This series consists of three programs dealing with counseling and psychological issues pertaining particularly to first nations/indigenous persons: their relation to their traditions; their separateness; their cultural development.

INDIGENOUS VOICES: Witnessing the Wisdom of Our Elders
Jean Chin, Teresa LaFromboise, Thomas Parham, Joseph Trimble, and Melba Vasquez - Powerful and inspiring, these pioneers paved the way for others with their tireless work to advance the field of multicultural counseling and psychology. Their stories of their upbringing, their work in counseling psychology, and their words of wisdom will inspire us all. 120 minutes

MENTORING ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS TO SUCCEED IN A WHITE GRADUATE PROGRAM with Carolyn Barkus
This presentation highlights the life journey of the author from her reservation home to her current position of elder and mentor to ethnic minority graduate students. Carolyn shares her lessons learned in twenty six years of training and mentoring American Indian and other ethnic minority graduate students to become psychologists. Those who return to serve ethnic minority communities are encouraged to focus on "being" rather than "doing". 48 minutes

NATIVE IMPLOSION OF A RACIAL/CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT MODEL with Jill Hill and Rocky Robbins
Having interviewed a Native American sun dancer four times about his racial/cultural identity development, Robbins and Hill analyze the resulting data in its relation to existing racial/cultural models. Upon seeing incongruities between the stages set forth by existing models and the stages that the participant discussed, the researchers use his stories to implode previously proposed stages. A new Native American developmental model is created based on the data derived from the study. Though it is somewhat limited at this point, values that Native Americans value in general, such as circularity, humor, and perserverance become the basis for future work on this model. 54 minutes

*Programs are available separately