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Self-Determination, Author Unknown Jan 1996

Self-Determination, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

U.S. Congressional records of the 100th Congress 1st session of September 16, 1987 on the acknowledgement and reaffirmation of the government to government relationship with Native American Indian Tribes, a copy of a conference paper entitled ‘Indian Self-determination the Ideal and Indian Self-Governance the Reality’ by Joseph De La Cruz President of the Quinault Indian Nation, a manuscript of an article entitled ‘Native American Organizers” by Helena Nyerges, a speech by Reuben A. Snake Jr. Tribal Chairman of Winnebago Tribe entitled ‘Toward effective, stable tribal government’ and clippings on Self-Determination and Indigenous rights are included in this file.


Sports Mascots, Author Unknown Jan 1996

Sports Mascots, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence and attachments concerning protests against Pro-Football teams’ names and college sports mascots using American Indian names in a derogatory, racist, and disrespectful way.


Indiannet Reports For Epa And Other Systems Corporations, Indiannet Jan 1996

Indiannet Reports For Epa And Other Systems Corporations, Indiannet

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of final and quarterly reports on contracts and agreements that INDIANnet submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and The Apple Corporation. These reports provide information about accomplishments and contributions of INDIANnet, fulfillment of contracts and agreements with federal agencies, systems improvements, data, new users, publicity about INDIANnet and AIO, new or on-going initiatives, barriers and solutions as well as future plans.


Project Manager For Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Ladonna Harris Jan 1995

Project Manager For Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

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.


Indigenous Leaders Of America – Fomento Y Capacitación Del Liderazgo Indígena En América, Jose Matos Mar Jan 1995

Indigenous Leaders Of America – Fomento Y Capacitación Del Liderazgo Indígena En América, Jose Matos Mar

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a proposal faxed to LaDonna Harris and AIO for starting a program in the ethno-development of the Indigenous peoples of all America. Because this proposal was originated in Mexico City, the content of this proposal is written in Spanish.


What Is Indiannet? Information Systems, Indiannet Jan 1995

What Is Indiannet? Information Systems, Indiannet

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a set of draft images along with a brief definition and goals of INDIANnet.


Religion In American Indian Communities, Author Unknown Jan 1995

Religion In American Indian Communities, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains newspaper clippings on Catholicism and American Indians, the Methodist church conflict with Native American rites, Indians lift up traditions offer reconciliation, Symbols and Bravura by American Indians, and the banishment of a religious leader in Cochiti Pueblo.


Indian Gaming, Ladonna Harris Jan 1994

Indian Gaming, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence, testimonies, senators’ statements, Senate hearings, resolutions, drafts of amendments and checklists, reports, copies of congressional record-senate, a bill, and communications between LaDonna Harris President of the Americans for Indian Opportunity and members of the U.S. Senate, tribal leaders, and the President of the United States regarding the Native American gaming legislation and Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Amendments.


Americans For Indian Opportunity – Indiannet, Ladonna Harris, Judy Kane, Indiannet Jan 1994

Americans For Indian Opportunity – Indiannet, Ladonna Harris, Judy Kane, Indiannet

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a grant application to fund the second phase of INDIANnet, the first national Indian-owned computer network to provide information useful to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Copies of published INDIANnet Newsletters, news clippings, and drafts of the grant are also included.


Indiannet Telecommunications Network Project, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1994

Indiannet Telecommunications Network Project, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains plans, budgets, a TIIAP Planning Grant and a timetable prepared by UNM Native American Studies. AIO's correspondence with sponsors and the New Mexico State Senate, the UNM Board of Regents, news clippings, drafts of reports, discussions, meetings, and grants to promote equity of access to Native American Communities are included.


New Mexico Commission On The Status Of Women 1992-1994, Nm Commission On The Status Of Women Jan 1994

New Mexico Commission On The Status Of Women 1992-1994, Nm Commission On The Status Of Women

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence of New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women with U.S senators and other organizations to support the Women’s telecommunications Project. Attachments include copies of the proposal, comments by Prof. Robin Douthitt from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, remarks by Camille Haney, president of the Haney Group and copies of News releases, flyers, announcements, and communications.


