Bilingual & Multilingual

Looks at a school that for 14 years has produced 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance but is federally required to test students in English rather than the language they are taught in.

Case study using the Ute Reference Grammar. Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.

Teaching physical education to Navajo children was a means to bypass the shyness of children and to get them to repeat language patterns loudly and do spontaneous English sentences. Grades 1, 2, and 3.

Educational Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--Mount Saint Vincent University, 1995.

Educational Administration Thesis (Ed.D.)--The University of South Dakota, 2010.

Discusses moving forward with education on all levels. Inspirational story by Eleanor Bernard about successful Indigenous controlled educational approaches. Presentation begins at 21:40. Duration: 2:42:25.

Study shows Sami patients' language choice in different situations is influenced by complex social and cultural factors.

Summary of paper given at the 2009 American Indian Teacher Education Conference held at the Northern Arizona University of Flagstaff.

Problems children encounter in learning English as a second language in school.

Examines the impact of the law in deeming Aboriginal children disadvantaged or handicapped upon entering school.

Analyzes past policies and practices in American Indian Education by looking at what was meant to provide equatable education through standardization has marginalized Naive American people.

Contends Alaska Native students should be bilingual and bicultural in their language and traditions and in the English language and traditions.

Looks at the development of the Certificate in Aboriginal Literacy Education program and follow-up workshops for creating children's books in-order to preserve the Mi'kmaq language in the community of Wagmatcook, Cape Breton.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2005.

Includes links to descriptions of languages spoken in the territory, order forms for courses in Tlingit, Tagish, Kaska and Tutchone and audio lessons available on the site.

Reports on the present state of Yupik language instruction in Gambell and a project to translate and transcribe into English older Siberian Yupik folk stories.