Quality Education for Minorities Network (QEM) Native American Males Workshop Report
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Description
Workshop involved representatives of institutions which serve this particular population. Objective was to identify best practices for channeling enrollment into science programs and increasing graduation rates.
Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Peterson Zah
Description
Simon Ortiz introduces Dr. Peterson Zah who speaks on the history of Native American education, Navajo education and student recruitment. Fifth installment of lecture series.
Duration: 1:12:14
Leonie Sandercock answers questions about her film which exposed a dark side of Canada's past history to the present situation of two First Nations communities, Burns Lake Band and the Cheslatta Carrier Nation, in north central British Columbia.
Duration: 24:09.
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999, pp. 111-113
Description
Book review of: First Fish, First People edited by Judith Roche and Meg McHutchison.
River of the Angry Moon by Mark Hume with Harvey Thommasen.
Scroll to page 111 to read review.
Presents case studies of participants in the carbon market involving Haida Gwaii, Lummi Nation, Nez Perce, Poplar River First Nations Munsee Delaware Nation, Scolel Te Landowners, West Arnhem Landowners/North Indigenous Savannah Landowners and Maori Landowners.
Video highlights efforts to increase number of Ojibwe speakers through establishment of immersion schools and by recording elders' stories. Focuses on two schools: Niigaane School in Minnesota and Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion Charter School in Wisconsin.
Duration: 56:41.
American Literature, vol. 83, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 449-451
Description
Book reviews of:
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England by Jean M. O'Brien
Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History by Daniel H. Usner
X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent by Scott Richard Lyons.
Book reviews found by scrolling to page 449.
Speaker discusses the program of preservation and conservation undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the New Deal era. Also features screening of newsreel, Timber and Totem Poles by the Forest Service.
Duration: 45:34.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 409-434
Description
Looks at six states with the largest percentage of American Indian populations and analyzes if a proportional representation of American Indians hold desirable positions in state and local governments.
Looks at re-designing Indigenous school-based health programs and practices to include indigenous ways of knowing, learning, traditions, and values of the community.
Looks at politics and practices of cross cultural communication by examining the historical and current status of American Indians as subjects and participants in the educational system.
Journal of Indigenous Research, vol. 1, no. 2, Special Issue, 2011, pp. 1-7
Description
Focuses on the Navajos' ability to selectively and successfully incorporate elements from the outside world into their lives without losing their culture.
Comments on how Latin American Indigenous Peoples (LAIP) reproduce cultural practices in a transnational setting.
Comparative Ethnic Studies (B.A.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2011.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 55-58
Description
Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.