Bush's address leaves out tribal housing.(Brief Article)

Increasing numbers of employment-related cases are involving Native Americans. Several reasons contribute to this trend. First, Native American tribes are expanding economic development on and off reservations, and these activities are generating complex legal questions with respect to employment practices and liability. Also, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced ......

HEADNOTE ABSTRACT HEADNOTE THIS ARTICLE WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW of the development of tribal libraries, the events which have affected them, and their status today. Issues of recruiting and retaining Native American/Alaska Natives within the profession are discussed with suggestions for successful strategies. INTRODUCTION The relationship between Native Americans and ......

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced that homeownership had reached a historical high of 67 percent in the second quarter of 1999, in part because of the rising number of minority homebuyers. National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) Chairman Chester Carl contends that this trend has mostly ......

Transportation Secretary Slater signed an order calling for agencies of DOT to build more effective working relationships with Native American tribal governments and to provide more opportunities for Native Americans to participate in transportation programs. The new policy implements federal mandates, including a memorandum in which President Clinton directed all ......

ABSTRACT As linguists working with the revival, maintenance, and survival of Native American languages have noted, the forces causing languages to become obsolete are not merely linguistic: Political, economic, and social factors all influence the viability of indigenous languages. Thus, researchers addressing Native American issues must pay attention to these ......

2nd ed., rev. & enlarged. Univ. Of Oklahoma. 494p. illus. bibliog. index. c2001. 0-8061-3309-0. $21.95. SA Teachers and libraries hard pressed to answer questions about Native Americans will be very pleased to learn that this book is available. In this second edition, the author makes use of his experiences with ......

Would the Blackpipe and Gordon fair-lending cases have been avoided through mutual education -- bankers teaching tribal members about finance and tribes working to familiarize bankers with the way things work on reservations? Possibly a better understanding might have resulted. "Providing Financial Services to Native Americans in Indian Country," a ......

No sooner had I sounded off in this blog about women having it all --- and my frustration that we're stll asking this question, and having trouble moving past the idea that there must be SOMETHING valuable and wonderful that women must give up, to be sucessful in both the ......

A year ago I stopped into one of my favorite San Francisco restaurants to say hello to the head chef who had been cooking at the breakfast/lunch spot for 15 years. He wasn't in. The staff said he was on vacation - strange since he had never taken a day ......

SBA marks 50th "SBA marks 50th with 'Hall of Fame' ceremony" Kent Hoover "The Small Business Administration expects about 3,000 small businesses to attend its National Entrepreneurial Conference and Expo in Washington, D.C. " - Brief article on the SBA's 50th. They've helped a lot of us so check ......