File contains 14 negatives of Aboriginal art displayed for Vincent Massey Students May 25, 1989. The art displayed includes a variety of traditional items such as snowshoes, mukluks, beadwork, and minature totem poles. In eight of the negatives an unidentified man is shown holding up a minature tipi. In the other negatives art is displayed on tables.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 2, January 1986, pp. [18-23]
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Examines Chinle Agency's Summer Supplemental Special Education Program offered to teachers of Navajo tribes and surveys its effect on teacher attitudes toward the exceptional student.
By understanding the historical circumstances of education, paper aims to find solutions to unique cultural problems for American Indians such as equality of educational opportunity, local autonomy, community involvement, curriculum development and general schooling practices.
Research on characteristics of elected Native leaders in various organizations in southeast Alaska. Results are organized using the eight assumptions for success.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [40-44]
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Expresses the viewpoint that universities, in partnership with tribal groups, should take the lead in Arizona and all through America in improving elementary, secondary and university education for Native Americans.
Describes games played throughout the Arctic with special emphasis on the Keewatin Region. Includes information on how to teach games and the equipment needed.
Reading Teacher, vol. 42, no. 9, May 1989, pp. 670-674
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Discusses the 'deficit' theory assumption that children from lower socioeconomic homes have lower levels of language skill, whereas the classes may provide fewer opportunities to speak out, and so may be perceived as less capable expressively.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [1-11]
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Provides an historical overview of conflict between school and community and asserts that Native American involvement in curriculum is essential for successful reading programs.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 28, no. 3, May 1989, pp. [1-13]
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Findings, consistent with earlier studies, indicate stereotypes being reinforced by unbalanced and under-represented Indigenous writers in literature textbooks.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 3, May 1986, pp. [22-29]
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Study compared secondary students from rural Inuit villages to a sample of Euroamericans from an urban environment to determine whether cultural differences influence work values.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1986, pp. 181-195
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Argues that Aboriginal control of education is essential to address problems and ensure successful integration with social and economic development goals and contends that Universities have a key role in encouraging Aboriginal students to participate in higher education.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 2, January 1986, pp. [1-7]
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Argues there is insufficient evidence to support the claim of right hemisphere dominance in Indigenous peoples and cautions against changing curricula until it can be proven.
Journal of American Indian Education, Special, August 1989, pp. [1-14]
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Discusses ways for teachers to adjust standard teaching procedures to better address Native American student methods of learning and demonstrating what was learned.