Looks at the process of selecting models, identifies challenges and successes associated with planning, and discusses tribal culture's influence on successful implementation.
Looks at several authors: Sherman Alexie, Janet Campbell Hale, Simon Ortiz, James Welch, and Gerald Vizenor.
Accompanying material.
Presentation compiled for conference Revisiting Indian Nations: Transatlantic and Transcultural Perspectives in Native American History, Tutzing, February 6-8, 2009.
National Research Symposium on Limited English Proficient Student Issues ; 3rd
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Edward A. Tennant
Description
Describes a cultural awareness program that uses weekly bulletins to alert teachers to contrasting cultural values and a course for high-school students that teaches them how to recognize and cope with contrasting cultural values.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 21, no. 2, Summer, 2009, pp. 50-70
Description
Discusses mourning feast customs in the novel and how the author changes several of them.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to page 50.
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 1976, pp. 163-185
Description
Reviews the United States educational policy that aimed to prepare Native Americans for "citizenship and civilization" initially provided support for boarding and separate day schools and later for public school education.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, pp. 42-43
Description
Presents a short story titled, The Fishing Trip, written by a student of the Blackfeet Community College in Browning, Montana.
American Antiquity, vol. 74, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 279-298
Description
Study sums up that, even though there were wide variations in environmental conditions across late Pleistocene North America, not enough time had passed for local selective gradients to lead to significant changes in point shape.
Indigenous Law Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 2009, pp. 45-122
Description
Examines the implications of a national First Nations Land Title System (FNLTS) as it relates to economic development. The article also compares and looks at other Indigenous communities internationally.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 4, Tribal College Leadership and Vision, Summer, 2009
Description
Reports the affirmation for accreditation awarded to Fort Belknap College, in July 2008, by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 4, Tribal College Leadership and Vision, Summer, 2009
Description
Comments on a program, scheduled to begin spring of 2010, to launch a four year baccalaureate program in elementary education with a minor in middle school science or mathematics.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, Fall, 2009, pp. 427-439
Description
Discusses the contentious issue of the termination of federal trust protection of American Indian reservation lands, including rifts formed between tribal communities.