Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records, 1986-2011
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Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records
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Biographical History for: Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records
Historical Note In 1985 Charon Asetoyer, Clarence Rockboy, Everdale Song Hawk, Jackie Rouse, and Lorenzo Dion, a group of Native Americans living on or near the 40,000 acre Yankton Sioux Reservation in southeastern South Dakota, came together to form the Native American Community Board (NACB). NACB's goals are to improve the quality of life by addressing issues of health, education, land and water rights, and economic development of indigenous people. It is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization that is not part of federally supported tribal government. NACB provides awareness of pertinent health issues; promotes community involvement in economic development; promotes better educational systems; coordinates urban, tribal, and state child welfare issues; and engages in activities to promote survival of culture and way of life, working on the local, national and international levels to reach these goals. Entrance of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center, circa 1989 At the time of its formation, the unemployment rate on the reservation was eighty-five percent, seventy percent of adults over age forty suffered from diabetes, the infant mortality rate was five times the national average, and life expectancy on the reservation was just forty-five years. After its 1986 incorporation as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, NACB's first project was "Women and Children in Alcohol," a fetal alcohol syndrome program -- operated out of Asetoyer and Rockboy's basement -- which served to define the direction of the organization's subsequent health work. The project aimed to address, in Charon Asetoyer's words, "fetal alcohol syndrome and all of the residual issues related to it, because you get into children's issues, you get into education, you get into women's issues and needs. And you get into how women were treated who were chemically dependent and how their rights were being violated." (Voices of Feminism oral history, 2006, p. 27) Inspired by a visit to the National Black Women's Health Project in Atlanta, Georgia, Asetoyer began to imagine a similar facility in her town, Lake Andes, South Dakota, that was more of a center than an office; a physical space where women and children could gather for self-help groups, tutoring, education, and nutrition demonstrations. In 1988 the NACB purchased a house at 810 High Street in Lake Andes and established the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC). The Center opened its doors in February of that year. NAWHERC assists women and their families through direct services, public policy advocacy, and coalition building with indigenous women around the world. The Center is noted for its community-based research and publications, which have influenced policies and practices of the Indian Health Service and other agencies. Under its treaty obligations, the U.S. government is required to provide free health care to all Native Americans living on reservations. This care is delivered via the Indian Health Service (IHS), a division of the U.S. Public Health Service. However, IHS is essentially a crisis care service. NACB established NAWHERC to provide ongoing comprehensive community health education among Native Americans and to impact policy issues that affect indigenous women nationally and internationally. "The project is designed for women and children, based on a self-help philosophy, promoting individual and group involvement in the betterment of our lives as Native American people." (31 Oct 1988 NAWHERC press release) NACB serves as the Board of Directors for NAWHERC, setting policy and monitoring its finances. As of 2006, the staff (including interns) numbered fourteen. The Resource Center is the operational headquarters for the majority of NACB's projects. It is funded primarily by private foundations and individual donors. The first organization to do work on AIDS prevention and awareness in South Dakota, NAWHERC's "wholeness" programs focus on health education and prevention (including AIDS awareness, sexually-transmitted diseases, Ob-Gyn self-help, breast cancer awareness, nutrition, and fetal alcohol syndrome); support services (domestic abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, and general support); adult learning (typing and computer skills); and child development (skill building, tutoring, computer education, and special needs services). Early "social change and advocacy" work included conferences, fairs, community action to defeat a proposed landfill, bringing a discrimination case about misuse of federal funding for Native American children, and community gardens. Later NAWHERC worked to bring attention to sterilization abuse, and questioned the efficacy and safety of reproductive technologies such as Norplant and Depo-Provera, particularly as prescribed by the Indian Health Service (HIS). Conceived as a center for wholeness and a place for promoting and facilitating social change, today NAWHERC gathers information on the health needs of indigenous women in the Aberdeen area of the IHS (North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska), provides referral services, runs a domestic violence shelter, and advocates native rights. The Center maintains programs on domestic violence, AIDS prevention, youth services, adult learning, Dakota language and culture, environmental awareness and action, fetal alcohol syndrome, nutrition, and reproductive health and rights. Beginning in 1989 NAWHERC staff did intensive research and lobbying to maintain services by preventing the IHS from converting the local hospital into an outpatient-only facility. Its staff and interns went on to research and document IHS's reproductive health care, abortion, and sexual assault services and policies. In 1990 NAWHERC co-sponsored the conference "Empowerment Through Dialogue: Native American Women and Reproductive Rights," which brought together women from eleven tribes to develop the Native Women's Reproductive Rights Agenda, and form of the Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition. As part of its AIDS Awareness and Prevention Program, NAWHERC also sponsored HIV/AIDS Gatherings for Spiritual Leaders and Traditional Healers beginning in the early 1990s. In September of 1991, after a year-long legal battle over zoning, NAWHERC opened a shelter for battered women, a few blocks away from the Resource Center. The Lake Andes Women's Lodge provides