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...... With the passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act in the mid 1970s, tribes began to manage their own affairs and have some positive effect on library development on reservations. In 1994, Congress passed the Tribal Self-Governance Act which allowed tribes to negotiate annual funding agreements, permitting them to have greater involvement in program management and operation. Tribes now have the ability to plan and set priorities for themselves. In many cases having a library is high on their list of things that they would like to have. Unfortunately, libraries must compete for scarce funds. They have to compete with roads, utilities, and other basic services on reservations. In those places where libraries do exist, most are staffed by non-degreed personnel who often have little or no training in operating a library. Even in the cases where there are professional librarians available, tribes generally cannot afford to pay adequate salaries to attract qualified personnel. This leaves large segments of native people on reservations without adequate library services (Patterson, n.d.)
Tribal libraries are a relatively recent development. No reliable history of them has ever been written, but it is widely known that, as early as 1958, the Colorado

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