American Indian Development
The American Indian Development program was developed in the 1950s by a group of American anthropologists and sociologists. American Indian Development lasted into the mid-1970s.
They brought American Indian college students from the United States and eventually from Canada into a summer workshop for six weeks. The academic program involved advanced social and political theory of the social conditions that tribal and urban Indians were facing.
There were many individuals involved this his grand effort which resulted in many of the students making an impact with their own individual activities within the tribe and in their own professions.
Eventually, the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) started their own workshops known as the Clyde Warrior Institute of American Indian Studies. And, the Canadian Indian Youth Council (CIYC) held workshops for a few years. I was a student of the AID workshops in 1965 and 1966. And, I became a Director of a Clyde Warrior Institute in 1969 at the University of Colorado. This program became the forerunner of the American Indian EOP and American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. I became the founder and director of these programs in the Fall of 1969.
The AID Workshops, NIYC Institutes and CIYC Workshops have not operated for nearly 30 years.
A few of the individuals, professors and, at the time, students involved in the workshops and Institutes were:
D'Arcy & Vi McNickle
Robert K. Thomas (Uncle Bob)
Rolland H. Wright (Bud)
Omer C. Stewart
John Tomson
Richard Pope (The Pope)
Jack Forbes
Albert Wahrhaftig
Mike Mohr
Sol Tax
Edward Spicer
Edward Dozier
Helen Peterson
Deward Walker
LaVonna Weller, Nina Siquieros, Dottie Francis, Agatha Yazzie, Fern Ludlow, Lorene Bennett
Andrew Cruz, Mildred McCloud, Quannah Taylor, Irene Widmark, Mary Ellen Gary, Andrea Bear, Charles Cambridge
Sharon Chase, Jocelyn Wilson, Mary Jiron, Samuel Montoya, Alexander Garcia, Marcella Cash
Richard Nichols, Rolland Wright, Wayne Davis, Phillip Lujan, Dennis Martinez, Richard Pope, Howard Ranier, Charles Holquin, Josh Peters.
Stephen Mitchell and Browning Pipestem not pictured.
I will be adding several
documents by Fall 2009.