women and their children with a safe place to escape domestic violence and sexual assault. Staff studied and also documented management of domestic violence cases in the county criminal justice system and, through its 2005 Domestic Violence Prevention Project, hired a probation officer with specialized training with domestic abuse offenders. The 1993 Native American Women's Leadership Development Program partnered with two organizations on other reservations to strengthen infrastructure and provide technical assistance and training. NAWHERC produced a group of studies and reports in the mid-1990s related to environmental issues impacting the local community, such as radon, herbicide and pesticide use, fly-ash contamination, and a proposed landfill. Other programs include: Youth Services (including the Child Development Program and the Youth Wellness Program); the Adult Learning Program; the Environmental Awareness and Action Project; the Diabetic Nutrition Program; and the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Program. NAWHERC also provides information about cancer prevention, reproductive health and rights, and educational scholarships. It administers a food pantry, sponsors community health fairs, published a newsletter titled Wicozanni Wowapi Good Health Newsletter (1985-), and later an email newsletter, Indigenous Women's Reproductive Watch (2008-) Other publications include culturally sensitive nutrition education materials published in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (1990-91), the Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle: Reproductive Rights, Environmental Health, Traditional Herbs and Remedies (2003), and a Teen Dating Violence Prevention Curriculum and Workbook for Native American Girls (2003) For more information see the Center's web site at http://www.nativeshop.org/about-us.html
NAWHERC's founding Executive Director Charon Asetoyer began donating the records of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center to the Sophia Smith Collection in 2006.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records consist of 15 linear ft. dating from 1985 to 2008. Types of materials include correspondence, financial records, legal documents, news clippings, photographs, press releases, publications, studies and reports, and subject files. The bulk of the records date from 1988 to 2003 and focus on NAWHERC's administration; funding, programs, studies, and work in coalition with other women's health, indigenous rights, environmental stewardship, and women of color organizations. Major topics found throughout these papers include Native American health and cultural survival, rights of indigenous peoples, alcoholism and other drug dependency problems, abortion and reproductive health, fetal alcohol syndrome, diabetes, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, environmental toxins, sexually-transmitted diseases, and sexual and domestic violence. The Programs files document important conferences and gatherings sponsored and co-sponsored by NAWHERC, such as the HIV/AIDS Gatherings for Spiritual Leaders and Traditional Healers and the Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition which developed the Native Women's Reproductive Rights Agenda, and the Native Women's Leadership Training Program. There are also a small amounts of RESTRICTED and OVERSIZE materials at the end of the collection. Programs, Publications, and Studies and Reports files contain copies of final products and some research materials related to NAWHERC's impressive body of community-based research and its wellness publications. The records give a good sense of NAWHERC's work in coalition with many other organizations through the administrative correspondence and organizations files. As is often true of modern organizational records, NAWHERC's day-to-day operations and internal processes are less well-documented, though researchers can get a sense of the Center's ongoing activities through meeting notes and staff reports. Proposals and reports to funders and potential funders contain some of the best descriptions of NAWHERC programs. Researchers should also consult the papers of NAWHERC's Executive Director, Charon Asetoyer.
Periodic additions to collection are expected and may not be reflected in this record.
Open with caveat: collection has not been fully processed and therefore may be somewhat difficult to use. Access to audiovisual materials may first require production of research copies. Files on interns and staff which contain recommendations and evaluations are closed to research until January 1, 2037.
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright to NAWHERC's unpublished works. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Related materials can be found in the Sophia Smith Collection in the Charon Asetoyer Papers, Rebecca Adamson Papers, and the records of the National Women's Health Network Records, Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Records, Black Women's Health Imperative Records, National Latina Health Organization A 2006 interview with NAWHERC Executive Director Charon Asetoyer is part of the SSC's Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Transcript online at http://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/vof/vof-intro.html
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SERIES I. GENERAL, HISTORY, AND PHOTOGRAPHS (1987-2006)
This series provides an overview of NAWHERC and consists primarily of newspaper clippings and press releases. There are a few photographs including slides used in the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome program, images of gravesites near White Swan, and photographs from the Native Women's Reproductive Health and Rights Roundtable at the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Rights Coalition conference in 2000.
SERIES II. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD (NACB) (1986-2005)
This series contains general information about the Native American Community Board, the parent organization of NAWHERC. Included are copies of the articles of incorporation and by-laws, job descriptions, policies and procedures, Board of Directors meeting minutes and notes, financial records, and a few program proposals from the early years of the Board.
SERIES III. ADMINISTRATION (1988-2006)
This series documents the administration and day-to-day operation of NAWHERC through such materials as calendars, correspondence, job descriptions, office forms, meeting and other notes, staff reports, and contracts and orientation materials related to the Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) programs. There are also materials related to interns and a few NAWHERC events. The materials are arranged alphabetically.
