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  As long as the water flows: Indian Irrigation Projects

  Gail Offen

  In this red paper the author describes Indian irrigation projects based on internal studies by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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  Coal: Black death for Red Culture

  David Logsdon

  This is a Red Paper about coal mining in American Indian lands and its impact on water, soil, air quality, economy, natural environment, cultures, and development of tribes. The author makes an analysis of the damaging impact of strip mining, coal fired electricity, and coal gasification on the soil, underground water reserves, air, and the natural environment of Native American communities. The author also includes a critical analysis of the role of the U.S. Interior Department, the BIA, and the leasing treaties in tribal development programs to call for more participation of the Indian communities for protecting and managing natural resources in Indian lands.

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  Dealing with developers

  Charles Lipton

  This is a set of papers prepared by Charles Lipton International attorney to AIO explaining concessions and negotiations in mineral development, mining companies, investment, conditions, and preferences in setting contracts for mineral exploitation in developing countries and American Indian lands. There is also a description of government strategies and techniques for negotiating contracts and concessions for mineral extraction. An attached copy of a published article on Fiscal aspects of negotiating Third World mineral development agreements by the same author is included in this set.

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  Development priorities

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This is a to-do list of actions and strategies to get support and positive outcomes from their self-determination proposal

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  Hard Choices: Development of Non-Energy Non-Replenishable Resources

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This is an AIO report that summarizes the seminar on Development of non-energy non-replenishable resources in Native American territories. The purpose of the seminar was to examine the problems and questions involved in the development of non-fuel minerals via round tables that involved participants from energy tribes and non-fuel tribes to share information, establish policy, and inter-tribal communications through the Council of Energy Resource Tribes.

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  Introduction: The Firewater Myth: North American Indian drinking and alcohol addiction By Joy Leland

  LaDonna Harris

  This is a draft of the introduction to the published book "The Firewater Myth: American Indian drinking and alcohol addiction" by Joy Leland. It was prepared and written by LaDonna Harris.

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  The American Indian: Challenge and response

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This is a collection of drafts about American Indian Special-Interests Organizations, programs, and projects. These documents synthesize information about the National Indian organizations such as the Institute for Development of Indian Law, The National Congress of American Indians, The National Council on Indian Opportunity, The National Tribal Chairmen's Association, The American Indian Movement, Association on American Indian Affairs, and The Americans for Indian Opportunity. The Challenge: a detailed description of the American Indian today and the Response: Indian Organizations

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  Uranium

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This paper is about the world, U.S., the American Indian uranium supply, and the demand for this mineral. An analysis of the consequences of development or non-development that tribes must face and some of the decisions tribes must make to avoid exploitation is included.

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  Project Manager for Non-Stockpile chemical materiel

  LaDonna Harris

  This is a collection of memoranda and communications about conducting a series of discussions and focus groups between the U.S. Army and the Zuni and Navajo tribes concerning the clean-up of non-stockpile chemical material in a safe, environmentally, and cost effective manner in areas neighboring former U.S. Army posts, such as Fort Wingate located in the vicinity of both tribes.

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  Collective Design of the Tribal Future: Structural analysis of Vision Statements constructed by the people of the Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, Comanche, and Pawnee Tribes

  Benjamin J. Broom

  This paper reports on the results of recent design sessions conducted with several tribes in Oklahoma. During 1991 and 1992 the Americans for Indian Opportunities (AIO), a national Native American Organization concerned with Tribal Governance processes worked for Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity (OIO) to sponsor a series of four projects that included participative design sessions with the Apache, Cheyenne & Arapaho, and Pawnee Tribes of Oklahoma. The research methodology is described as participant centered, contextually embedded, dialogically based, integrated, and participant validated.

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  Excerpts from the Report for the Van Ameringen Foundation on AIO's Family System Project

  LaDonna Harris

  This synthesized report on AIO's Family Systems Project contains a background of research conducted by AIO on emotional dynamics in a tribe and the tribe's families; the power of Family Systems Analysis, an approach more in line with knowledge based on Family Systems Theory and Tribal Consensus-building systems; key issues and concepts in tribal dynamics; future steps; and appendixes on North American Tribal Kinship systems from the social origins of private life.

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  From Council Fires to Computers: Computer assisted consensus building within tribes between tribes and between tribal and non-tribal governments

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This is a concept paper on the development and training of an Indian Interactive Management team in Native American country presented to the Administration for Native Americans. In this paper it is explained how a computer assisted discussion process called Interactive Management (IM) can enable a group of people with highly contrastive perspectives to come together and solve problems because the IM values the differences in perspective and sees them as contributions.

