Contents


Collection Overview

Administrative Information

Historical Note

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Organization of the Collection

SERIES I. GENERAL, HISTORY, AND PHOTOGRAPHS (1987-2006)

SERIES II. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD (NACB) (1986-2005)

SERIES III. ADMINISTRATION (1988-2006)

SERIES IV. FINANCIAL MATERIALS (1987-97)

SERIES V. LAKE ANDES WOMEN'S LODGE(1990-91)

SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS (1987-2006)

SERIES VII. PROGRAMS(1987-2005)

SERIES VIII. PUBLICATIONS (1985-2008)

SERIES IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS (1988-2005)

SERIES X. SUBJECT FILES (1979 -2006)

SERIES XI. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE (1981-2005)

SERIES XII. RESTRICTED MATERIALS (1990-2005)

SERIES XIII. OVERSIZE MATERIALS (1984-2005)

SERIES I. GENERAL, HISTORY, AND PHOTOGRAPHS

SERIES II. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD (NACB)

SERIES III. NAWHERC ADMINISTRATION

SERIES IV. FINANCIAL MATERIALS

SERIES V. LAKE ANDES WOMEN'S LODGE

SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS

SERIES VII. PROGRAMS

SERIES VIII. PUBLICATIONS

SERIES IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS

SERIES X. SUBJECT FILES

SERIES XI. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE (YST)

SERIES XII. RESTRICTED MATERIALS

OVERSIZE MATERIALS

Acronyms

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records, 1986-2011

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Maida Goodwin.

Processing of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records was made possible by the generous support of the Peck Stacpoole Foundation.

2011

Collection Overview

Creator:Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
Title:Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records
Dates:1985-2011
Abstract: Women's health advocacy organization. The Records 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. Types of materials include correspondence, financial records, legal documents, news clippings, photographs, press releases, publications, studies and reports, and subject files.
Extent: 31 boxes(15 linear ft.)
Language: English
Identification: MS526

Administrative Information

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.

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

Processed by Maida Goodwin, 2011

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Records, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

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.

Periodic additions to collection are expected and may not be reflected in this record.

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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

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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.

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Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into thirteen series:

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SERIES I. GENERAL, HISTORY, AND PHOTOGRAPHS (1987-2006) .25 linear ft.

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) .5 linear ft.

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) 1.5 linear ft.

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) 1 linear ft

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) .25 linear ft.

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) 3.5 linear ft.

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.

The materials are arranged alphabetically.

SERIES VII. PROGRAMS (1987-2005) 3.5 linear ft.

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.

The materials are arranged alphabetically by program name.

SERIES VIII. PUBLICATIONS (1985-2008) .5 linear ft.

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.

SERIES IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS (1988-2005) 1.25 linear ft.

This series contains drafts, some correspondence and research materials, and final reports produced by NAWHERC regular and intern staff.

The materials are arranged alphabetically.

SERIES X. SUBJECT FILES (1979 -2006) 2 linear ft.

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

The materials are arranged alphabetically.

SERIES XI. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE (1981-2005) 1.5 linear ft.

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.

The materials are arranged alphabetically.

SERIES XII. RESTRICTED MATERIALS (1990-2005) .25 linear ft.

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) .25 linear ft.

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

Box
Folder
11
General 1988-2011, n.d.

2-3
News clippings 1988-2005, n.d.

4
Press release, 5 Jan 1995


Photographs

Box
Folder
15
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Slide Program, circa 1987

6
Grave site near White Swan, circa 1992

7
Native Women's Reproductive Health and Rights Roundtable, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Rights Coalition 2000

8
Unidentified, n.d.

SERIES II. NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY BOARD (NACB)


Box
Folder
19
General 1986-95

10
"Native American Community Board" paper by Marilyn Crovatin for POLS 670, 12 Dec 1995

11
Articles of incorporation and bylaws 1986

12
Job descriptions 1986-88, n.d.


Policies and procedures

13
General, n.d.

14
Personnel 1989, n.d.


Board of Directors

15
Rosters 2002

16-17
Minutes 1986, 1989-2003

18
Annual meeting, 18 Jan 1992

19
Correspondence 1991-2005


Financial materials

20
Employer ID number 1985-90

21
Forms and procedures, n.d.

22
Tax exempt status 1986-87, n.d.

Box
Folder
21-2
Balance sheet 1988, 1991-92

3-4
Financial statements 1989-91, 1996-2003

5
Annual Detail ledger 1991

6
General ledger, 30 Sep 1992

7-10
Income tax forms 1989-2004

11
Miscellaneous 1990-97

12
Proposals and miscellaneous 1986-87

SERIES III. NAWHERC ADMINISTRATION


Box
Folder
213
General 1990-93

14
Advisory Committee 1991

15
Calendars 1991-92


Correspondence


General

16-17
1987-89

Box
Folder
31-6
1990-2006, n.d.

