One of the most sobering realizations about career
counseling with Native youth is that almost no research
has been done on Native career development––we do not
even know to what extent the term “career” is culturally
sensible to Native people. Working formulations conducted
by the author and several graduate students
(MacNeill, 1994; Peavy, 1993, 1994) has led to some working
formulations about the concept of career with Native
clients