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  Project proposal: A Tribal Family systems Consortium

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This proposal describes in detail a plan to study five Native American tribes by employing the family systems approach in identifying and understanding the patterns of health in Native American communities and in engaging tribal governments in addressing these patterns. Included in this proposal are LaDonna Harris' biographical information, CVs of some AIO's board members, tribal resolutions, letters, and other primary sources that supported this proposed study.

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  Barriers to the full participation of tribal governments in the U.S. Federal System: A Capitol Hill Symposium report

  LaDonna Harris

  This set of communications and correspondence concern a report of the AOI Symposium on 'Barriers to the full participation of Tribal Governments in the U.S. Federal System' held on Capitol Hill on June 29, 1987

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  Family Systems Project for the American Indian Health Service: Phase II

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This is a project to investigate the appropriateness of a family systems initiative in Native American communities. This project is based on the assumption that the epidemic levels of alcohol and substance abuse, suicide, and adult onset diabetes are all symptomatic of underlying stress caused by 500 years of unresolved cultural clash between tribal and Euro-American culture. Besides appendixes, drafts, and correspondence related to the project, a copy of a published Wingspread Report is attached to this document.

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  Dineh Cooperatives Incorporated: Investigating the Navajo Nation

  LaDonna Harris

  This is a booklet prepared for the Navajo tribe describing Dineh cooperatives, incorporated and its 12 major project areas as of May 1984. A brief summary at the beginning of each section is presented supplemented by additional materials for those who wish greater detail.

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  A project to establish linkages between the Department of Defense, Tribes, and Industry Defense Contractors to further Tribal development

  LaDonna Harris

  This is a copy of a proposal presented to the Administration for Native Americans by the AIO to contribute to the goals of strong tribal governments and the growth of strong and diversified tribal economies.

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  Tribal self-determination and self-sufficiency: A comprehensive strategy and proposed implementation

  LaDonna Harris

  This is a copy of a grant modification proposal presented to the Administration for Native Americans (HHS) for support of projects to strengthen tribal self-determination and self-sufficiency through stable and diversified tribal economies. A set of communications and memos exchanged between AIO and federal agencies, national Indian organizations, and the Executive Office of the President concerning Tribal self-governance and development are included in this set of documents.

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  A Guide to Incorporating environmental education into Indian Schools

  Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO)

  This red paper features fundamentals, suggested activities, and sources to get more information about how to implement environmental education on any scale, in an individual classroom, a school, or even an entire school district within American Indian schools.

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  Handbook to Federal Responsibility to Indian Communities in Areas of Environmental Protection and Individual Health and Safety

  LaDonna Harris and Maggie Gover

  This handbook summarizes AIO's research on the roles of government agencies charged with the responsibility for various aspects of environmental protection and individual safety. It is the purpose of this handbook to increase the awareness of Indian tribal decision makers of the environmental health impacts of development activities, the need in planning for protection from these impacts and where federal assistance could be obtained for such efforts.

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  Colonization of Indian Economy

  LaDonna Harris

  This is a paper presentation about the historical disadvantage of tribal economy in relation to Federal and non-Indian economic and business structure. It includes figures and graphs representing the multiplier effect of each dollar coming out the reservations that benefit external communities but not the tribal economy and development.

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  A Good Day to Live for One Million Indians

  Task Panel on American Indians and Alaska Natives President's Commission on Mental Health

  This is a report of the special populations subpanel on mental health of American Indian and Alaska Natives submitted to the President's Commission on mental health. This report was published by the Graphics Department at the Southwestern Polytechnic Institute.

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  Indians and the Environmental Protection Agency

  LaDonna Harris and Maggie Gover

  This is an AIO report of a meeting for New Mexico Tribal decision makers and representatives of the Dallas Regional EPA Office held at the Sheraton Old Town Inn in Albuquerque, NM on November 29, 1978.

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  Indians, The Energy Research and Development Administration: A look at common interests and concerns.

  LaDonna Harris and Maggie Gover

  This is a research report that describes the scope of [American] Indian resources, their effect on the national energy supply and the relationship that should exist between Indian nations and the Energy Research and Development Administration. There are areas of mutual interest as the tribes strive towards self-sufficiency and the Energy Research and Development Administration strives towards its goals of fulfilling the nation's energy needs and its share of the Federal trust responsibility to Indian Nations. The trust responsibility includes the duty to see that Indian rights are protected and developed in a way that is in the best interests of the beneficiaries of the trust, both culturally and economically.

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  A Violation of Trust: Federal Management of Indian Forest Lands

  Rich Nafziger

  This is a red paper about the importance of Indian timber for tribal development, the environment, and the development of the country. Management of Indian forests as a shared responsibility of Tribal and Federal governments and a proposal of change documents are included.