7
Andes Central School District 1988-89

8
Boston Women's Health Book Collective 1988-96

9
Senator Tom Daschle nd. 1989-2003,

10
Sioux Falls Argus Leader 1988-89

11
Yankton Sioux Tribe 1989-96, n.d.

12
Equipment inventory 1993

13
Incident reports 1993-94


Interns

Box
Folder
314
General 1988-93, n.d.

15
Orientation manual by Amy Maher, Oct 1992

16
Job descriptions 1993, n.d.

27
Office forms, n.d.

18-19
Mailing lists 1999, n.d.

Box
Folder
41-2
Meeting notes, miscellaneous 1991-93, 1996, n.d.

3
National Cancer Institute data collection, Cervical Cancer video for Native Americans 1991

4-5
Notes, miscellaneous 1991, n.d.

6
Public Service Announcements 1996-99, n.d.

7-8
South Dakota Touring Arts Teams visits to Lake Andes 1992-93


Staff

Box
Folder
49
General 1982-91

10
Assignment sheets 1991-92

11-13
Meeting minutes 1991-93

14-16
Reports 1988-94

17
Retreat 1994

18
University of South Dakota, Nutrition Consultant Services 1992, n.d.

19
Valentine's Day Sobriety Dance, 14 Feb 1990

20
Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) contract 1989


Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

Box
Folder
51
General 1993-94

2
Orientation, May 1994

3-7
Weekly visits and calls totals 1988-92

8
The Winters Group, Women of Color Reproductive Health Care Study 1990-91, n.d.

9
Work notes 1994

10
Workshop evaluations 1989

SERIES IV. FINANCIAL MATERIALS


Box
Folder
511
General 1988-94, n.d.

12
Chart of Accounts 1993, n.d.

13
Funding sources 1984, n.d.

14
Kathleen Broken Rope Fund 1992, n.d.


Funding correspondence

15
General 1988-95, n.d.

16
Chief Illiniwek Education Foundation (CHIEF) controversy 1999

17
Domestic and Sexual Abuse (DASA) grant 1993-94


Funding Exchange, National Community Funds

18
1987-88

Box
Folder
61-3
1989-91

4
Innovations in State and Local Government Program (Ford Foundation and Kennedy School of Government) 1990

5-7
Joint Foundation Support, Inc. 1988-91

8
Needmor Fund 1988-89

9
Presbytery of the Northern Plains and Dakota Presbytery 1987-90

10
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 1988-91

11
Ruth Mott Fund 1987-89

12
Seventh Generation Fund 1988-90, n.d.

13
South Dakota Community Foundation 1988-90

14-15
South Dakota Department of Labor, Job Training Partnership Act 1990-92

16
Lyn Stephens 1990-92

17
Tides Foundation 1991-94

18
United Methodist Church 1988-89

19
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health 1989

20
Genevieve Vaughan 1988-90

21
Victims of Crime Assistance (VOCA) grant 1989-93


W. K. Kellogg Foundation


General

22
1987-88

Box
Folder
71-3
1989-93

4
Family/Community Cluster Network 1990

5-6
Networking and Evaluation Conferences 1988-90


Funding proposals

Box
Folder
77
Choices…A Domestic Violence Shelter Assistance Program, n.d.

8
Computer Program 1988

9
Ihanktonwan Healthy Communities and Environment Program, circa 1997

10
Melvin B. Bruguier Memorial Fast Pitch Tournament, n.d.

11
Native American Women's Leadership Development Program for Improving Community Health, n.d.

12
NAWHERC pilot project general funding, circa 1988

13
Rural Children and Community Computer and Internet Access Program, circa 1998

14
The Women's Lodge: A Domestic Violence Shelter Assistance Program, circa 1991

15
Reference file: sample proposals 1989-91

SERIES V. LAKE ANDES WOMEN'S LODGE


Box
Folder
716
General 1990-98, n.d.

