How Families Survive and Thrive in the American Indian and Alaska Native Community

Told from a Native perspective, the research provides practitioners, policy makers, and community-based organizations with a nuanced view of how American Indian and Alaskan Native American communities have survived, what they value, and how deeply rooted practice and beliefs have sustained them for generations.

Context is critical in understanding Native American culture and society and is influenced by historical issues of federal-Indian law,traumatic effects of land loss, relocation to other states, tribal identity and enrollment, boarding school experiences, pressures to assimilate, and social and economic changes.