Institute of the American Indian

The Institute of the American Indian will serve as a center for education. Education for the understanding of the relationship between the Indian and other American cultures. To often, as has been the case with the Indian and other American cultures one culture (the Euro- American culture) has forced its ideas or perspectives of life on the other culture (Indian culture). This has been done without understanding the Indian culture.

The Institute will help to introduce the culture of the Indians to other peoples. This introduction will be based on the history and perspective of the Indians themselves - not on that of the white or Anglo Saxon/European cultures as has been the tendency in the past. The Institute will be forward looking, helping to establish a method by which the groups can live together without the sense of wardship that exists today.