The Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University announces a new publication, Indian Contract School: A Procedural and Resource Guide for Communities, by Jack Gregory and Bob Cooper. The book outlines key considerations in planning and implementing a contract school. Selected chapters in the 212-page document include: Defining a Contract School, Who May Contract for a School, Setting Up a Community Education Organization, Designing the Educational Policy and Curriculum, Determining the Staff, etc.

Price of the publication is $4.50 and can be purchased directly from the Center' for Indian Education, Farmer Building - Ed 302, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281.

Hamlin Garlands Observations on the American Indians, a collection of essays covering the years 1895 through 1905, has been published by the University of Arizona Press. The writings are based on Garland's extensive travels among the Indian peoples on reservations throughout the West.

In one essay Garland wrote: "It is not a question of ceasing to become an Indian. It is a question of ceasing to be a free man, equal to any in privileges in order to become poor cowboys, ranchers eating at the third table of the white man--hired men and renters. So it is that many of them persist in being Indians in rags rather than cowboys in denim."

The 192-page work comes in two versions: soft cover, $4.95, and clothbound, $9.95. Available at bookstores or write University of Arizona Press, Box 3398, Tucson, AZ 85722.

The Central Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs has compiled a bibliographical source book for educators. While the intent of the bibliography is to provide a more comprehensive compilation of American Indian materials to serve as a reference for students, teachers, researchers and others, it should be understood that, because no attempt was made to select and evaluate materials included in the document, the reader's own discretion will be the determining factor with regard to the quality and nature of the material.

For copies, write to: Indian Education Resources Center, P. 0. Box 1788, Albuquerque, NM 87103.

Treaty Series Republished. The Solicitor's Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior has republished Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Volumes 1-5. The series covers treaties, statutes, and executive orders through 1938. Price for the five-volume set is $75.00 and should be ordered by stock number 24-000-817-7 and catalog number Y4, IN2-2:144 Vols. 1-5. Orders for new volumes supplementing the reprint volumes will be available at a later date. Write to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.

The Navajo Community College Press has several new publications out this past summer. One of the most attractively illustrated (black and white photos or line drawings by Raymond Johnson and Hoke Denetsosie) is Stories of Traditional Navajo Life and Culture by 22 Navajo Men and Women. Broderick Johnson, editor and director of the NCCP, has again put together a good reference volume for the book shelves of those interested in the American Indian and Indian education. Cost is $9.95 and may be ordered from the Navajo Community College Press, 325 E. Southern Ave., Suite 11, Tempe, AZ 85282. Publication was made possible through a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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