An Overview of Selected Tribal Research and Evaluation Activities
- The Michigan Public Health Institute in Okemos, MI, in
partnership with the Native American Institute at Michigan State University,
is helping
five tribes evaluate programs being conducted with TYP grants.
- The College of Menominee Nation in Keshena, WI, is working
with Menominee organizations to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate
a culturally appropriate, community-based, family-centered, integrated
approach to the prevention of delinquency among tribal youth ages 11–18.
- New Mexico State University in Las Cruces is conducting
a study that examines delinquency and the legal processing of Native
American
juveniles in a Four Corners tribe during the past 11 years, taking
into account changes in tribal resources during that time, such as
the opening
of a casino on the reservation.
- The Navajo Nation Judicial
Branch in Window Rock, AZ, is conducting a comprehensive assessment
of gang activity, the first such
assessment
undertaken by a tribal government, to identify approaches that can
be adopted by tribes to deal with gangs.
- Building on the Navajo gang study, researchers at California State University in Sacramento are using ethnographic observation and interviewing community members and gang members to document and profile the youth gang experience in up to six tribal sites across the Nation.
More information on these projects can be found in the OJJDP Fact Sheet OJJDP’s Program of Research for Tribal Youth (Fung and Wyrick, 2001).
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