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Tribally controlled community colleges understand as well as anyone the destructive nature of dependency. When the faculty and administrators walk out their colleges’
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A Community Responsibility for Welfare Reform
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A Safe Place for Children at Rosebud
One of the biggest problems that faces single parents who are attempting to get off of welfare on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota is day care.
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Welfare Reform Will Create More Misery
Some federal officials decry tribal people who question welfare reform. Reasonable tribal people support the idea of ending dependency and welfare. However, tribes cannot support an inadequate program destined to create more misery on many reservations.
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Welfare Reform in Indian Country: A crisis or an opportunity?
John Bushman, director of the Division of Tribal Services, reflects on the common challenges facing the federal, state, and tribal governments brought about by welfare reform.
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From Welfare to Business Owner
As federal officials bantered about ways to ease, push, pull, or prod people off of welfare, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and their tribal college have been watching successes in their GATE program on the Flathead Reservation in northwest Montana.
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Welfare Reform and the Tribal Colleges: Who’s Left Holding the Bag?
Tribal colleges are not mentioned in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, but the colleges will be crucial players as the reform scenario unfolds on the reservations with tribal colleges.
