"Since 1994, Hall has served as director and principal investigator of TTAP, leading a program that meets the training, technical assistance, and technology transfer needs of tribal transportation programs in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. He develops and conducts transportation-related training to tribes and to federal, state, and local partners and has coordinated the National Tribal Transportation Conference since 1998. "I care about the safety and security of each child going to school and about each bureaucrat, tribal politician, and rancher or business person who drives to work each day," he observes. Safety is paramount, he adds; highway fatalities are the leading cause of death for Native American people, especially youth. Hall addresses such topics in his research as transportation issues on tribal land, communication between transportation agencies and tribal communities, and environmental research needs in transportation. Helping at home is a constant theme for the Native Americans in this book. That core theme is the driving force in their lives. Each Chapter Author has a commitment to improving the transportation infrastructure of tribal lands and communities through tribal self-determination. It is equally compelling to note that helping at home is not an easy task, and while Native communities are unique in many ways, local resistance to change is virtually universal. Improving local conditions means change. Change is di cult to accomplish even when the end result is a dramatic improvement to the quality of life for the people you love and cherish. Tribal Transportation: Native American Pro les is a collection of stories from tribal leaders who embraced change. Their collective stories are also an invitation to future tribal leaders- Grandfather says this: "You did not ask to be born, but you are here. You have weaknesses as well as strengths. You have both because in life there is two of everything. Within you is the will to win, as well as the willingness to lose. Within you is the heart to feel compassion as well as the smallness to be arrogant. Within you is the way to face life as well as the fear to turn away. The weakest step toward the top of the hill, toward sunrise, toward hope, is stronger than the ercest storm. Keep going." --by Joseph M. Marshall III, Keep Going, (Sterling Publishing Co., 2006)"