SERIES IV. FINANCIAL MATERIALS (1987-97)
Records in this series include correspondence with, and reports to, foundations and individuals who supported NAWHERC's work, as well as project and general funding proposals. The project proposals and reports to funders are especially rich sources of information about the Center's activities. There is a small amount of general information about funding sources and accounting practices at the beginning of the series. Additional information about NAWHERC's finances can be found in Series II. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD.
SERIES V. LAKE ANDES WOMEN'S LODGE(1990-91)
This series contains a small amount of general information about NAWHERC's shelter for victims of domestic abuse, the Lake Andes Women's Lodge. The bulk of the materials relate to the 1990-91 struggle to obtain a zoning variance to establish the shelter and NAWHERC's associated lawsuit against the City of Lake Andes.
SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS (1987-2006)
This series contains correspondence; newsletters; brochures and flyers; conference information; and a variety of other materials related to regional, national, and international organizations working on issues of interest to NAWHERC. These include HIV/AIDS, indigenous women, American Indian groups and tribes, environmental sustainability and stewardship, reproductive rights, and women's health. While many folders contain a small amount of basic information on the organization, more extensive materials can be found in the files on the Dakota Round Table, the Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Coalition, the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Indian Health Service and Food and Drug Administration. To save stacks space, newsletters, circular letters, publications, and un-annotated Board Meeting packets which can be found elsewhere in the Sophia Smith Collection were returned to the donor. See the Provenance and Access section of this finding aid (below) for information about these related materials.
SERIES VII. PROGRAMS(1987-2005)
This series contains correspondence, proposals, contracts, reports, meeting notes, curriculum and training materials, publications and drafts, and conference and workshop materials related to NAWHERC programs.
SERIES VIII. PUBLICATIONS (1985-2008)
This series contains brochures and fact sheets about NAWHERC and a variety of health and environmental issues, low literacy nutrition education materials produced under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute and the Wicozanni Wowapi Good Health Newsletter.
Other publications can be found in Series VII. PROGRAMS and Series IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS.
SERIES IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS (1988-2005)
This series contains drafts, some correspondence and research materials, and final reports produced by NAWHERC regular and intern staff.
SERIES X. SUBJECT FILES (1979 -2006)
NAWHERC assembled files on many subjects of interest to its constituency and staff. Many of these materials were intended for a general audience and are widely available, such as US Public Health Service pamphlets about dental care. These were returned to the donor. Published materials specific to American Indians and other indigenous peoples, women's health, were retained. To save stack space, newsletters, circular letters, brochures and other published materials that can be found elsewhere in the Sophia Smith Collection were returned to the donor. Please consult "Related Materials" section of this finding aid
SERIES XI. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE (1981-2005)
This series documents NAWHERC's work with, and relationship to, the Yankton Sioux Tribe particularly as relates to environmental issues, such as efforts to prevent construction of a local landfill; tribal jurisdiction, particularly as it relates to law enforcement policies and personnel; economic development; domestic violence; and the quality and safety of the Marty Indian School. Included are materials from several lawsuits, Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Gaffey (also known as the "Jurisidiction Case"), Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Corps of Engineers (also known as the "Remains Case") and the "landfill cases" South Dakota v. Greger, South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe, and Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Southern Missouri Solid Waste Management District and Southern Missouri Solid Waste Management District v. State of South Dakota.
SERIES XII. RESTRICTED MATERIALS (1990-2005)
There are two types of restricted materials: files on interns and staff, which contain recommendations and evaluations, and original audiovisual materials. The files on interns and staff are closed to research until January 1, 2037. After that time Researchers must sign an Access Agreement Form before using them. Original audiovisual materials are closed to research. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual materials for which there is no extant use copy should contact the Sophia Smith Collection to discuss options.
SERIES XIII. OVERSIZE MATERIALS (1984-2005)
Oversize materials consist of a Lake Andes, South Dakota, zoning map; newsletters and newspapers; posters from the Stop Smoking in Indian Country campaign, and unidentified and undated flip charts used in planning a conference.
SERIES I. GENERAL, HISTORY, AND PHOTOGRAPHS
General and history
General 1988-2011, n.d.
News clippings 1988-2005, n.d.
Press release, 5 Jan 1995
Photographs
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Slide Program, circa 1987
Grave site near White Swan, circa 1992
Native Women's Reproductive Health and Rights Roundtable, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Rights Coalition 2000
Unidentified, n.d.
SERIES II. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD (NACB)
General 1986-95
"Native American Community Board" paper by Marilyn Crovatin for POLS 670, 12 Dec 1995
Articles of incorporation and bylaws 1986
Job descriptions 1986-88, n.d.
Policies and procedures
General, n.d.
Personnel 1989, n.d.