17
Emergency Proposal "A Call to Fight Racism and Assaults Against Native American Women," n.d.

18
High Street: abstracts of title to land 1942-87


Zoning variance

19
Correspondence 1990-91

Box
Folder
81
Publicity 1990-91


NAWHERC vs. City of Lake Andes

2
Research and correspondence with Center for Constitutional Rights 1990-92, n.d.

3
Complaint, n.d.

4
Affirmations 1991

5-7
Trial transcript, Aug 1991 2 Aug 1991; 6-7

8
Judgement, 9 Aug 1991

SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS


Box
Folder
89
Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance, Northern Territory, Australia (AMSANT) 1994-96, n.d.

10
American Civil Liberties Union, Reproductive Rights Update 1994-95

11
American Friends Service Committee 1985

12
American Indian Community House 1999

13
American Indian Health Care Association 1992

Box
Folder
91
American Indian Organization, Winnebago 1986-92, n.d.

2
Asian Pacific Islanders for Reproductive Health 1991-93, n.d.

3
Black Hills Teton Sioux Nation 1995


Bureau of Indian Affairs

Box
Folder
94
Catholics for a Free Choice 1998

5
Center for Cultural Survival, Inc. 1992

6
Center for Reproductive Rights 2005

7
CHETNA, Gujarat, India 1993-94, n.d.


Dakota Round Table


Dakota Roundtable I 1993

8
General

9
Conference packet

10
Evaluations


A Report on the Status of Native American Youth in the Aberdeen Area

11
Draft

12
Published version


Dakota Roundtable II 1994


A Report on the Status of Native American Women in the Aberdeen Area

13
Draft

14
Published version


Dakota Roundtable III 1996

15
General

16
A Report on the Status of Young Native American Women in the Aberdeen Area

17-18
DoCIP (Indigenous Peoples Center for Documentation, Research and Information) 1996-2004

19
Federation of Feminist Women's Health Centers 1989-96

20
Fond du Lac Group Home 1996


Food and Drug Administration

Box
Folder
921
Four Worlds Development Project 1985-86

22
Friends Committee on National Legislation 1998

Box
Folder
101
Greenpeace/National Coalition for Health and Environmental Justice 1995-97

2
Grumin Indigenous Women Education Group 1996


Indian Health Service

Box
Folder
103
Indian Land Working Group 2003

4
Indian Youth of America 1989

5
Indigenous Environmental Network 1991-96

6
Interchange/Woman to Woman/Mujer a Mujer 1989, n.d.

7
International Women's Day Network 1991-92

8
Lake Andes Indian Education Committee 1989

9
Medical Students for Choice 1996

10
Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force 1992-96

11
Multicultural Women's Health Centre, Fremantle, Australia 1992

12
Native Action 2001

13
National Black Women's Health Project 1992-93, n.d.

14
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1998

15
National Congress of American Indians 1997, 2003

16
National Indian Health Board 1993

17
National Latina Health Organization/Organizacion Nacional de la Salud de la Mujer Latina 1987-88, 1995

18
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center 1989-91

19
National Resource Center on Domestic Violence 1997-98

20
National Rural Health Association 1988-89

21
National SIDS and Infant Death Program Support Center 1999

22
National Women's Health Network 1990-2005

23
Native Indian Crisses Center, Blackfeet Reservation, n.d.


Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition

24
Oglala Lakota Nation 1994-96

25
Peta Wakan Tipi 1994, n.d.

26
Planned Parenthood 1990-93

27
Positively Native 1993-96

28
Presbyterian Native American Caucus, n.d.

Box
Folder
111
Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, Women of Color Partnership Program 1988-91

2
Sacred Fire Lodge, n.d.


SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective

Box
Folder
113
National Conference 2003


Management Circle meetings

6
Native Women's Reproductive Health and Rights Roundtable 2001

7
South Dakota Advocacy Network for Women 1988-89


South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Box
Folder
118-9
General 1987-89, 1993-96

