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What Inuit Middle-Years Students Say About Their Learning

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Brian Lewthwaite
Barbara McMillan
Journal of the Manitoba Educational Research Network, vol. 3, 2009, pp. 45-72
Students consider having a teacher that cares about them and their success as students, greatly influences their classroom learning. Scroll down to page 45 to read article.
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What Other Canadian Kids Have: The Fight for a New School in Attawapiskat

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karl Reimer
Native Studies Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2010, pp. 119-136
Discussion, at the structural level, about the kind of education that is provided to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The article also discusses a social activist, Shannen Koostachin, and her campaign to engage in social action in order to pressure the federal government to build a new school.
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What Problems Do American Indians Have With English?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
J. D. Fletcher
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 23, no. 1, October 1983, pp. [1-14]
Problems children encounter in learning English as a second language in school.
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When is a Disadvantage a Handicap?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeanette C. Smith
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 19, no. 2, January 1980, pp. [13-18]
Examines the impact of the law in deeming Aboriginal children disadvantaged or handicapped upon entering school.
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Where Are All The Native Grads

Alternate Title
Where Are All the Native Graduates
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 21, no. 1, April 2003, p. 32

Examines the factors affecting education of Aboriginal youth, creating graduation rates that lag behind that of their non-Aboriginal classmates.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.44.

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Where Waters Meet: Merging the Strengths of Aboriginal and Mainstream Educational Practices to Improve Students' Experiences at School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sara Florence Davidson
English Practices, vol. 57, no. 1, Starting a Circle: Exploring Aboriginal Education, Fall, 2015, pp. 9-[16]
Looks at different methods of learning which may cause problems for Aboriginal students. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 9.
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Whose English Counts?: Indigenous English in Saskatchewan Schools

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrea Sterzuk
McGill Journal of Education, vol. 43, no. 1, Winter, 2008, pp. 9-20
Focuses on how students' educational attainment is affected by differences in home and school dialects, and the impact of inadequate assessment and evaluation by teachers and speech practitioners.
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Wicubami: Honoring Alexis Nakota Sioux Ish?awimin through Kinship, Language, Spirit, and Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lia Ruttan
Sherry Letendre
Elizabeth Letendre
Tanja Schramm-Trethowan
Fay Fletcher ... [et al.]
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 1, 2017, pp. 87-108
Describes Elders' contributions to a community-based participatory research project, the Nimi Ichinohabi program, on substance abuse prevention for children at the community school.
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Women the World Must Hear: A School For the Sky People

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Weston
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Becoming a Healer, Fall, 2008
Highlights the commitment of the Wind River reservation in Wyoming to offer Arapaho language immersion at the elementary school in an effort to keep the language alive for years to come.
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Worldviews of Urban Iroquois Faculty: A Case Study of a Native American Resource Program

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Nix Hollowell
Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 3/4, The Recovery of Indigenous Knowledge, Summer/Autumn, 2004, pp. 764-785
Looks at a unique public school in Buffalo known as P.S. #19, Native American Magnet School. Students come from six Iroquois tribes: Oneida, Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga and Tuscarora.
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Xpqenwellen: Groups for Aboriginal Girls and Young Women in Schools and Community

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Girls Groups in School District No. 73 (Kamloops/Thompson)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society
School District No. 73
First Nations Education Council
Thompson Rivers University
Comments on a school that provides a culturally-safe place for young Aboriginal girls to explore adolescent female issues and to promote a positive and healthy gender and cultural identity.
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Yaya’ and the Firbough: A Philosophy of Respect

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shirley Sterling
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 43-53
The Nlakapamux concept of respect is explored as lived by an Nlakapamux grandmother and transmitted through narratives about her.
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A Year of Crisis: Memory and Meaning in a Navajo Community’s Struggle for Self-Determination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David W. Adams
American Indian Culture and Research, vol. 42, no. 4, 2018, pp. 113-130
In this commentary article, the author describes the conditions and events surrounding a Diné school’s founding and the internal conflicts which eventually led to a breakdown between staff and leadership; highlights the potential learning for other nations working towards educational sovereignty.
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You Have to be Carefully Taught: Special Needs and First Nations Education: A Report to the National Indian Education Council, The Assembly of First Nations, and the Chiefs Council on Education

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Roland D. Chrisjohn
Native Psychologist Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 4, November 1999, p. [?]
Document generated to create a basis for discussions both within the organizations and while negotiating with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. Sources include reports from, and meetings with, Indian Affairs, and First Nations authorities and communities, provincial policies, and professional and academic literature.
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Young Population Presents Opportunity, Challenge

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, June 30, 2005, p. A17
Discusses the rapidly growing, increasingly urban aboriginal youth and the changes that are confronting policy makers in Western Canada.
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Youth Voices Survey Summary

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council of the Chiefs of Ontario
Survey conducted in support of inquest into the deaths of seven youths from remote communities who were attending school in Thunder Bay.
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Yukon First Nations Clans: Teacher's Guide

Alternate Title
Yukon First Nations Five: Yukon First Nations Clans: Teacher's Guide
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Yukon Department of Education?]

Topics include Yukon First Nations clans, Crow and Wolf clan, Inland Haida clan system, matrilineal lineages, and clan crests, houses and responsibilties.

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Yukon Hostels — Dawson City and Whitehorse

Alternate Title
Anglican Residential Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
General Synod Archives
Anglican Church of Canada
Looks at St. Paul's and St. Agnes Hostel, which housed Métis children who were not eligible to attend Chooutla School at Carcross.
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Yupiit Schools in Southwest Alaska: Instruments for Asserting Native Identity and Control

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
José A. Torralba
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, Indigenous Pedagogies Resurgence and Restoration, 2012, pp. 23-41, 224
Discusses the history of settler control for Indigenous education and how local Native communities now design and institute culturally appropriate curricula for their youth in the educational system.
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