scholarly journals Partnering with a Native American Community in a Collaboration between a Tribal College and Two Mainstream Universities

2014 ◽  
pp. 460-474
Author(s):  
Joanita M Kant ◽  
C Jason Tinant ◽  
Suzette R Burckhard ◽  
J Foster Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tribal College ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
What Works ◽  
Community Outcomes

We present community outcomes in our unique pre-engineering program, along with lessons learned when a tribal college and community partners collaborate with two mainstream universities in experiential learning on a Native American reservation in the United States. We share our expertise so that others may apply elsewhere what we have learned. We provide guidance through sharing our successes, best practices, challenges, case studies, and hopes for the future. We recognize that every reservation is unique, and what works for one may not work for others. Community outcomes include significant capacity building where partners assemble evidence-based research that strengthens the tribal college and tribal government, allowing them to better manage resources. The OSSPEEC program includes undergraduate, graduate and faculty researchers in water resources, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geology, surveying, structures, and cross-disciplinary endeavors. Community partners include tribal governmental agencies, reservation-based interest groups, and non-profit organizations. The program is sustainable because the tribal college builds a variety of lasting partnerships offering mutual benefits.

A Qualitative Study of Native American Higher Education and Student Resiliency

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Peralez
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Role Models ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tribal College ◽  
Tribal Colleges ◽  
Native American Culture ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students

This chapter explores the degree to which Native American culture impacts the resiliency of Native American students earning degrees at three tribal colleges in the southwestern part of the United States. This is a qualitative case study that was based on the following research question: “How does Native American culture contribute to the resiliency of Native American students who are earning a degree at a tribal college?” This chapter focuses on the concerns of Native American students, and the cultural events they may have encountered during their educational journey. The research data were collected from interviews of 18 Native American students who were in their last year of college. Themes surrounding culture, resiliency, tribal colleges, academics, and Native American role models were discovered and used to determine the impact Native American culture has on the resiliency of Native American students.

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska: The Process of Restoration of a Federally Terminated Tribe

1992 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Grobsmith ◽  
Beth Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Government Data

The Northern Ponca, a small Plains farming and hunting tribe were legislatively terminated as a federally recognized tribe in 1962. Less than a decade after their termination, they reorganized in an attempt to reverse this decision, and proceeded with legal action to restore their status as a federally recognized tribe. During the 30-year period during which their federal status was lost, their population dispersed, their economic status, health, and general welfare declined, and their ability to practice their culture diminished. This article documents their efforts to restore their federally recognized tribal status, which would enable them to resume eligibility for services to which other Native American tribes are entitled. Following a review of aboriginal Ponca culture and the history of their relations with the United States government, data on the contemporary Northern Ponca are presented. The complex process of achieving restoration is outlined, from the formation of a non-profit tribal corporation to the development of the Ponca Restoration Act. The authors have served, as consultants to and witnesses for the tribe and assisted in preparation of materials for use by the federal government. The Ponca Restoration Act was signed by President Bush on October 31, 1990.

Civic leadership, emotions and social change: decolonial ethnographic research on an American Indian non-profit organisation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Jimenez-Luque ◽  
Melissa Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Civic Leadership ◽  
American Society

The non-profit sector in the United States (US) plays a key role in reproducing racism and classism. These two systems of oppression within non-profits mirror colonialism since their agendas and decisions about their implementation are made by elites rather than by people directly affected by the issues at hand. Through a case study of a Native American non-profit organisation in the north-west of the US, this article explores how emotions, particularly the processes through which people regulate emotions, can be used as resources for social change. Drawing on decolonial theory and combining critical non-profit and leadership studies, the research included observations, the gathering of artefacts and 13 interviews/conversations with individuals and groups. This article offers leadership strategies and actions for decolonising structures of the non-profit sector using emotions as assets for meaning-making, communication and resistance. Two central findings emerge: (a) emotions can change the dominant script; and (b) emotions can be used to resist, raise voices and contribute to social change. These findings bring new perspectives and nuances to better understand public leadership within postcolonial societies and are especially relevant for non-profit organisations led by marginalised social groups that have initiated collective struggles of social change to decolonise American society.

Conclusion: From the Edges Toward the Middle

2019 ◽  
pp. 509-510
Author(s):  
J. Lloyd Michener ◽  
Brian C. Castrucci ◽  
Don W. Bradley ◽  
Craig W. Thomas ◽  
Edward L. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Future

This chapter concludes the book and looks to the future. The teams and partnerships for health are clearly underway across the United States. From this point on, health care professionals and other agencies will all need to incorporate lessons learned and practices adopted into training programs, for all the health and related disciplines. Rather than learn what makes a difference in health, the aim should be to discover and then teach what makes a difference for some, and what works better for others. Training would be best carried out in teams, so the skills of teamwork and partnership are not just ideas, but practiced skills. The chapter concludes with this thought: health is something we can achieve together, but that no person or group can achieve alone.