10
Calendar 1996

11
South Dakota Legislative Task Force to Study Abortion 2005

12
South Dakota Peace and Justice Center 1996

13
Southeastern South Dakota Health Resources Development Program 1991-92

14
Sustainable Native Agriculture Center (SNAC) 1988

15
Trickle Up Program 1992-93


United States Department of Health and Human Services

Box
Folder
1116
Miscellaneous departments 1989-2005

17
Food and Drug Administration 1992-95


Indian Health Service

Box
Folder
129
United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs 1992

10
Venceremos Brigade 1988-89

11
White Buffalo Calf Woman Society 1991

12
White Mountain Apache Tribe 1989

13
Women for a Meaningful Summit 1987/88

14
Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) 1988-94

15
Women of All Red Nations (WARN) 1992

16
Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights 2000-03

17
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom 1990-92

18
Wyan Omni ?Ciye 1987

19
Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization 1994

20
Yay Yukar no Mori 1995

21
Young Women's Voices 1990

22-23
Miscellaneous 1988-2005, n.d.

SERIES VII. PROGRAMS



AIDS Prevention and Awareness

Box
Folder
131
General 1988, n.d.

2
"The Impact of AIDS in the Native American Community" by Tracey Easthope and Charon Asetoyer, summer 1988


Proposals to foundations 1988-89

3
Drafts and background materials

4
Proposal and correspondence 1988

5
Proposal 1989

6
State of South Dakota contract, Jan 1989

7
Public Health Service funding proposal, Jun 1989

8
South Dakota Native American AIDS Task Force/Coalition Planning Meeting, 9 Nov 1989


Indian Health Service funding 1991-92

9
Proposals, contracts, and notes

10
Evaluation reports

11
Notes on meetings with Donna Haukass, AIDS Consultant 1992


HIV/AIDS Training Conference for Young Adults, Mar 1992

12
General

13
Training materials

14
Reservation workshops 1992

15
Second HIV/AIDS Gathering for Spiritual Leaders and Traditional Healers, 2-3 Jun 1992

16
HIV/AIDS Resource book: correspondence 1992

17
Indian Health Service funding 1993-94

18
Third HIV/AIDS Gathering for Spiritual Leaders and Traditional Healers, 11 Feb 1994


Child Development Program

Box
Folder
1319
General 1988-93, n.d.

20
"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

21
Draft

22
Published version


Early Childhood Development/Dakota Language Immersion Program (aka Dakota Language Revitalization Program)

Box
Folder
141
Support letters 2000

2
Curriculum versions 2000-01

3
Curriculum 2002

4
Year 1 Process Evaluation Report, 20 Dec 2002


Native American Language Revitalization and School Retention Program: proposal for Administration for Native Americans funding

Box
Folder
145
Original, 16 Mar 2001

6
Revisions, Jun-Jul 2001

7
Dakota Language Advisory Committee 2002

8
Colorectal Cancer Testing Campaign, Nov 1990


Diabetes Awareness and Nutrition Program

9
General, n.d.

10
"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

11
Proposal to U.S. Department of Justice 2002

12
Findings of the Specialized Domestic Violence Probation Project 2005


Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

13
Calendar and poster 1992

14
Slide program: script, circa 1987

15
Video: "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome…A Global Issue," sales 1987-88


Indigenous Women's Health Curriculum/Book

Box
Folder
151-3
Curriculum, Feb 2000

4-6
Curriculum, Jun 2001

7-9
Book, revision 11, n.d.


Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle: Reproductive Rights, Environmental Health, Traditional Herbs and Remedies 2003

10
Correspondence and notes 2000-03

11-12
Draft, n.d.

Box
Folder
161
Published book 2003


Native American Community Health Education and Awareness Program

Box
Folder
162
Annual Report to Funders 1990-91

3-6
Proposals 1988-92

7
Proposal notes and background, n.d.

8-10
Evaluation reports 1989-92


Native American Women's Leadership Development Training Program

Box
Folder
1611
General 1991-93, n.d.


"Expanding the Unfinished Agenda" on Health Issues Among Native Americans: proposal to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

12
19 Jun 1991

13
Revised proposal 1992


Advisory Committee

14
Membership 1993

15
Minutes and reports 1993

16
Evaluation report 1994


Native American Young Peoples Wellness Program (NAYPWP)

Box
Folder
171
General, n.d.

