Native Teacher Program

Barbara King, M.S.W.
The College of St. Scholastica
Department of History, Politics and Culture
Office: Tower 3109 a Phone: (218) 723-6170
e-mail: bking@css.edu

Barbara King (M.S.W., University of Utah, 1976) is assistant professor of American Indian History at the College of St. Scholastica. Before joining the St. Scholastica faculty in 1985, she taught at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, School of Social Development. While at UMD she was Chair, undergraduate Social Work Program from 1983-1985 and Project Administrator, American Indian Program, School of Social Development, 1977 - 1985. She served as the school liaison to Region V Child Welfare Training Center and administered a federally funded grant to provide skill training for American Indians. Development of workshops included evaluation design, public speaking and financial aids for American Indians. Within the School she directed intensive staff training sessions, supervised community program assistants, and provided student advisement and field supervision. She developed a continuing education program for American Indians, recruited American Indian students and established working relations with community American Indian advisory boards. In 1977 she worked for the Menominee Restoration Committee, Keshena, WI as their Director, Tribal Social Services. There she served as the Community Liaison and as an advocate for Menominee Indians to insure that all services to which they were eligible were being provided on a timely basis. She also assisted in the preservation of tribal mores and provide general social service consultation, crisis intervention, diagnostic interviewing and family counseling.

Professionally she has been recognized by the Ohoyo 1982 Resource Guide of American Indian-Alaska Native Women, received a Council on Social Work Education Fellowship and a National Institute of Mental Health Stipend. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Humanities Commission, Woodland Hills and the Minnesota Conference on Social Work Education.

Other professional activities include a presentation before the Bureau of Indian Affairs; "A New Horizon--A Planning Conference for Professionals working with Indian Families and Children in the '90's. Billings, MT.

Council on Social Work Education, St. Louis, MO As a Commission on Minority Group Concerns member conducted two sessions, What Authors Should Know About Publishing in Professional Journals and Educating for Socially Responsible Practice with Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

Council on Social Work Education, St. Louis, MO As a Commission on Minority Group Concerns member conducted two sessions, What Authors Should Know About Publishing in Professional Journals and Educating for Socially Responsible Practice with Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

Creative Learning, Inc., Boston, MA Selected to represent the National Association of Social Workers in the project to Develop Networks and Collaborative Relationships to Improve Permanency for Children Through Training of Trainers

National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C. Paper presented entitled The Effect of Higher Social Work Education on American Indian Women (co-author Rosalie Clark)

Publications include coauthorship of:

"The Social Development Role in Reservation Mental Health," Indian Mental Health Curriculum Module in working with Urban American Indian Families, American Indian Projects, Arizona State.

"Using Education for Social Change with Reservation Indians," Rural Areas: Issues and Opportunities, University of Wyoming.

Publisher of Migwich Gi Chi Mindo, Reflections on Indian Life by Ike Greensky.