Native American Students Going to and Staying in Postsecondary Education: An Intervention Perspective

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Howard S. Adelman
Linda Taylor
Perry Nelson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, Reducing Barriers to Native American Student Success in Higher Education, 2013, pp. 29-56
Description
Discusses what has been done to improve student readiness, increase enrollment, ease transitions, and support completion.
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Native American Studies: A Personal Overview

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
C. Patrick Morris
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Autumn, 1986, pp. 9-16
Description
Argues that in the 1980s lack of a professionally guided research academic recognition is a major obstacle for Indigenous Studies and that the greatest success has been the development of Tribal Colleges, e.g.. Navajo Community College.
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Native Language Education: An Inquiry Into What Is and What Could Be

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thecla Neganegijig
Mary Breunig
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007, pp. 305-321
Description
Explores the present state of K-12 and postsecondary Native Language (NL) education in Canada and the feasibility of incorporating outdoor education with NL programs.
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Native Language Education: An Inquiry Into What Is and What Could Be

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thecla Neganegijig
Mary Breunig
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 2, 2007, pp. 305-322
Description
Explores the current state of Kindergarten to grade 12 and postsecondary Native language education in Canada and examines the possibilities of incorporating outdoor education with Native language programs.
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Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Native Nations Institute for Leadership
Management
and Policy
Description
Institute builds on and continues research originally carried out by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Site contains links to: courses, research reports, working papers, joint occasional papers, and other publications.
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Native Student and Faculty Experiences: Supportive Systems from the Outside

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vicki A. Green
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 228-232
Description
Author encourages Indigenous people looking at careers in academia to seek out mentorship from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous faculty members and stresses the roles that allies can play to support Indigenous people entering the academy.
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Native Studies in Canadian Universities and Colleges

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John A. Price
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, 1981, pp. 349-361
Description
Overview of Native Studies in higher learning institutions including philosophical, pedagogical, and political considerations.
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Native Studies Versus the Academic Establishment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John A. Price
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 193-201
Description
Asserts "that Native Studies in North America is inherently a critical discipline, one that challenges the European heritage culture."
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The Native Training Institute: A Place of Holistic Learning and Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Brown
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 102-116
Description
Discusses the history, curriculum (including the philosophy of healing/learning) and founding principles of the Institute and illustrates its effectiveness through case studies of students.
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Native Women: Decolonization and Transcendence of Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Angela Marie Jaime
International Journal of Multicultural Education, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Issue: Indigenous Education, 2008, p. [?]
Description
Two American Indian women describe their experiences while seeking careers in a white male dominated profession.
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Naturalizing Indigenous Knowledge in Eurocentric Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. 1, Indigenous Knowledges and Education, 2009, pp. 5-18, 129-130
Description
Looks at the intellectual activation of Indigenous knowledge, by Indigenous peoples, and activities that have created this renaissance.
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The Nature of Nursing Practice in Rural and Remote Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Martha L. P. MacLeod
Judith C. Kulig
Norma J. Stewart
J. Roger Pitblado
Kathy Banks
Carl D’Arcy ... Debra Morgan ... [et al.]
Description
Research looked at four topics: nature of nursing practice, roles and functions, commonalities and differences among roles and functions in various settings, and factors which facilitate or hinder practice and development of expertise. Methods involved analysis of Registered Nurses Database to develop a demographic profile, systematic analyses of policy and administrative documents, national survey of 3,933 registered nurses, and interviews with 152 practitioners about their experiences.
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Navajo Nation Brain Drain: An Exploration of Returning College Graduates' Perspectives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Quintina Ava Bearchief-Adolpho
Aaron P. Jackson
Steven A. Smith
Moroni T. Benally
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-25
Description
Looks at the primary reasons for returning back to the reservation to live and work: family support, community, cultural identity, the simple life, reservation economy, and commitment to the reservation.
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Navajo Philosophy and Its Application in Education

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 3rd, 1999
Native American Symposium ; 4th, 2001
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jutta Vogelbacher
Description
Discusses how a curriculum framed from the Aboriginal perspective benefits Native American students.
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Navigating Government Services: The "Lived Experience" of Urban Aboriginal Families in Fredericton, New Brunswick: Final Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Lisa Jodoin
Description
Study involved interviews and focus groups with 32 community members and front-line service providers both in Aboriginal organizations and government. Themes which emerged were health, parenting supports, mobility, and employment, as well as three overarching issues: service gaps and barriers, funding gaps, and impermanence of programs and funding.
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Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment: Aboriginal People, Educational Restructuring, and Academic Labour in the North of British Columbia, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Suzanne E. Mills
Tyler McCreary
Antipode, vol. 45, no. 5, November 2013, pp. 1298-1317
Description
Looks at process of Indigenization of Northwest Community College and local academic union resulting in allegiances being caught between desire to support initiative and drive to minimize worker exploitation.
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Networks of Advantage: Urban Indigenous Entrepreneurship and the Importance of Social Capital

Alternate Title
National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples, 2011
Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: [Fostering Biimaadiziwin] National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Rochelle R. Côté
Description

Analysis of data from the Aboriginal Entrepreneurship in Toronto Study. Excerpt from Well-being in the Urban Aboriginal Community: Fostering Biimaadiziwin edited by David Newhouse, Kevin FitzMaurice, Tricia McGuire-Adams, and Daniel Jetté.

Originally presented at the 2011 National Research Conference on Urban Aboriginal Peoples.

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Never Too Young to Learn

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Patty Talahongva
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 2, K-12 Education, Winter, 2009
Description
Describes improvements in student education programs at tribal colleges in the United States, education programs geared towards youngsters, programs for at-risk high school students and more.
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New Aboriginal Health Course Increases Awareness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ken Kilpatrick
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 170, no. 12, June 8, 2004, p. 1780
Description
Discusses a research project by two McMaster medical school students that turned into a five month course.
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New Perspectives in Nursing Education: The Role of Nurses in Health Promotion for Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic Region: The Case of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
N. H. Dyachkovsky
A. G. Karpova
N. A. Protasova
B. A. Chemezova
I. L. Savvina
Northern Review, no. 43, Nursing Education in the Circumpolar North, December 2016, pp. 135-138
Description
Discusses the role of international co-operation among higher education institutions in projects directed to promoting the health of Arctic populations.
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New Sites of Transformation in Aboriginal People's Post-Secondary Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Malreddy Pavan Kumar
Policy Dialogue, vol. 15, Spring, 2007, pp. 18-20
Description
An examination of the educational success of Indigenous students and its role in creating new Indigenous "middle/intellectual class". Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 18 to access article.
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New Stories and Broken Necks: Incorporating Native American Texts in the American Literature Survey

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Chris LaLonde
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 8, no. 2, Series 2; Teaching American Indian Literatures, Summer, 1996, pp. [7]-20
Description
Discusses the problems and challenges associated with integrating Native American literature into general American Literature survey classes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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The New "Three R's": An Award-Winning College Program for Inuit Youth Shows the Benefits of a Small Learning Environment and Culturally-Relevant Curriculum

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Murray Angus
Morely Hanson
Our Schools/Our Selves, vol. 20, no. 4, Summer, 2011, pp. 31-51
Description
Discusses the history and structure of the Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS), a college program designed to facilitate the transition from high school to the workforce or post-secondary education.
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