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- Title: American Indian Organizational Education in Chicago: The Community Board Training Project, 1979-1989 (ARTICLE 13)
- Author : American Education History Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 237 KB
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American Indian organizations in Chicago grew both in size and number during the 1970s. The lasting impact of War on Poverty programs and the passing of the Indian Education Act of 1972 and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 served as significant factors for the development of these organizations. Alternative American Indian schools such as Little Big Horn High School and O-Wai-Ya-Wa Elementary School, social service agencies such as the Native American Committee and St. Augustine's Center for American Indian, and employment agencies such as the American Indian Business Association became recipients of sizable federal grants ("Little Big Horn" 1972; McDonald and Delgado 1978; Barnier 1976; Woods and Harkins 1968, 3; NAES College 1980). With the federal government investing substantial sums of money in antipoverty initiatives primarily focused on urban centers, American Indian organizations began expanding efforts to meet the growing needs of Chicago's American Indian community. These educational, social service, and employment organizations served an increasing number of American Indians who concentrated in or near Uptown, one of the city's most notorious neighborhoods characterized by poor housing conditions, high crime, and high unemployment. An estimated 70 percent of American Indians living in Uptown and nearby neighborhoods belonged to an "unstable lower working-class group" (Fuchs and Havighurst 1972, 109). Furthermore, the dropout rate for American Indian children, by some estimates, was as high as 90 percent (Sorkin 1978, 89; Garber 1970).