Board of Directors
Rosters 2002
Minutes 1986, 1989-2003
Annual meeting, 18 Jan 1992
Correspondence 1991-2005
Financial materials
Employer ID number 1985-90
Forms and procedures, n.d.
Tax exempt status 1986-87, n.d.
Balance sheet 1988, 1991-92
Financial statements 1989-91, 1996-2003
Annual Detail ledger 1991
General ledger, 30 Sep 1992
Income tax forms 1989-2004
Miscellaneous 1990-97
Proposals and miscellaneous 1986-87
SERIES III. NAWHERC ADMINISTRATION
General 1990-93
Advisory Committee 1991
Calendars 1991-92
Correspondence
General
Andes Central School District 1988-89
Boston Women's Health Book Collective 1988-96
Senator Tom Daschle 1989-2003, nd.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader 1988-89
Yankton Sioux Tribe 1989-96, n.d.
Equipment inventory 1993
Incident reports 1993-94
Interns
General 1988-93, n.d.
Orientation manual by Amy Maher, Oct 1992
Job descriptions 1993, n.d.
Office forms, n.d.
Mailing lists 1999, n.d.
Meeting notes, miscellaneous 1991-93, 1996, n.d.
National Cancer Institute data collection, Cervical Cancer video for Native Americans 1991
Notes, miscellaneous 1991, n.d.
Public Service Announcements 1996-99, n.d.
South Dakota Touring Arts Teams visits to Lake Andes 1992-93
Staff
General 1982-91
Assignment sheets 1991-92
Meeting minutes 1991-93
Reports 1988-94
Retreat 1994
University of South Dakota, Nutrition Consultant Services 1992, n.d.
Valentine's Day Sobriety Dance, 14 Feb 1990
Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) contract 1989
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
General 1993-94
Orientation, May 1994
Weekly visits and calls totals 1988-92
The Winters Group, Women of Color Reproductive Health Care Study 1990-91, n.d.
Work notes 1994
Workshop evaluations 1989
SERIES IV. FINANCIAL MATERIALS
General 1988-94, n.d.
Chart of Accounts 1993, n.d.
Funding sources 1984, n.d.
Kathleen Broken Rope Fund 1992, n.d.
Funding correspondence
General 1988-95, n.d.
Chief Illiniwek Education Foundation (CHIEF) controversy 1999
Domestic and Sexual Abuse (DASA) grant 1993-94
Funding Exchange, National Community Funds
Innovations in State and Local Government Program (Ford Foundation and Kennedy School of Government) 1990
Joint Foundation Support, Inc. 1988-91
Needmor Fund 1988-89
Presbytery of the Northern Plains and Dakota Presbytery 1987-90
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1988-91
Ruth Mott Fund 1987-89
Seventh Generation Fund 1988-90, n.d.
South Dakota Community Foundation 1988-90
South Dakota Department of Labor, Job Training Partnership Act 1990-92
Lyn Stephens 1990-92
Tides Foundation 1991-94
United Methodist Church 1988-89
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health 1989
Genevieve Vaughan 1988-90
Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) grant 1989-93
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Family/Community Cluster Network 1990
Networking and Evaluation Conferences 1988-90
Funding proposals
Choices…A Domestic Violence Shelter Assistance Program, n.d.
Computer Program 1988
Ihanktonwan Healthy Communities and Environment Program, circa 1997
Melvin B. Bruguier Memorial Fast Pitch Tournament, n.d.
Native American Women's Leadership Development Program for Improving Community Health, n.d.
NAWHERC pilot project general funding, circa 1988
Rural Children and Community Computer and Internet Access Program, circa 1998
The Women's Lodge: A Domestic Violence Shelter Assistance Program, circa 1991
Reference file: sample proposals 1989-91
SERIES V. LAKE ANDES WOMEN'S LODGE
General 1990-98, n.d.
Emergency Proposal "A Call to Fight Racism and Assaults Against Native American Women," n.d.
High Street: abstracts of title to land 1942-87
Zoning variance
Correspondence 1990-91
Publicity 1990-91
NAWHERC vs. City of Lake Andes
Research and correspondence with Center for Constitutional Rights 1990-92, n.d.
Complaint, n.d.
Affirmations 1991
Trial transcript, 2 Aug 1991; 6-7Aug 1991
Judgement, 9 Aug 1991
SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance, Northern Territory, Australia (AMSANT) 1994-96, n.d.
American Civil Liberties Union, Reproductive Rights Update 1994-95
American Friends Service Committee 1985
American Indian Community House 1999
American Indian Health Care Association 1992
American Indian Organization, Winnebago 1986-92, n.d.
Asian Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health 1991-93, n.d.
Black Hills Teton Sioux Nation 1995
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Catholics for a Free Choice 1998
Center for Cultural Survival, Inc. 1992
Center for Reproductive Rights 2005
CHETNA, Gujarat, India 1993-94, n.d.