Indiannet 1991-94, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1994

Indiannet 1991-94, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a progress report about the development of INDIANnet for the 1991-1994 period. INDIANnet, Inc., a telecommunications network for tribal communities aimed to provide accurate and timely information on and for tribes. In a true public-private partnership, INDIANnet was developed with interested tribes and several federal agencies.


Tribal Economic Flows: The Economic Contribution Of Native Americans To The New Mexico State Economy, Ladonna Harris Jan 1993

Tribal Economic Flows: The Economic Contribution Of Native Americans To The New Mexico State Economy, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence, drafts and notes on the Tribal Economic Flows project (continued). Included are survey instruments and drafts of The New Mexico Tribal Economic Profile Summary Project developed with the assistance of the Ford Foundation to gather data covering tribally owned businesses, tribal natural resources, development, culture, and tourism to illustrate the significance of Tribal economies to the State economy.


Tribal Economic Flows (Continued), Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm Barc Jan 1993

Tribal Economic Flows (Continued), Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm Barc

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains proposal drafts with annotations, correspondence, and communications with New Mexico State government officials, UNM partners, Indian Affairs, and tribal leaders concerning the Rural Economies: The Contributions of Tribal Economies to local, state, and regional economies project.


Business Realities In Indian Country: A Brief Introduction For Corporate America, Alan Parker Jan 1993

Business Realities In Indian Country: A Brief Introduction For Corporate America, Alan Parker

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

In this booklet the author discusses the characteristics which distinguish the business environment on most Native American reservations to identify relative advantages and disadvantages for the purpose of dispelling possible confusion or misperceptions.


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 Jan 1993

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

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This paper reports on the results of recent design sessions conducted with several tribes in Oklahoma. During 1991 and 1992 the Americans for Indian Opportunity (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.


The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico, Alfred L. Parker, Unm Jan 1993

The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico, Alfred L. Parker, Unm

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This study examines the economic relationship of New Mexico Indians to the state’s economy with the purpose of developing facts that will help to define that relationship. The discussion and analysis presented in this report is based primarily on information collected from survey documents distributed to New Mexico State agencies and survey documents distributed to a number of New Mexico Indian tribes and pueblos in late 1992 and early 1993.


The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico – Draft, Alfred L. Parker, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm Jan 1993

The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico – Draft, Alfred L. Parker, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a draft of The Economic and Fiscal Importance of American Indians in New Mexico: A research report prepared by Alfred L. Parker, Professor of Economics-University of New Mexico in cooperation with Americans for Indian Opportunity and the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs.


The Wounded Knee, Tiyospaye Crisis Center-National Park Service Jan 1993

The Wounded Knee, Tiyospaye Crisis Center-National Park Service

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence from the Tiyospaye Crisis Center in Denver, Colorado to the Wounded Knee tribe in South Dakota concerning a proposal to build the Sacred Hoop Wounded Knee Community Center and Historic Site. A copy of a brief proposal, congressional records, and a printed version of the draft study of alternatives and environmental assessments of the Wounded Knee are included.


Ada Deer, Ladonna Harris Jan 1992

Ada Deer, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains La Donna Harris and AIO’s correspondence concerning Ada Deer’s campaign for congress and newspaper clippings on Bert DeLeeuw’s murder, Ada Deer’s campaign, fund raiser and her campaign rivals.


Native American Religious Freedom Project, Ladonna Harris Jan 1992

Native American Religious Freedom Project, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence between Americans for Indian Opportunity and funding organizations regarding the Native American Religious Freedom Project.


