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Americans For Indian Opportunity Red Alert (1975-1981), Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1981

Americans For Indian Opportunity Red Alert (1975-1981), Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains AIO’s red alert communications and publications for the period of 1975-1981. Included in this file are news about American Indian Education, increasing general revenue sharing funds to Native American Governments, a copy of a red paper entitled Protection of Native American Energy Resources, support to President Carter’s evaluation of water projects, a petition to urge President Carter to set up an Office of Indian Energy within the Federal Energy Administration, Delegation of authority relating to lands and minerals to the Albuquerque area director by the commissioner of Indian Affairs, updating of the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s membership, …


Joe Sando, Joe Sando, Albert Schroeder Jan 1981

Joe Sando, Joe Sando, Albert Schroeder

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a manuscript entitled “A Pueblo Indian Invasion of Europe-1981” and a published article on the Jemez Pueblo by Joe Sando. A Copy of a published article entitled ‘The Pecos Pueblo’ by Albert Schroeder is also attached here.


Review Of Native American Projects Conducted During The Past Decade: Their Findings, Implications, And Applications, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1981

Review Of Native American Projects Conducted During The Past Decade: Their Findings, Implications, And Applications, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence, copies of contracts, sub-contracts, funding requests, invoices, and copies of summaries for the proposed American Projects Conducted During the Past Decade: Their findings, implications, and applications during the period 1979-1981. The purpose of this project is to collect, abstract, and analyze completed research and work-in-progress subsidized and/or conducted by Native American groups, government agencies, academic institutions, private foundations, and other sources for creating a computerized data base that will be accessible to Native American groups, government agencies, and researchers.


Handbook To Federal Responsibility To Indian Communities In Areas Of Environmental Protection And Individual Health And Safety, Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover Jan 1981

Handbook To Federal Responsibility To Indian Communities In Areas Of Environmental Protection And Individual Health And Safety, Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

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.


New Federalism: The Role Of The Indian Community, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1981

New Federalism: The Role Of The Indian Community, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of the New Federalism: The role of the Indian Community with President Reagan’s views and proposed policies and a copy of New Federalism and Trust Responsibility to Indian Tribes by AIO. The purpose of this paper is to examine how federal-Tribal relationship might be affected by the New Federalism. Included in this set are copies of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes resolutions, news clips, the President Reagan’s remarks on the National Association of Counties, remarks by Roy Sampsel Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, amendments, a bill to authorize the state and the Indian tribes …


Arizona Snow Bowl, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1980

Arizona Snow Bowl, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This a copy of a memo addressed to LaDonna Harris concerning the Arizona Snow Bowl expansion and the appeal processes to follow.


Uranium Development In The San Juan Basin Region, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1980

Uranium Development In The San Juan Basin Region, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a second draft on the comments to the Draft Report on Environmental issues Uranium Development in the San Juan Basin Region of the San Juan Basin Regional Uranium Study prepared by Americans for Indian Opportunity on January 8, 1980.


Messing With Mother Nature Can Be Hazardous To Your Health, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1980

Messing With Mother Nature Can Be Hazardous To Your Health, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains published reports on AIO’s first regional seminar for tribal decision-makers on the environmental health impacts of development on Native American communities and the roles of government agencies charged with the responsibilities for various aspects of environmental protection and individual safety. Sample publications include Milwaukee, Billings, Sacramento, Seattle, and a final report gathering the contributions of over 25 tribes and 8 federal agencies who attended this meeting on October 15-17 1980. Included in this file are correspondence between LaDonna Harris and federal government officials and a work plan.


Indians In The Next Decade, Ladonna Harris Jan 1980

Indians In The Next Decade, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a transcript of ‘Indians in the Next Decade Meeting’ to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Americans for Indian Opportunity and provide a forum to share ideas about where Indian country is going in the 1980s decade.


Indians And The Environmental Protection Agency (1980), Marianna Ray, Ladonna Harris Jan 1980

Indians And The Environmental Protection Agency (1980), Marianna Ray, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a report of a meeting for Montana Tribal decision makers and representatives from the Montana EPA Office. This meeting was sponsored by Americans for Indian Opportunity held in Billings, Montana on May 13 and 14, 1980 where mutual environment concerns were discussed.


Fort Sill Indian School, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1980

Fort Sill Indian School, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a special notice requesting the Senate Budget Committee to support and keep Fort Sill School in Lawton, Oklahoma open.


You Don’T Have To Be Poor To Be Indian, Maggie Gover Jan 1980

You Don’T Have To Be Poor To Be Indian, Maggie Gover

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of loose chapters of Maggie Gover’s book “You don’t have to be poor to be Indian”. In the introduction, the author states that this document is not intended to be a how-to-do-it manual for economic development. It is intended to be a discussion of problems that tribal decision-makers must deal with, to supply information that may be useful in making future decisions, and hopefully, to suggest some options or new ideas for Indian control of Indian resource development.


Indian Tribes Are Separate Government Units, Ladonna Harris Jan 1979

Indian Tribes Are Separate Government Units, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This AIO red paper entitled ‘Tribes are separate government units’ outlines the discussion on the status of American tribes recognized by the Federal government and American laws as separate governmental units, distinct from the states in which their reservations may lie.