Dakota Round Table
Dakota Roundtable I 1993
Conference packet
Evaluations
A Report on the Status of Native American Youth in the Aberdeen Area
Draft
Published version
Dakota Roundtable II 1994
A Report on the Status of Native American Women in the Aberdeen Area
Dakota Roundtable III 1996
A Report on the Status of Young Native American Women in the Aberdeen Area
DoCIP (Indigenous Peoples Center for Documentation, Research and Information) 1996-2004
Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers 1989-96
Fond du Lac Group Home 1996
Food and Drug Administration
Four Worlds Development Project 1985-86
Friends Committee on National Legislation 1998
Greenpeace/National Coalition for Health and Environmental Justice 1995-97
Grumin Indigenous Women Education Group 1996
Indian Health Service
Indian Land Working Group 2003
Indian Youth of America 1989
Indigenous Environmental Network 1991-96
Interchange/Woman to Woman/Mujer a Mujer 1989, n.d.
International Women's Day Network 1991-92
Lake Andes Indian Education Committee 1989
Medical Students for Choice 1996
Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force 1992-96
Multicultural Women's Health Centre, Fremantle, Australia 1992
Native Action 2001
National Black Women's Health Project 1992-93, n.d.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1998
National Congress of American Indians 1997, 2003
National Indian Health Board 1993
National Latina Health Organization/Organizacion Nacional de la Salud de la Mujer Latina 1987-88, 1995
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center 1989-91
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence 1997-98
National Rural Health Association 1988-89
National SIDS and Infant Death Program Support Center 1999
National Women's Health Network 1990-2005
Native Indian Crisses Center, Blackfeet Reservation, n.d.
Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition
Oglala Lakota Nation 1994-96
Peta Wakan Tipi 1994, n.d.
Planned Parenthood 1990-93
Positively Native 1993-96
Presbyterian Native American Caucus, n.d.
Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, Women of Color Partnership Program 1988-91
Sacred Fire Lodge, n.d.
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
National Conference 2003
Management Circle meetings
Jul 2005
Native Women's Reproductive Health and Rights Roundtable 2001
South Dakota Advocacy Network for Women 1988-89
South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence
General 1987-89, 1993-96
Calendar 1996
South Dakota Legislative Task Force to Study Abortion 2005
South Dakota Peace and Justice Center 1996
Southeastern South Dakota Health Resources Development Program 1991-92
Sustainable Native Agriculture Center (SNAC) 1988
Trickle Up Program 1992-93
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Miscellaneous departments 1989-2005
Food and Drug Administration 1992-95
General 1983-2006
Budget: correspondence and notes 1989-90
Correspondence 1988-93
Indian Women's Health Care Round Table 1991
Interviews with rape victims treated at IHS, Wagner 2003
Proposed Wagner Service Unit closure: questions and concerns 1990
Report: "Fiscal and Program Improvements Recommendations for Emergency Room Services, Yankton Wagner Service Unit" 2005
Working Group on Native American women's reproductive health needs 2002-03, n.d.
United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs 1992
Venceremos Brigade 1988-89
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society 1991
White Mountain Apache Tribe 1989
Women for a Meaningful Summit 1987/88
Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) 1988-94
Women of All Red Nations (WARN) 1992
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights 2000-03
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1990-92
Wyan Omni ?Ciye 1987
Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization 1994
Yay Yukar no Mori 1995
Young Women's Voices 1990
Miscellaneous 1988-2005, n.d.
SERIES VII. PROGRAMS
AIDS Prevention and Awareness
General1988, n.d.
"The Impact of AIDS in the Native American Community" by Tracey Easthope and Charon Asetoyer, summer 1988
Proposals to foundations 1988-89
Drafts and background materials
Proposal and correspondence 1988
Proposal 1989
State of South Dakota contract, Jan 1989
Public Health Service funding proposal, Jun 1989
South Dakota Native American AIDS Task Force/Coalition Planning Meeting, 9 Nov 1989
Indian Health Service funding 1991-92
Proposals, contracts, and notes
Evaluation reports
Notes on meetings with Donna Haukass, AIDS Consultant 1992
HIV/AIDS Training Conference for Young Adults, Mar 1992
Training materials
Reservation workshops 1992
Second HIV/AIDS Gathering for Spiritual Leaders and Traditional Healers, 2-3 Jun 1992
HIV/AIDS Resource book: correspondence 1992
Indian Health Service funding 1993-94
Third HIV/AIDS Gathering for Spiritual Leaders and Traditional Healers, 11 Feb 1994
Child Development Program
"A Program to Bridge the Educational Gaps for Native American Children," proposal submitted to the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Mar-Apr 1992
Dakota Language and Culture Workbook and Coloring Book, Book I of the Dakota Cultural Institute 1994
Early Childhood Development/Dakota Language Immersion Program (aka Dakota Language Revitalization Program)
Support letters 2000
Curriculum 2000-01 versions
Curriculum 2002
Year 1 Process Evaluation Report, 20 Dec 2002
Native American Language Revitalization and School Retention Program: proposal for Administration for Native Americans funding
Original, 16 Mar 2001
Revisions, Jun-Jul 2001
Dakota Language Advisory Committee 2002
Colorectal Cancer Testing Campaign, Nov 1990
Diabetes Awareness and Nutrition Program
"The Positive Impact of Community Based Self-Help Education Among the Native American Diabetic Population of the Yankton Sioux Reservation" by Sonya Shin and Charon Asetoyer, summer 1991
Domestic Violence Prevention Project
Proposal to U.S. Department of Justice 2002
Findings of the Specialized Domestic Violence Probation Project 2005
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Calendar and poster 1992
Slide program: script, circa 1987
Video: "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome…A Global Issue," sales 1987-88
Indigenous Women's Health Curriculum/Book
Curriculum, Feb 2000
Curriculum, Jun 2001
Book, revision 11, n.d.
Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle: Reproductive Rights, Environmental Health, Traditional Herbs and Remedies 2003
Correspondence and notes 2000-03
Draft, n.d.
Published book 2003
Native American Community Health Education and Awareness Program
Annual Report to Funders 1990-91
Proposals 1988-92
Proposal notes and background, n.d.
Evaluation reports 1989-92
Native American Women's Leadership Development Training Program
General 1991-93, n.d.
"Expanding the Unfinished Agenda" on Health Issues Among Native Americans: proposal to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
19 Jun 1991
Revised proposal 1992
Advisory Committee
Membership 1993
Minutes and reports 1993
Evaluation report 1994
Native American Young Peoples Wellness Program (NAYPWP)
Curriculum proposal 1995
"Curriculum of Workshops" 1999
Family Violence Survey 2005
"Teen Dating Violence Support Group Curriculum" 1999
"Teen Dating Violence Prevention Curriculum and Workbook for Native American Girls" developed by Emily Janes, Mia Luluquisen, Kelly Hoffman, and Martina Taylor
Aug 2001
Drafts 2001
Questionnaires 2003
Sales data 2002-03
Statistics/data, n.d.
Year Two Evaluation Report [page 1 missing] 1998
Year Three Evaluation Report, Jul 2000
General 1991
Cervical cancer video survey 1991
Funding 1991, n.d.
Meetings 1990-93
Conferences
Empowerment Through Dialogue: Native American Women and Reproductive Rights, 16-18 May 1990
Native Women's Reproductive Rights Conference, 31 Jul 1990
Second Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition Conference, 17-19 Jan 1993
Daycare
Mailings
Speakers
Third Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition Conference 1994: planning materials
Native Women's Reproductive Rights Agenda (developed at the Empowerment Through Dialogue conference 1990)
Report on the Proposal Review, George Gund Foundation 1994
Stop Smoking in Indian Country Campaign, 1993
Printed materials
Public Service Announcements 1993
Miscellaneous 1989, 2005, n.d.
SERIES VIII. PUBLICATIONS
Lists and order forms 2008-09, n.d.
Brochures and fact sheets
NAWHERC general brochures, n.d.
Cancer, n.d.
Contraception, n.d.
Contraception: research and drafts 1985-2005, n.d.
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 1995, n.d.
Environment, n.d.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, n.d.
Gay and Lesbian, n.d.
Health, miscellaneous 1999, n.d.
HIV/AIDS 1992, n.d.
Nutrition and Diabetes 1999, n.d.
Reproductive Health and Pregnancy 1997, n.d.
Reproductive Health and Rights Agenda 1990, 2000
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, n.d.
Smoking, n.d.
National Cancer Institute, US Department of Health and Human Services, Low Literacy Nutrition Education Materials Targeting Specific Underserved/Ethnic Populations, 1990-91
General, correspondence, and contract
Artwork by J.R. Rouse 1990
"Healthy Choices on the Road"
"Less Fat is Easy"
"Traditional Food Can Be Healthy"
"Why All the Talk About Fiber?"
Wicozanni Wowapi Good Health Newsletter 1985-2004
"Women's Reproductive Health and Rights" from NAWHERC Web site, circa 2005
Newsletter notes and drafts, n.d.
