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PDF pending restorationSchneider, William J.; And Others – 1972
As one phase of a research program designed for purposes of developing future youth programs and as one source from which hypotheses, relevant to the occupational and social adjustment of rural southwestern Indian youth (Navajo and Papago), were generated and later tested, this study presented a survey of literature concerned with the environment,…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1986
Three hearings held in Arizona, New Mexico, and South Dakota provide individual statements and panel presentations on problems, programs, and proposals for prevention, identification, treatment, and follow-up care of alcohol and drug abuse among American Indian juveniles. The majority of witnesses are members of Indian tribes in the three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, American Indian Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1987
Two hearings held on October 24, 1985, and April 29, 1986, produced testimony about two House bills on prevention and treatment of Indian juvenile alcoholism and drug abuse. These bills provide for (1) programs of instruction on alcohol and drug abuse in Indian schools in kindergarten through grade 12; (2) training about alcohol and drug abuse for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism
Owan, Tom Choken; And Others – 1987
This report describes school and community efforts to prevent alcoholism and substance abuse among American Indian and Alaskan Native youth. In 1986, the Indian Health Service (IHS) surveyed Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, public schools with large Indian enrollments, and community groups involved in 225 IHS-funded alcohol and substance abuse…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alaska Natives, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education
1974
A non-profit counseling and referral center, the Center was established in 1972 to alleviate delinquency problems in Los Lunas (New Mexico), with special reference to Chicanos. The Center used specific direct youth services to identify: barriers to services for Chicanos in Los Lunas and to provide referral services to overcome those barriers;…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Black Youth, Community Services
Forslund, Morris A.; Meyers, Ralph E. – 1972
The study was conducted in an effort to ascertain the magnitude and dimensions of the delinquency problem among the American Indian youths from the Wind River Reservation (Wyoming). During the summer of 1971 data were obtained from the records of the Court of Indian Offenses, the Tribal police, the juvenile officer on the reservation, the Riverton…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indians, Antisocial Behavior, Correctional Rehabilitation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1985
The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs met to receive testimony on a bill (S. 1298) to coordinate and expand services for the prevention, identification, and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse among Indian juveniles and a related bill (S. 1621) concerned with eligibility for attending Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools. Most testimony…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Adolescents, Alcohol Education, Alcoholism
Griffiths, Curt Taylor, Ed. – 1987
Northern youth increasingly find themselves in a state of crisis--separated from family and community for the purposes of further education, exposed to the temptations of alcohol and drug abuse and facing the prospect of underemployment, they often come into contact with the justice system at an early age. Fascinated by and indoctrinated with the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescent Development, Alcoholism, American Indian Education
