Hopelessness is central to prominent mental health problems within
American Indian (AI) communities. Apaches living on a reservation in Arizona
responded to diverse expressions of hope along with Hopelessness, Personal
Self-Esteem, and Collective Self-Esteem scales. An Apache Hopefulness Scale
expressed fi ve themes of hope and correlated negatively with Hopelessness and
positively with both Collective and Personal Self-Esteem. These data confi rmed
the potential of conducting more extensive analyses of hope within AI tribal life.