SERIES IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS
"Community Survey Report and Evaluation of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Programs and Services" by Chelsea Harper, Nov 1997
"A Comprehensive Report on and Comparative Analysis of Methamphetamine Related Penalties in South Dakota and Other Midwestern States," Parul Garg, Bryony Heise, & Charon Asetoyer 2004
"Current Health Status of the Wagner Service Unit Area (Yankton, Santee and Rosebud Sioux Reservations) and the Effects of Indian Health Services Proposed Inpatient Service Closure," Raelene Walker 1989
Report
Research materials
"Current Status of the Wagner Indian Health Service Health Care Facility (Wagner, South Dakota) and the Effects of Indian Health Service's Inpatient Service Closure," Nicole Bazan 1994
Dakota Round Table reports
"ESF [Eagle Staff Fund] $62,032 Start-Up Grants Case Study Report" by Pame Kingfisher, Apr 1988
Focus Group Examining the Indian Health Service's Reproductive Health Care for Native American Women in the Aberdeen Area
Report # 1, "The Current Status of Indian Health Service's Reproductive Health Care" 1999
Report #2, "Young Native American Women's Knowledge of Reproductive Tract Infections" 1999
"Health Survey for the Yankton Sioux Reservation Community," Leslie Boyd, Nov 1993
"The Impact of Norplant in the Native American Community"
Report by Natasha Lowry and Charon Asetoyer, Jun 1992
Drafts and correspondence 1991-92
Interviews, spring 1992
Norplant Project interviews, Tiya Miles, fall 1992
"Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights/Justice" series
"The Indian Health Service and Its Inconsistent Application of the Hyde Amendment," by Kati Schindler, Anna E. Jackson, and Charon Asetoyer, Oct 2002
Mailing lists for distribution of paper
"Roundtable Report on Access to Abortion Services Through the Indian Health Service Under the Hyde Amendment," Apr 2003
"A Survey of Sexual Assault Policies and Protocols Within Indian Health Service Emergency Rooms," by Julie Andrews, Bryony Heise, and Charon Asetoyer, Jan 2005
Maternal Health and Pre-Natal Care report draft, n.d.
"The Positive Impact of Community Based Self-Help Education Among the Native American Diabetic Population of the Yankton Sioux Reservation," Sonya Shin, 1991
Drafts and notes
"Radon in My Community: The Impact of Radon In the Yankton Sioux Communities," Michele Dickson, 1992
"Recycling or Alleged Recycling? A Review of the Hydromex Waste Processing System," Heather Gilbert 1994
"Report on and Analysis of the Yankton Sioux Reservation Community Health Fairs: Winter 1993-94," Linda Appel, 1994
"A Report on Southern Missouri Waste Management Association's Proposed Landfill Project in the Lake Andes Area, South Dakota," Sia Lindstrom 1993
"Report on the Southern Missouri Recycling and Waste Management District's Operations," Patricia Bachmann, 12 Mar 1998
"Revictimizing the Battered: An Investigation of the Charles Mix County Criminal Justice System's Management of Domestic Violence Cases," Halle Liza Gafori 1994
"A Review of the Use and Effects of Depo-Provera on Native American Women"by Ellen Chen and Charon Asetoyer, summer 1995
"A Study of the Herbicide and Pesticide Use Within the Lake Andes Watershed on the Yankton Sioux Reservation," Susie Lim 1996
"A Study of the Use of Depo-Provera and Norplant by the Indian Health Services"
Report and revised report by Lin Krust and Charon Asetoyer, Jul 1993
Questionnaires, Naomi Sunshine, spring 1993
Protocol notes 1993
"A Survey of the Indian Health Service Abortion Policy and Its Application by Indian Health Service Units," by Kati Schindler, Jul 2002
"Wakanhejah (They Too Are Sacred): Federal Funding, the Current Education State, and Achieving Academic Excellence for All Children in Lake Andes," Jennifer Wies & Charon Asetoyer 2000
Yankton Sioux Health Report draft (Amy) 1994
SERIES X. SUBJECT FILES
Abortion 1990-91, n.d.
Adolescent health 1991, n.d.
AIDS
Native Americans 1989-96
Training for Cultural Competence in the HIV Epidemic 1992-93
Women 1987-96
Alcohol and drug dependency
General 1985-97
Cocaine babies 1988-91
Fetal alcohol syndrome 1981-92
Inhalants 1991, n.d.
Birth Control
General 1987-95, n.d.
Norplant 1990-95, n.d.
Body composition measurement 1993-94, n.d.
Cancer
General 1994-96, n.d.
Breast cancer 1990-96, n.d.
Child welfare and abuse 1989-95
Children's health 1979, n.d.
Children's rights 1984
Cholesterol 1989-93, n.d.
Colleges and universities 1985, n.d.
Diabetes and nutrition 1983-98, n.d.
Diarrhea-Oral rehydration therapy 1979-91, n.d.
Domestic violence and sexual assault
General 1985-99, n.d.
South Dakota Victim Services Directory 1985-99, n.d.
Support group materials 1985-97, n.d.
Training 1997, n.d.
Elderly 1996-98, n.d.
Electro-magnetic fields, n.d.
Environment/Environmental Justice
General 1990-2004
General (cont'd) 1990-2004
Contaminants and reproductive health 1980-93
Hepatitis vaccine experiment, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 1990
Housing and homelessness 1987-92
Indian News, Bureau of Indian Affairs newsletter 1991-93
Lead exposure, occupational 1997-98
Native American
Culture and issues
General 1981-96, n.d.
