How well do you think Native American organizations,like the Bureau of Indian Affairs,are helping Native Ameri

Question

How well do you think Native American organizations, like the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), are helping Native Americans to advance? Explain your answer. If anything, what are organizations like these doing to mitigate tribal poverty, and encourage prosperity?

Answer 1

If this is a serious question for a report or thesis, I recommend contacting each of the organizations to get an idea of their agendas and then contact various reservations to get their take on the organizations and how they help or hinder and how they think the organizations can be improved.

I also recommend that you go to www.grandforksherald.com and contact Dorreen Yellow Bird. She is a columnist at the paper who used to work for NCAI in the late 70's and through most of the 80's and has been active in tribal life on the reservation. I don't know her personally but I went to college with her son and this is how I am aware of her.

Good Luck.