background, recreation, housing, economy, employment by the state and federal governments and by private employers,…

The report of the feasibility study for construction of a second high school in the Snowflake Union High School District includes discussions of student population data, educational factors, high cost factors for school operations, the educational planning process, and second high school plant facility needs. Based on outcomes of the feasibility…

The social and cultural distance between the schools serving American Indian children and their communities has been viewed as the source of many of the basic problems in Indian education. In 1968 the Hopi Indian Tribe of Arizona instituted a Follow Through Program to provide for such parental involvement in their schools' educational processes.…

The Black Mesa Community School, serving elementary school children in an isolated district of the Arizona Navajo reservation, represents the first step in Indian self-determination for area Navajos. The school is the result of community efforts begun in 1972 with a petition to operate a full-time school program for grades K-4 at Kitsilee.…

Rough Rock, Arizona, in the Navajo Reservation, is the first school to be run by a locally elected all-Indian school board and the first to incorporate systematic instruction in native language and culture. This demonstration program has led to changes in the community's social, economic, and political structures. Federal funding has both enabled…