Boarding school interviews 1998
Casinos 1984-92
Dakota culture: Seven Council Fires, n.d.
Education 1991-95
Health
General 1989-97
Treatment programs 1998, n.d.
Tribal health resources
Nebraska, n.d.
South Dakota
General 1993, n.d.
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, n.d.
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe 1989
World Health Organization Participatory Research Management Guidelines: draft 2002
Resources/Organizations 1986-98
Nuclear waste 1994-97, n.d.
Racism 1988-96, n.d.
Reproductive health
General 1988-98
Catholic Church 1994-98, n.d.
Childbirth picture book, n.d.
Reproductive rights 1984-92, n.d.
Rural health issues 1989
Self-help OB/GYN 1979-94, n.d.
Sexually transmitted diseases 1984-96, n.d.
Smoking 1990
Sterilization 1994-2000, n.d.
South Dakota voting rights 2006
Teen pregnancy prevention 1997, n.d.
Teen suicide, n.d.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 1997, n.d.
Traditional healing 1988
Women of color and health 1990-98, n.d.
Women's health 1991-95, n.d.
Miscellaneous 1994, n.d.
HoHHH
SERIES XI. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE (YST)
General and History
General 1982-2000, n.d.
Gravesite near White Swan 1991-92
Sioux history 1934-94, n.d.
Yankton Sioux history 1967-96, n.d.
Domestic Abuse Code, n.d.
Domestic Violence Probation Officer, n.d.
First American Footwear Corporation 1992
Fort Randall Casino 1991-92
Healthy Start Program 1990-93, n.d.
"Jurisidiction Case" Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Gaffey
General 1998-2004
Memorandum Opinion and Order 1998
Appeal 1999
Landfill
General 1991-97, n.d.
Fact sheets and newspaper clippings 1993-95, n.d.
Environmental Protection Agency
General 1995-96
"EPA Hearings, Lake Andes Proposed Landfill 1/24/96" by Charon Asetoyer
Legal
South Dakota v. Greger: Appeal 1997
South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe reports on decision, Jan 1998
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Southern Missouri Solid Waste
Management District and Southern Missouri Solid Waste
Management District v. State of South Dakota 1995-96
Reference file on landfills 1993-97, n.d.
Reference file on watersheds 1992-96, n.d.
Southern Missouri Solid Waste Management Association
General 1997-98
Grant applications 1994
Permit application 1993
Revised permit 1996
Site Characterization Study for Solid Waste Landfill, Jan and Jul 1993
Veterans Administration/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill 1997-98
Voices Organized to Save the Environment (VOTE)
General 1993-94, n.d.
"Report on Southern Missouri Waste Management Association's Proposed Landfill Project" by Sia Lindstrom, Jun 1993
Appellant's Reply Brief in the matter of the Proposed Municipal Solid Waste Permit to Southern Missouri Solid Waste Management, Inc., 10 May 1994
Law enforcement
Lake Andes police/jail issues and boycott 1989-2004, n.d.
Charles Mix County Jail conditions 2003-04
Marina (proposed) at Fort Randall dam 1993
Northern Plains Native Nations Treaty Council meeting 1996
Operation Eagle 1983
Pesticides Code, n.d.
Potential funding sources 1996, n.d.
Recycling Curriculum, circa 1997
"Redistricting Case" Blackmoon et al v. Charles Mix County
General 2005
Ward II 2001-05
Andes Central School District boundaries 2005
"Remains Case" Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Corps of Engineers 1999-2000
Schools
General 1988-91, n.d.
Marty Indian School
Infirmary 1989-90
Grant application, "Seventh Generation Council Striving for Sobriety by the Year 2000," 1990
Lead poisoning 1996-97
Fly-ash report 1997
South Dakota Equal Justice Commission 2005
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council Report
Tribal Youth Program 2001
United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota Development Corporation
Energy Transportation Systems, Inc. 1981
Pick-Sloan Power 1981-82
Threat Package 1982
SERIES XII. RESTRICTED MATERIALS
Interns 1990-95, 2005
[CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 1, 2037]
Staff evaluations -
Computer disks containing slide presentations and reports 1992-2005
[Original audiovisual materials are closed to research. Researchers interested in accessing audiovisual materials for which there is no extant use copy should contact the Sophia Smith Collection to discuss options]
OVERSIZE MATERIALS
City of Lake Andes zoning map, 1984; and posters and newsletters 1993-2005, n.d. two AIDS prevention posters from Cameroon, n.d.
Conference [unidentified] planning flip chart sheets, n.d.
Newspapers: miscellaneous issues of Apache Scout, Dakota Journal, Indian Country Today, Lakota Eyapaha/Sicangu Sun Times, Lakota Journal, Lakota Times, Morena Newspaper, Native Voice, Sioux Messenger, Wagner Post 1989-2005