2
Curriculum proposal 1995

3
"Curriculum of Workshops" 1999

4
Family Violence Survey 2005

5
"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

6
Aug 2001

7-9
Drafts 2001

10
Questionnaires 2003

11
Sales data 2002-03

12
Statistics/data, n.d.

13
Year Two Evaluation Report [page 1 missing] 1998

14
Year Three Evaluation Report, Jul 2000


Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition

Box
Folder
181
General 1991

2
Cervical cancer video survey 1991

3
Funding 1991, n.d.

4-8
Meetings 1990-93


Conferences

9
Empowerment Through Dialogue: Native American Women and Reproductive Rights, 16-18 May 1990

10
Native Women's Reproductive Rights Conference, 31 Jul 1990


Second Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition Conference, 17-19 Jan 1993

11
General

12
Daycare

13
Evaluations

14
Mailings

15
Speakers

16
Third Native Women's Reproductive Rights Coalition Conference planning materials 1994:

17
Native Women's Reproductive Rights Agenda (developed at the Empowerment Through Dialogue conference 1990)

18
Report on the Proposal Review, George Gund Foundation 1994


Stop Smoking in Indian Country Campaign, 1993

Box
Folder
1819
General

20
Printed materials

21
Public Service Announcements 1993

22
Miscellaneous 1989, 2005, n.d.

SERIES VIII. PUBLICATIONS


Box
Folder
191
Lists and order forms 2008-09, n.d.


Brochures and fact sheets

2
NAWHERC general brochures, n.d.

3
Cancer, n.d.

4
Contraception, n.d.

5
Contraception: research and drafts 1985-2005, n.d.

6
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault 1995, n.d.

7
Environment, n.d.

8
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, n.d.

9
Gay and Lesbian, n.d.

10
Health, miscellaneous 1999, n.d.

11
HIV/AIDS 1992, n.d.

12
Nutrition and Diabetes 1999, n.d.

13
Reproductive Health and Pregnancy 1997, n.d.

14
Reproductive Health and Rights Agenda 1990, 2000

15
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, n.d.

16
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

17-19
General, correspondence, and contract

20
Artwork by J.R. Rouse 1990

21
"Healthy Choices on the Road"

22
"Less Fat is Easy"

23
"Traditional Food Can Be Healthy"

24
"Why All the Talk About Fiber?"

25-26
Wicozanni Wowapi Good Health Newsletter 1985-2004

27
"Women's Reproductive Health and Rights" from NAWHERC Web site, circa 2005

28
Newsletter notes and drafts, n.d.

SERIES IX. STUDIES AND REPORTS


Box
Folder
201
"Community Survey Report and Evaluation of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Programs and Services" by Chelsea Harper, Nov 1997

2
"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

3
Report

4-6
Research materials

7
"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

8
"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

9
Report # 1, "The Current Status of Indian Health Service's Reproductive Health Care" 1999

10
Report #2, "Young Native American Women's Knowledge of Reproductive Tract Infections" 1999

11
"Health Survey for the Yankton Sioux Reservation Community," Leslie Boyd, Nov 1993


"The Impact of Norplant in the Native American Community"

12
Report by Natasha Lowry and Charon Asetoyer, Jun 1992

13
Drafts and correspondence 1991-92

14
Interviews, spring 1992

15
Norplant Project interviews, Tiya Miles, fall 1992


"Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights/Justice" series

Box


21
"The Indian Health Service and Its Inconsistent Application of the Hyde Amendment," by Kati Schindler, Anna E. Jackson, and Charon Asetoyer, Oct 2002

1
Report

2
Mailing lists for distribution of paper

3
"Roundtable Report on Access to Abortion Services Through the Indian Health Service Under the Hyde Amendment," Apr 2003

4
"A Survey of Sexual Assault Policies and Protocols Within Indian Health Service Emergency Rooms," by Julie Andrews, Bryony Heise, and Charon Asetoyer, Jan 2005

5
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

Box
Folder
216
Report

7
Drafts and notes


"Radon in My Community: The Impact of Radon In the Yankton Sioux Communities," Michele Dickson, 1992

Box
Folder
218-9
Report

10
Drafts and notes

11
"Recycling or Alleged Recycling? A Review of the Hydromex Waste Processing System," Heather Gilbert 1994

12
"Report on and Analysis of the Yankton Sioux Reservation Community Health Fairs: " Linda Appel, 1994 Winter 1993-94,

13
"A Report on Southern Missouri Waste Management Association's Proposed Landfill Project in the Lake Andes Area, South Dakota," Sia Lindstrom 1993

