In the first book of its kind, experts describe how to help people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A summary of recent findings and recommendations is presented by the team who conducted the largest study ever done on people of all ages with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects. Twenty-one experts from the fields of human services, education, and criminal justice respond by describing their solutions to this problem of a birth defect that targets the brain and has lifelong consequences.

Some of the most crippling secondary disabilities that people with FAS/FAE face include mental health problems, disrupted school experience, inappropriate sexual behavior, trouble with the law, alcohol and drug problems, difficulty caring for their children, and homelessness.

This book acknowledges the diverse and multifaceted needs of people with FAS/FAE across the lifespan. It will be valuable for parents and the many professionals working with people with FAS/FAE.

Twelve-year-old Morning Girl and her younger brother, Star Boy, alternate chapters in this remarkable novel for young readers. Set on a Bahamian island in 1492, this is the story of a Taino family bound together by respect, humor, and tradition. As Morning Girl and Star Boy work their way through the inevitable complications of growing up, they learn to cope with both sadness and joy and emerge as rich, original characters. Theirs was a vibrant community that valued inner strength over warfare, that strove to coexist with the natural world rather than to dominate it, that expected visitors to be less dangerous than interesting. All is as it should be, as it’s always been, until the day when Morning Girl goes out for a swim and sees a fat canoe, packed with oddly dressed strangers, rowing toward shore. Morning Girl tries not to laugh -- she’s been instructed in the value of politeness -- and invites the visitors to land. For too long a veil of anonymity has obscured the humanity of those fifteenth-century Native Americans who welcomed Columbus and with Morning Girl, Michael Dorris offers a poignant fictional perspective on their fascinating society.

Michael Dorris was trained as an anthropologist. He is the author of Sees No Trees, The Window, and Guests for children, as well as many fiction and nonfiction works for adults.

No matter how hard he tries, Walnut doesn’t see as well as others do. So when he and the other boys of his tribe must prove they’re ready to be adults by the accuracy of their arrow shooting, Walnut’s worried. How can he hit a target that he can’t even see? But at the ceremony, the boys are first asked to listen to the woods and “see” what can’t be seen. With the practiced use of his other senses, Walnut earns the respect of his people, as well as his adult name: Sees Behind Trees. In turns lyrical, wise, and funny, this compelling novel, set in sixteenth-century America, tells the story of how one boy learns to turn a handicap into an advantage as he crosses the often blurred boundaries between being a child and becoming a man.

Michael Dorris is the best-selling author of several acclaimed books for both adults and children, including Morning Girl, winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and Guests, an ALA Notable Children’s Book.

An engaging and masterful collection of essays that vividly captures the author's diverse work as award-winning writer, activist, parent, scholar, professor, anthropologist, critic, and traveler.

The celebrated author of the bestselling A Yellow Raft in Blue Water dazzles readers once again with his newest work of fiction, a collection of 14 beautifully crafted short stories, each one about a working man. 50,000 sold in hardcover. "First rate collection".--Publishers Weekly.

The controversial national bestseller that received unprecedented media attention, sparked the nation's interest in the plight of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and touched a nerve in all of us. Winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award.

"Charles Eastman, in collaboration with his wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, has assembled in this collection a composite, condensed sampling of his tribe's values, and presents them in a language that is at once direct and engaging. To say these allegories are 'wise' begs the question; they are the distilled conclusions of generations upon generations of Plains society and point to the essence of what it is to be a decent, thoughtful, respectable human being-a Sioux Tao told in prose a child of any culture, of any time, can comprehend." Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) (1858-1939) was a mixed-blood Sioux who became one of the best-known Indians of his time. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth and a medical degree from Boston University. From his first appointment as a physician at Pine Ridge Agency; where he witnessed the events that culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre, he sought to bring understanding between Native and non-Native Americans. He wrote eleven books, some, such as Sister to the Sioux (also available as a Bison Book), in collaboration with Elaine Goodale Eastman. His From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian, Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, Old Indian Days, and The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation are all available as Bison Books.

Ten years after his "dazzling" (San Francisco Chronicle), "unforgettable" (Newsday) bestselling debut novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris returns to the family at the core of that work to write the rich score of the "full-blown, complex opera of his new novel, Cloud Chamber" (Robb Forman Dew).

Opening in late-nineteenth-century Ireland and moving to Kentucky and finally to the high plains of Montana, Cloud Chamber tells the extraordinary tale of Rose Mannion and her descendants. Over a period of more than one hundred years, Rose's legacy of love and betrayal is passed down from generation to generation until it meets the promise of reconciliation in Rayona, the indomitable part-black, part Native American teenage girl at the center of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water.

Cloud Chamber is truly a tour de force, a powerful, rich tale about the energy and persistence of love.