The Realities Of Reclamation, Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover Jan 1979

The Realities Of Reclamation, Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a proposal to provide information and expertise to Indian Nations on the Realities of Reclamation submitted by Americans for Indian Opportunity. AIO proposes to sponsor a conference for the tribes impacted by strip-mining and bring in experts on reclamation to present information to the tribal leaders as to what the options are in the reclamation process.


Colonization Of Indian Economy, Ladonna Harris Jan 1979

Colonization Of Indian Economy, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

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 of the reservations that benefit external communities but not the tribal economy and development.


New Mexico Indian Environmental Education Project, The New Mexico Indian Environmental Education Project Jan 1979

New Mexico Indian Environmental Education Project, The New Mexico Indian Environmental Education Project

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains the New Mexico Indian Environmental Education Project description, goals, objectives, workshops, registration forms, and a reply to LaDonna Harris sent on February 27, 1979.


Indians And The Environmental Protection Agency (1978), Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover Jan 1978

Indians And The Environmental Protection Agency (1978), Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is an Americans for Indian Opportunity (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.


A Good Day To Live For One Million Indians, Task Panel On American Indians And Alaska Natives President's Commission On Mental Health Jan 1978

A Good Day To Live For One Million Indians, Task Panel On American Indians And Alaska Natives President's Commission On Mental Health

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

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.


Indian Child Welfare Act Of 1978, Author Unknown Jan 1978

Indian Child Welfare Act Of 1978, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a copy of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 including questions and answers which highlight provisions of the Act and its impact on services to American Indian children and their families. Letters and memoranda of the Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Social Workers, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the National Congress of American Indians concerning suggestions for the development of the rules and regulations for the Indian Child Welfare Act, a draft rules and regulations on the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, a copy of …


American Indian Law Student Association, Ailsa Jan 1978

American Indian Law Student Association, Ailsa

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of the statutes of The American Indian Law Students Association (AILSA) at the University of New Mexico School of Law, a manuscript of the AILSA publication entitled 'Indian Notes on the Status of the President’s reorganization project' dated February 8 1978, and a copy of the AILSA report published on September 20, 1971.


Training And Technical Assistance In Indian Control Of Economic Resource Development, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1977

Training And Technical Assistance In Indian Control Of Economic Resource Development, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of the application for technical assistance and a proposal to introduce participants (3 to 5 tribes) to problems and solutions faced and developed by other tribes, non-federal units of government, and corporations within the United States, as well as developing countries throughout the world, and teach participants to apply that information to their resource development needs.


Wounded Knee Legal Committee, Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee Jan 1977

Wounded Knee Legal Committee, Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a collection of communications and copies of the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee Newsletters. Relevant topics include a letter to President Carter requesting to stop police brutality against Native American people in South Dakota, paper clippings and newsletter articles concern A.G. William Janklow, Dennis Banks’ extradition, St. Paul Trial Report, Sioux Falls Report, South Dakota’s Dual Justice Prevails, Wounded knee trials continue to try the government, Irrational Custer prosecutions continues in Sioux Falls, Government ‘Fabrication’ against the leaders, The military defense in Lincoln, and Victories.


Indians, The Energy Research And Development Administration: A Look At Common Interests And Concerns., Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover Jan 1977

Indians, The Energy Research And Development Administration: A Look At Common Interests And Concerns., Ladonna Harris, Maggie Gover

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

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 …


Decisions, Decisions: Indian Control Of Indian Resources, Maggie Grover Jan 1976

Decisions, Decisions: Indian Control Of Indian Resources, Maggie Grover

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a set of papers based on a series of seminars and research conducted by Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) for Indian tribal decision makers articulates the problems that tribal decision makers must deal with, to supply information that may be useful in making future decisions concerning Indian control on Indian resource development.


Indian Tribes As Developing Nations, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1976

Indian Tribes As Developing Nations, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a report from training sessions held at the Johnson Foundation's Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin September 21-23, 1975 for tribal decision-makers from the Great Lakes Area.


A Violation Of Trust: Federal Management Of Indian Forest Lands, Rich Nafziger Jan 1976

A Violation Of Trust: Federal Management Of Indian Forest Lands, Rich Nafziger

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

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.


Getting A Fair Deal In Mining Projects, Stephen Zorn Jan 1976

Getting A Fair Deal In Mining Projects, Stephen Zorn

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This paper summarizes a number of different ways in which resource owners, including both Native American tribes and developing country governments can obtain a fair share of the value of these resources when they are exploited.


American Indian Movement, American Indian Movement Jan 1975

American Indian Movement, American Indian Movement

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of a letter from the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) requesting donations and financial support to continue working on their projects, an attachment of the objectives of the A.I.M., communications, and newspaper clippings underscoring Dough Durhnam and other news related to Native Americans.


A Question Of Power: Indian Control Of Indian Resource Development, Ladonna Harris Jan 1975

A Question Of Power: Indian Control Of Indian Resource Development, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file summarizes information about the Conference sessions on Indian Control and Indian Resource Development held at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, September 21-22-23, 1975. This conference is one of a series designed to explore the options available to tribes as owners of natural resources; consider ways to make existing government programs work for the tribes; recommend changes to existing policies where necessary, learn how to deal with developers, explore new sources of capital, and examine structures for internal decision-making.


Native American Studies At Unm, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1975

Native American Studies At Unm, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

The concept, goals, statistics, and achievements of the Native American Studies Program at UNM College of Engineering are briefly presented in this file. Some additional information and communications are attached.