Kawagley, Angayuqaq Oscar

Social and Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1993.

Describes the Yupiaq beliefs and their need to balance new technology and education with their own culture and environment.

Looks at Indigenous education in Alaska, and discusses the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI), which focuses on the connection between Indigenous Knowledge systems and formal education systems.

Discusses the need for an educational process that accepts and integrates the diversity in Indigenous worldviews, knowledge and systems central to ways of viewing and relating to the world.

Examination of various perceptions held by individuals and how they can become skewed between cultures. Advocates mingling Indigenous and non-Indigenous values for a more sustainable future.