This Is What We Want To Share: Core Cultural Values, Ladonna Harris, Jacqueline Wasilewski Jan 1992

This Is What We Want To Share: Core Cultural Values, Ladonna Harris, Jacqueline Wasilewski

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a draft of AIO’s Contemporary Tribal Governance Series publication on Native American values. This draft entitled ‘This is what we want to share: Core Cultural Values’ by la Donna Harris in collaboration with Jacqueline Wasilewski is dated August, 1992. This manuscript addressed to tribal leader aims to provide the occasion for collective reflection, assist native peoples in differentiating themselves out of their collective mess, enable Native Americans to realize that in the dynamic world in which they live, even when they fix their present mess, it will not stay fixed, and enable native Americans out of their five …


Assessing Expectations For The Government To Government Relationship, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1992

Assessing Expectations For The Government To Government Relationship, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of the Assessing expectations for government to government relationship: Results of a national survey conducted by Americans for Indian Opportunity. Attached to this survey results are copies of USDA senior executive Service candidate development program: Individual Program of Study-Proposal for Action by David Mackenzie, a draft of a Statement of policy: Policy on American Indians and Alaska Natives by the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, and an abbreviated individual study plan proposal for action by Christine Pytel from the USDA-Forest Service


Repatriation: Culture Recaptured, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1992

Repatriation: Culture Recaptured, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of AIO’s Repatriation project proposal submitted to the Pew Charitable Trusts in 1992. Repatriation: Culture recaptured is a two-pronged multi-year national education program to be undertaken in a true public-private partnership, forming alliances with several Federal agencies, national professional societies, museums, universities, and Native Americans. The goal of this partnership program will be to produce a comprehensive knowledge base concerning the unique cultures of native peoples. This information can be used to maintain and strengthen living traditions within native communities. Furthermore, these programs will engage the academic and museum communities in establishing a dialog with members …


Tribal Economic Flows, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1992

Tribal Economic Flows, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence and communications between AIO and federal funding agencies, as well as state government, tribal leaders, and the University of New Mexico researchers to support the study and development of a model for tracking and analyzing tribal economic contributions to local, state, and regional economies. Copies of a grant proposal to The Ford Foundation with appendices and papers on culturally-sensitive aspects of AIO’s Tribal Issue Management Process by AIO, and The Wisdom of the people: A sharing and nurturing of Tribal Spirit by LaDonna Harris are included.


Movies, Ladonna Harris Jan 1992

Movies, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains AIO and LaDonna Harris’ correspondence related to the promotion of the film ‘The Pow-Wow Highway’. Some newspaper clippings about the misrepresentation and romanticized depiction of Native American cultures in movies such as Dances with wolves, Thunderheart, and Pocahontas are included in this file.


Tribal Economic Flows: The Contributions Of Tribal Economies To Local, State, And Regional Economies, Ladonna Harris, Unm Barc Jan 1992

Tribal Economic Flows: The Contributions Of Tribal Economies To Local, State, And Regional Economies, Ladonna Harris, Unm Barc

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a grant entitled ‘Towards an understanding of rural economies: The contributions of tribal economies to local, state, and regional economies’, a proposal submitted to the Economic Development Administration United States Department of Commerce by the Business Assistance and Resource Center at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Correspondence and communications with funding agencies and collaborators are included.


National Indian Information Center: Concept Paper, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1992

National Indian Information Center: Concept Paper, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a concept paper to pilot a Non-profit Census Information Center together with American Indians, Eskimo, and Aleuts as the lead agency of a three-member consortium of Washington-based American non-profit organizations. Attached to this paper are communications and briefing papers.


The Comanche Code Talkers Of World War Ii, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1992

The Comanche Code Talkers Of World War Ii, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains abstracts, correspondence between American for Indian Opportunity and the Secretary of Defense, newspaper clippings, and pictures of celebrations honoring the Comanche Code Talkers of World War II.


American Indian Business, Author Unknown Jan 1992

American Indian Business, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of a bi-monthly report on small business owners by the National Economic Development Association (NEDA) stressing the economic support for minority and Native American businesses in New Mexico, a copy of the Proposal to support Metallurgical Coke from Native American Owned Coal, a copy of Minority Business Today issue 1-March 1982, a copy of the newsletter of the Development Agency, a report by the Native American employment coalition, a copy of the printed guide: Indian Country USA travel planner, letters and advertisements related to Native American Business Services, and News on Native American businesses.