Book review of: Indian Education in Canada. Volume 2: The Challenge. Nakoda Institute Occasional Paper No. 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert, Don McCaskill
Call for a Federal policy to recognize the cultural importance of Indian languages and to expand the teaching of them beyond the current situation where only those people of Indian ancestry in Saskatchewan Provincial schools are funded for instruction.
File contains 2 negatives of a panel discussion group from the Indian Youth Heritage Days conference (presumably in Prince Albert, SK) on July 3, 1985.
Joe McAuley of Cumberland House remembers the past and comments on the differences between trapping in his youth and trapping as an elder. One picture: Joe outside.
Language, Culture, and the Mathematics Concept of American Indian Learners
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Duane E. Schindler
David M. Davison
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 24, no. 3, July 1985, pp. [27-34]
Description
Explores how language and thought processes affect learning mathematical concepts and suggests ways to facilitate learning by those whose first language is not English.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 9, no. 3-4, Women and Literacy, 1988, pp. 73-76
Description
Describes two training programs designed to help women develop the knowledge and skills required to better control and make decisions about their lives.
Consists of an interview with Mrs. Lucinda Froman, who is a Mohawk Indian originally from the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario. She gives an account of migration from the United States to Canada. She also talks of encounters with evil spirits and how to ward them off.
Discusses unanswered questions on education status and experiences of undergraduate, graduate and professional native women and explains the current state of research.
Includes Saskatoon City Council minutes from a meeting on Monday, February 8, 1982 regarding a City pilot project to operate a day camp for Aboriginal children. The camp included excursions to the Forestry Farm, Public Library, Museum, Fire Station, and Pike Lake and was deemed a success by Council.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1982, pp. 181-185
Description
Statistical data gathered in 1978-1979 on Native American participation in post-secondary education and a prediction on the educational levels for the year 2000 for Aboriginal Canadians.