Re:Native (North American) Indians

I came across this abstract of an article.. it may help to read some of the periodicals like NatSt (Native Studies) Review Journal from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada)

"Native and Mainstream
Parenting Programs
Adje van de Sande

The purpose of this article is to describe Positive Indian Parenting and Cherish the Children Native, two Native parenting programs that teach traditional Native child-rearing practices and encourage a reliance on the extended family and elders for support. The article suggests that these parenting programs are more relevant for Native families and should be more effective in reducing child abuse and neglect in Native communities than would be true of mainstream parenting programs. Following a review of the literature on mainstream parenting and Native parenting practices, the article compares programs developed for mainstream North American parents with those developed for Native people. It offers a theoretical framework for Native parenting programs based on Garbarino's ecological model. Two mainstream programs, Parent Effectiveness Training (PET) and Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP), are compared and contrasted to two Native parenting programs, Positive Indian Parenting and Cherish the Children. The article concludes with a review of outcome evaluation studies done on mainstream parenting programs and a discussion of how some of this knowledge can be applied to Native programs. "

I hope this gives you a place to start. :)

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