14
"Report on the Southern Missouri Recycling and Waste Management District's Operations," Patricia Bachmann, 12 Mar 1998

15
"Revictimizing the Battered: An Investigation of the Charles Mix County Criminal Justice System's Management of Domestic Violence Cases," Halle Liza Gafori 1994

16
"A Review of the Use and Effects of Depo-Provera on Native American Women"by Ellen Chen and Charon Asetoyer, summer 1995

17
"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"

Box
Folder
2118
Report and revised report by Lin Krust and Charon Asetoyer, Jul 1993

19
Questionnaires, Naomi Sunshine, spring 1993

Box
Folder
221
Protocol notes 1993

2
"A Survey of the Indian Health Service Abortion Policy and Its Application by Indian Health Service Units," by Kati Schindler, Jul 2002

3
"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

4
Yankton Sioux Health Report draft (Amy) 1994

SERIES X. SUBJECT FILES


Box
Folder
225
Abortion 1990-91, n.d.

6
Adolescent health 1991, n.d.


AIDS

7-8
Native Americans 1989-96

9
Training for Cultural Competence in the HIV Epidemic 1992-93

10
Women 1987-96


Alcohol and drug dependency

11
General 1985-97

12
Cocaine babies 1988-91

13
Fetal alcohol syndrome 1981-92

14
Inhalants 1991, n.d.


Birth Control

15
General 1987-95, n.d.

16
Norplant 1990-95, n.d.

Box
Folder
231
Body composition measurement 1993-94, n.d.


Cancer

Box
Folder
232
General 1994-96, n.d.

3
Breast cancer 1990-96, n.d.

4
Child welfare and abuse 1989-95

5
Children's health 1979, n.d.

6
Children's rights 1984

7
Cholesterol 1989-93, n.d.

8
Colleges and universities 1985, n.d.

9-11
Diabetes and nutrition 1983-98, n.d.

12
Diarrhea-Oral rehydration therapy 1979-91, n.d.


Domestic violence and sexual assault

Box
Folder
2313
General 1985-99, n.d.

14
South Dakota Victim Services Directory 1985-99, n.d.

15
Support group materials 1985-97, n.d.

16
Training 1997, n.d.

17
Elderly 1996-98, n.d.

18
Electro-magnetic fields, n.d.


Environment/Environmental Justice

Box
Folder
2319
General 1990-2004

Box
Folder
241
General (cont'd) 1990-2004

2
Contaminants and reproductive health 1980-93

3
Hepatitis vaccine experiment, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 1990

4
Housing and homelessness 1987-92

5
Indian News, Bureau of Indian Affairs newsletter 1991-93

6
Lead exposure, occupational 1997-98


Native American

Box


24
Culture and issues

7-10
General 1981-96, n.d.

11
Boarding school interviews 1998

12
Casinos 1984-92

13
Dakota culture: Seven Council Fires, n.d.

14
Education 1991-95


Health

15
General 1989-97

16
Treatment programs 1998, n.d.


Tribal health resources

17
Nebraska, n.d.


South Dakota

18
General 1993, n.d.

19
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, n.d.

20
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe 1989

Box
Folder
251
World Health Organization Participatory Research Management Guidelines: draft 2002

2
Resources/Organizations 1986-98

3
Nuclear waste 1994-97, n.d.

4
Racism 1988-96, n.d.


Reproductive health

Box
Folder
255
General 1988-98

6
Catholic Church 1994-98, n.d.

7
Childbirth picture book, n.d.

8
Reproductive rights 1984-92, n.d.

9
Rural health issues 1989

10
Self-help OB/GYN 1979-94, n.d.

11
Sexually transmitted diseases 1984-96, n.d.

12
Smoking 1990

13
Sterilization 1994-2000, n.d.

14
South Dakota voting rights 2006

15
Teen pregnancy prevention 1997, n.d.

16
Teen suicide, n.d.

17
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 1997, n.d.

18
Traditional healing 1988

Box
Folder
261
Women of color and health 1990-98, n.d.

2
Women's health 1991-95, n.d.

3
Miscellaneous 1994, n.d.


HoHHH

SERIES XI. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE (YST)



General and History

Box
Folder
264-5
General 1982-2000, n.d.

