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Community Based Research with Oklahoma American Indians. Reba Solomon, M.H.R. Protocol, Inc. Chapel Hill North Carolina July17, 1998. Oklahoma Tribes. Cheyenne Chickasaw Chippewa Choctaw Comanche Conestoga Creek Delaware Eel River Indians Erie. Alabama Anadarko Apache
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Community Based Researchwith Oklahoma American Indians Reba Solomon, M.H.R. Protocol, Inc. Chapel Hill North Carolina July17, 1998
Oklahoma Tribes • Cheyenne • Chickasaw • Chippewa • Choctaw • Comanche • Conestoga • Creek • Delaware • Eel River Indians • Erie • Alabama • Anadarko • Apache • Apalachicola • Arapaho • Caddo • Cahokia • Catawba • Cayuga • Cherokee • Hainai • Hitchiti • Illinois • Iowa • Kaskaskia • Kansa • Kichai • Kickapoo • Kiowa • Kiowa-Apache • Koasati • Lipan • Miami • Michigamea • Modoc • Moingwena • Mohawk • Munsee • Natchez • Nez Perce´
Oklahoma Tribes (Cont’d) • Osage • Oto & Missouri • Ottawa • Pawnee • Peoria • Piankashaw • Ponca • Potawatomi • Quapaw • Sauk & Fox • Seminole • Seneca • Shawnee • Skidi • Stockbridge • Tamaroa • Tawakoni • Tonkawa • Tuscarora • Tuskegee • Waco • Wea • Wichita • Wyandot
Community Based Projects CommunityProject/Sponsor Cherokee Nation Substance Use-Abuse 1992-1996 (Funded by CSAP) Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes Adolescent Substance Use 1993 (Funded by Cheyenne-Arapaho) Caddo, Kiowa, Wichita, Tobacco Intervention with Delaware, Apache, Comanche WIC Women 1995-1996 (Funded by IHS) Southwestern Oklahoma Violence Against Indian 1996-1997 Women (Funded by NIH)
Study Question Considerations 1) Research a “Dirty Word” to Indians 2) Determining Indian Community Needs by the “Grass Roots” 3) Developing Survey Questions From the Community 4) Why Indians Do Not Want You to “Study” Them? Examples: A) Research Center Without Indians B) Community Does Not Hear About Research C) Articles Published in Referred Journals Are the Standard of Success???
Multi-Cultural Involvement A. Indian Research B. Communities C. Academic Institution D. Funding Sources
What We Can Do to Research in Indian Community 1) Trust 2) Knowledge 3) Respect 4) Community Ownership