Designed as a stimulus for American Indian educational development, these examples of community development programs among the Southwestern Indians are presented via the case study approach in the interest of analyzation of both positive and negative experiences. Specifically, this book presents case studies of: (1) the Round Rock School on the Navajo reservation (emphasis upon the successful development of the school during its first three years, 1952-56, via community involvement and community decision making); (2) the Low Mountain community on the Navajo reservation (a 1955-56 community development project impeded by removal of catalytic agents, including a report by the Low Mountain people detailing their achievements and their petition for a boarding school, weekly and monthly Navajo Agency reports, and correspondence between Federal and community representatives); (3) the San Carlos Apache Community Development Projects (three examples of highly successful community development projects, as reported in activity reports prepared by a community worker from the Indian Health Service, including program problems, approaches, activities, and evaluations relative to: a hospital auxiliary in 1958, a summer work program for girls in 1960, and the 1960 Peridot Water Project). (JC)