This report builds on the information presented in Part One and takes a deeper look at health, economics, child welfare, incarceration and job training, among other topics, in the American Indian community. The data used in this report is primarily Hennepin County administrative data and public data from the State of Minnesota and other agencies.

Report Four identifies strengths and assets that have allowed American Indian families to succeed despite barriers and disparities in well-being.

"Examination of the post-WWII international phenomenon of governments legally taking indigenous children away from their primary families and placing them with adoptive parents in the U.S., Canada, and Australia"--

In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, AIM organizers and local Native parents started their own community school. The story of these schools, unfolding through the voices of activists, teachers, and families, is also a history of AIM's founding and community organizing--and evidence of its long-term effect on Indian people's lives.