One American Indian teen-ager continues to love her reservation despite its poor conditions, but she would never live there. To another American Indian teen-ager of another tribe, the reservation will always be home. "It's the older people in the community that are running the tribal government, and those are the ones who are the wealthy ones," said Cherith Crazy Boy Smith, a 17-year-old membe

Cherith Crazy Boy Smith does not put on warpaint and feathers, then chase down trains, shoot at the passengers with her bow and arrow, and scalp everyone aboard after she forces the train to stop. She's a 17-year-old member of the Piegan Blackfoot tribe who says that most Americans have no idea what American Indians are like. She can tell you, however, that they're nothing like they're depict

For information To find out more about Futures for Children or how to sponsor a child, call or write at: Futures for Children 805 Tijeras Street, N.W. Albuquerque, N.M. 87102 (800) 545-6843 or (505 ) 247-4700 People everywhere will do remarkable things when asked to work together for their children's future. Turning words into actions was Dr. Richard P. Saunders' goal in 1961, when he started F

Lie most cities in America, the Zuni Indian Reservation on the New Mexico-Arizona border has a gang problem. Thirteen-year-old Feather Lewis is terrified of the dropouts who still hang around her school. Last summer, she told Children's Express of her vivid experiences: Here, they have gangs. There's fights every day at school. That's what I don't like about it. . . . They go around everywhere

Zuni, N.M. - While we may smile when we see a father carrying a child on his shoulders, the Zuni Pueblo tribe considers it bad luck. That's one of the many Zuni beliefs we learned about when we visited the tribe last summer. The Zuni believe that sleeping with your shoes on is bad luck, as is playing outside after dark. Although kids in the tribe live by these rules, they say they don't unders