How Can Tribes Relate to Off-Reservation Citizens Better? Study Aims to Help

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How do you define “home?”

“Home is where one starts from” is one explanation, while another states, “Our feet may leave home, but not our hearts.”

Where you call home is especially important to Native Americans who have left the familiarity of where they grew up among fellow tribal members and moved to urban areas. How they stay connected with their past and what efforts their tribes make to stay in touch is the genesis of a recent pilot study on young adult tribal citizens living off the reservation...

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Allen, Lee. "How Can Tribes Relate to Off-Reservation Citizens Better? Study Aims to Help." Indian Country Today. July 28, 2015. Article. (https://ictnews.org/archive/how-can-tribes-relate-to-off-reservation-citizens-better-study-aims-to-help, accessed July 18, 2023)

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