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Peyote Effect ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Indian Agents ◽  
The U.S

Histories of peyotism in the United States tend to treat it as deeply rooted and universally embraced in indigenous communities. This chapter reminds us that this was not always the case. During its period of rapid growth, from around 1910 to 1940, peyotism was an evangelical religion in most Native American communities and was met with a great deal of resistance. The peyotists were often young men with ties outside of the community, and their practices challenged traditional hierarchies, traditional practices, and older power-brokers in their communities. In some cases, those who opposed peyotism in Native American communities adopted the same language as the missionaries and the Indian Agents in decrying the spread of peyotism, and in at least one case, (on the Navajo reservation in 1940), this prompted the tribal government to ban peyote on the reservation. The ban passed even with the opposition of the U.S. government, which by 1940 supported the rights of peyotists to practice their religion.

Indian Gaming

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
The United States ◽  
Casino Gambling ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Indian Gaming ◽  
Tribal Government ◽  
Casino Gaming ◽  
The Us ◽  
Tribal Gaming

Indian gaming, also called Native American casino gaming or tribal gaming, is tribal government gaming. It is government gaming built on sovereignty and consequently is a corollary to state gambling such as lotteries rather than a corollary to corporate gaming. While the types of games offered in casinos might differ in format from ancestral indigenous games, gaming itself is a cultural tradition in many tribes, including those who operate casino gambling. Native American casino gaming is a $33.7 billion industry operated by nearly 250 distinct tribes in twenty-nine states in the United States. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988 provides the framework for tribal gaming and the most important case law in Indian gaming remains Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Butterworth, in the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the US Supreme Court decision over California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.

Successful strategies and lessons learned from development of large-scale partnerships of national non-gowernmental organisations

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 131-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Potts-Datema ◽  
Becky J. Smith ◽  
Howard Taras ◽  
Theresa C. Lewallen ◽  
James F. Bogden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Health ◽  
National Level ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Outcomes For Children

National governments worldwide work to improve education and health outcomes for children and youth and influence their behaviours. Also heavily engaged are national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the voluntary and non-profit sector. While individual agencies and non-profit organisations are often concerned with specific issues of interest related to their charge, constituency or membership, they often develop allegiances with like-minded groups to accomplish broader goals. Two such collaborations in the United States are the focus of this discussion, the National Co-ordinating Committee on School Health and Safety (NCCSHS) and the Friends of School Health (hereafter, "the Friends"). This article reviews these two significant partnerships of public health and education NGOs and outlines successful strategies and lessons learned from the development of these large-scale partnerships. NCCSHS is a collaboration of 64 NGOs and six U.S. government departments representing both the fields of public health and education. Nearly all major NGOs working in fields related to school health are represented, and the six primary governmental agencies all have at least some responsibility for students' health and safety. The group is the primary intersection of NGOs and the Federal government related to school health at the national level. The Friends of School Health ("the Friends") is the primary school health advocacy coalition at the national level in the United States. Sixty-one education and public health NGOs participate. The coalition serves as a communication mechanism and venue for collaborative action on issues before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures that relate to school health. Since the coalition advocates to legislators and other decision makers, no government agencies participate. The paper describes the strategies relating to the initial development of the collaboratives and their ongoing operation. A common theme in development of both of these examples of large-scale partnerships is trust. Like any partnership, the ability to work and grow is dependent on the level of trust among the partners. Both the National Coordinating Committee on School Health and Safety and the Friends of School Health work together successfully within and across their collaborations, to improve health and educational outcomes for children and youth. While both experience challenges, and neither would indicate that its work is near completion, they provide important insight into how these collaboratives can initially develop and subsequently operate productively while providing important contributions to the promotion of healthy schools, and ultimately, healthy nations.

scholarly journals Inventing Eco-Cycle

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Smith-Nonini
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprise ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Stepping Stones ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Development Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Meeting ◽  
Alliance Building

AbstractThis article discusses lessons learned from a social enterprise project supporting sustainability education in central North Carolina (U.S.A.). Since 2011, Eco-Cycle,1 a retail shop featuring creative-reuse has provided support for a community meeting space that offers weekly environmental education workshops. Many approaches to social justice-oriented green initiatives in the United States emulate urban agriculture models and tend to be grant-dependent in early years, only achieving economic sustainability with difficulty. In contrast, our non-profit co-op of upcycler crafters and vintage vendors grew out of production and marketing of upcycled rain barrels, based on a social enterprise approach rather than a traditional model. I discuss the stepping-stones to this venture, which originated through a neighbourhood energy conservation initiative, followed by alliance-building with non-profits to promote green job creation. I relate the complications and surprising forms of synergism emerging from the social enterprise approach to social theory on cooperatives and community-based development models.1Eco-Cycle is a pseudonym.

The Incorporation of American Religion: The Case of the Presbyterians

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Louis Weeks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
American Religion ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Protestant Denominations ◽  
Family Groups

The Christian church, including all its various branches, has been consistently susceptible to the forces that form or change cultures. Scholars claim that this adaptability has been extremely important in the rise and spread of the religion. In the American environment, Protestants formed voluntary associations that attracted people individually and by family groups. This environment actually shaped “denominations” even during the colonial period. One such denomination was the Presbyterians, who pioneered in the formation of a communion that existed as neither a “state church” nor a “dissenting” church body. As the United States experienced industrialization and growing complexity in economic and cultural patterns, the Protestant denominations were affected by those same forces. Thus, denominations naturally became what came to be termed “non-profit corporations,” subject to the limitations and problems of such organizations but also the beneficiaries of that system as well.

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