UAA's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) recently completed its work entitled the "Status of Alaska Natives Report 2004." AFN wanted the updated statistics to be shared with the Alaska Native community, and it wanted to know what the Native community thinks about the data. Accordingly, AFN contracted with the First Alaskans Institute's Alaska Native Policy Center in a knowledge development effort to: bring ISER's updated statistics back to the Native community in order to get feedback from Native
people on what the data mean and what actions can be taken to improve the statistics; and write and publish an analysis of the 2004
statistics from a Native point of view, for a Native audience. The Policy Center made 20 formal presentations of data to over 1400 participants in meetings held in seven regions. The facts and findings published here are based on the data, discussions, and feedback from these meetings.
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This report was prepared with funding from the Alaska Federation of Natives utilizing grant monies from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.