6
Gravesite near White Swan 1991-92

7
Sioux history 1934-94, n.d.

8
Yankton Sioux history 1967-96, n.d.

9
Domestic Abuse Code, n.d.

10
Domestic Violence Probation Officer, n.d.

11
First American Footwear Corporation 1992

12
Fort Randall Casino 1991-92

13
Healthy Start Program 1990-93, n.d.


"Jurisidiction Case" Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Gaffey

14
General 1998-2004

15
Memorandum Opinion and Order 1998

16
Appeal 1999


Landfill

17
General 1991-97, n.d.

18
Fact sheets and newspaper clippings 1993-95, n.d.


Environmental Protection Agency

19
General 1995-96

Box
Folder
271
"EPA Hearings, Lake Andes Proposed Landfill " by Charon Asetoyer 1/24/96


Legal

2
South Dakota v. Greger: Appeal 1997

3
South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe reports on decision, Jan 1998

4
Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Southern Missouri Solid Waste


Management District and Southern Missouri Solid Waste


Management District v. State of South Dakota 1995-96

5
Reference file on landfills 1993-97, n.d.

6
Reference file on watersheds 1992-96, n.d.


Southern Missouri Solid Waste Management Association

7
General 1997-98

8
Grant applications 1994

9
Permit application 1993

10
Revised permit 1996

11
Site Characterization Study for Solid Waste Landfill, Jan and Jul 1993

12
Veterans Administration/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill 1997-98


Voices Organized to Save the Environment (VOTE)

13
General 1993-94, n.d.

14
"Report on Southern Missouri Waste Management Association's Proposed Landfill Project" by Sia Lindstrom, Jun 1993

Box
Folder
281
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

Box
Folder
282
Lake Andes police/jail issues and boycott 1989-2004, n.d.

3
Charles Mix County Jail conditions 2003-04

4
Marina (proposed) at Fort Randall dam 1993

5
Northern Plains Native Nations Treaty Council meeting 1996

6
Operation Eagle 1983

7
Pesticides Code, n.d.

8
Potential funding sources 1996, n.d.

9
Recycling Curriculum, circa 1997


"Redistricting Case" Blackmoon et al v. Charles Mix County

Box
Folder
2810-11
General 2005

12
Ward II 2001-05

13
Andes Central School District boundaries 2005

14
"Remains Case" Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Corps of Engineers 1999-2000


Schools

Box
Folder
2815
General 1988-91, n.d.


Marty Indian School

16
Infirmary 1989-90

17
Grant application, "Seventh Generation Council Striving for Sobriety by the Year" 1990 2000,

18
Lead poisoning 1996-97

19
Fly-ash report 1997

21
South Dakota Equal Justice Commission 2005

Box
Folder
291
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council Report

2
Tribal Youth Program 2001


United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota Development Corporation

Box
Folder
293-4
Energy Transportation Systems, Inc. 1981

5
Pick-Sloan Power 1981-82

6
Threat Package 1982

SERIES XII. RESTRICTED MATERIALS


Box
Folder
301-5
Interns 1990-95, 2005

6
Staff evaluations -

7
Computer disks containing slide presentations and reports 1992-2005

OVERSIZE MATERIALS



City of Lake Andes zoning map, 1984; and posters and newsletters two AIDS prevention posters from Cameroon, n.d. 1993-2005, 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

Acronyms

DLRP = Dakota Language Revitalization Project

DOCIP= Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Documentation

ESF = Eagle Staff Fund, First Nations Development Institute

FAS = Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

FNDI = First Nations Development Institute

Ford Foundation Project = 2-year project to incorporate women of color issues & concerns into local, national, and international population and development agenda, Jun 1993-Jun 1995, also known as "US Women of Color Delegation"

ICPD = International Conference on Population and Development NGO Forum 94, Cairo, Egypt

IHS = Indian Health Service

NACB = Native American Community Board

NAWHERC = Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

NAYPWP = Native American Young People's Wellness Program

PHS = Public Health Service, US Dept of Health and Human Services

PIPES = People in Prison Entering Sobriety

U.S. Women of Color Delegation [see Ford Foundation Project]

WGIP = Working Group on Indigenous Populations, World Health Organization

WOC = Women of Color

WOCCRHR = Women of Color Coalition for Reproductive Health & Rights (aka Women of Color Coalition)

YAC= Youth Advisory Council of the NAYPWP

YST = Yankton Sioux Tribe

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