In the 1990s, studies have documented widespread growth of immigrants in US
communities not known as common destinations in the past. This trend has fueled …

Rural schools face the challenges of motivating and retaining students, often in the face of
severe resource constraints. This paper synthesizes fifteen years of the author's rural …

Scholars have long documented widespread aging and depopulation of rural communities
in the Great Plains. Paralleling these trends is the emergence, growth, and spatial …

Since the late 1980s, the commercial gaming industry has grown rapidly on American Indian
reservations. Today, more than 200 Indian nations own more than 400 gaming operations in …

One of the most significant problems facing Native American communities today is their poor
economic situation. 1 Economic well-being is a keystone, and its presence or absence …

Both systematic research on motivation in rural schools, and research on motivation of
American Indian Native students are scarce. Research comparing the motivational …

are higher and more persistent in rural areas (Adams and Duncan 1992; Summers et al.
1993; Iceland 2003), and research suggests poverty rates increase as rural areas become …

In his seminal book, Fredrick barth (1969) suggested mutual selfawareness as a critical
feature that formed the substance of racial-ethnic identity. such self-awareness, according to …

There is abundant research that focuses on the causes and consequences of poverty in
rural areas, and on the factors that ameliorate rural poverty. While a comprehensive review …

Sometime over the past couple of years, during the many months of presidential
campaigning and all the small town stops, through the health care politicking and the birth of …