Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 30-37
Description
Discusses pastoral districts, government support, and gender issues related to roles, education, healthcare and HIV/AIDS.
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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Margaret D. Jacobs
Description
Compares the forced removal of American Indian and Aboriginal children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that governments intentionally removed indigenous children to institutions as acts of colonial control, not assimilation.
Chapter from Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc.
Links to resources to accompany the documentaries, Indian Country Diaries based on four key elements:
Assimilation, Sovereignty, Culture, and Humor. Lesson plans are directed to grades 9-12.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 115-134
Description
An examination into the introduction of land allotments into Indian Territory and the efforts of Cherokee lobbyists to prevent its implementation in the late nineteenth century.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 2, Spring, 1983, pp. 67-80
Description
Discussion on the Indian Rights Association and its goal of the assimilation of American Indigenous nations, in particular through the allotment policies in Oklahoma during early twentieth century.
American Educational History Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2006, pp. 97-105
Description
Discusses the use of print media to promote educational reforms, substitution of community day schools for boarding schools, replacement of curriculum to promote Aboriginal culture, and the use of vocational programs to benefit Aboriginal communities.
Indigenous Maori and Tongan Perspectives on the Role of Tongan Language and Culture in the Community and in the University in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mere Kēpa
Linitä Manu'atu [Mere Kepa
Linita Manu'atu
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 1/2, Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literature, Winter - Spring, 2006, pp. 11-27
Description
Article describes a grass-roots initiative to integrate Indigenous language and cultural learning for Indigenous students into the mainstream education system in order to improve outcomes for students.
Background Paper (The Joint Center Health Policy Institute)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
Description
Examines status of enrolment, identifies factors which contribute to low rates, and makes recommendations for improvement at both state and federal levels.
Aboriginal & Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 30, no. 6, December 2006, pp. 19-21
Description
Transcript of a presentation made at the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN) Conference advocating for representation by Indigenous nurses on curriculum committees.
European Review of Native American Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2006, pp. 1-6
Description
Discusses historical and contemporary developments in the fields of education and language and examines the current endeavors toward Indigenous autonomy among the Sámi and First Nations people.
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 50, no. 4, Ingenious Peoples: Canadian and U.S. Perspectives, December 2006, pp. 562-575
Description
Discusses changes to geography course to include more Canadian content, cultural values, heritage, and contemporary challenges. The differences in cultural regions are compared.
Looks at the "spirit and intent" of Treaty and that rules of interpretation should be in the context of current reality, e.g., 1993 Treaty Land Entitlement Agreement.
Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 14, no. 3-4, 2006, pp. 366-373
Description
Considers how the Mining Engineering Department at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is addressing the need to integrate sustainable development into mining engineering on behalf of industry and society.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 19, no. 5, September-October 2006, pp. 549-552
Description
Introductory article to a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. The story, told in narrative style, describes the author's journey to visit Tohono O'odam Tribal College in Arizona.
Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 31, no. 1, For the Love of Words: Aboriginal Writers of Canada, 2006, pp. 3-9
Description
Introduction to a conference, held in the Fall of 2004, in Winnipeg, that brought together Native and non-Native scholars and Aboriginal writers/community activists for a three-day gathering.
Final SIDRU Report, SIDRU Educational Research Fund, General Research Fund (Envelope B)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ali Sammel
Description
Research conducted to clarify the relationship between educator's generic understandings of teaching and learning, and their beliefs and actions in teaching science to First Nations students. Surveyed 91 university students from University of Regina, First Nations University of Canada, and the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program at the University of Saskatchewan.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 4, Reforming Our Schools, Native Style, Summer, 2006
Description
Suggests that the problems many Native American children experience in school, such as low academic achievement and absenteeism, need to be addressed by the school system and Native American communities.
Consists of an interview where she gives an account of native use of plants for medicine. She tells of prophecies concerning the arrival of the white man and general accounts of her life in the bush.
Joe Duquette, born 1904, on Mistawasis Reserve, never attended school, completely self-educated. Now Senator of F.S.I. and involved in teaching and counselling young people. He tells the story of his arranged marriage.
Consists of an interview with Josephine Beaucage where she gives an account of trapping in the woods as well as an account of the preparation of hides.
Autobiographical short story. Author writes about his childhood, learning to read, his intelligence, lack of acceptance by others, refusal to fail, and becoming a teacher for other young Native American kids. From The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings edited by Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan.