Music & Education

The significance of incorporating Native Alaskan music, dance and culture into the school system .

File contains 9 negatives from depicting the All Saints Residential School Choir. One scanned image depicts part of choir singing.

Brief history and development of American Indian music from the traditional to the contemporary.

Explains how educators of Native American or First Nations language can successfully use recorded songs and stories in the classroom. Good examples of explicit teaching practices, modeled by Upper Skagit Elders, are also shared. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 52.

Brief discussion of the documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life directed by Joan Prowse.

Curriculum and Instruction Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Victoria, 2015.

Main objective of Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College course is to "train Native people to teach art to Native children."

Looks at the use of music as tool for assimilation of Indigenous students at American boarding schools.

Presents an interview with Eekwol and her views of gender roles in hip-hop.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--The University of Western Ontario, 2013.

Reflects on a five year project to connect Indigenous females with white policemen through participation in a drum circle. The drum circle allowed dialogue between the two groups in hopes of creating understanding, healing and trust.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005.

Examines First Nations music in a combined band and social studies, grade 9, classroom in Saskatchewan.

Explores the genre of contemporary Native American songs as valid texts with viable educational elements for academic study. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 89.

Discussion of Alaskan music and its connection to ceremony has been a significant hindrance to its preservation.

Book review of: Melodies of Mourning by Fiona Magowan. Review located by scrolling to page 276.

Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College introduces a four year course designed to create music awareness and appreciation using Aboriginal words and ideas.

Presents two papers and a general discussion on intercultural music education.

Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College's (SICC) Winston Wuttunee, from the Red Pheasant First Nation, plans to present culture through music to elementary students.

Discusses a proposed Indigenous educational theory centering on Niitsitapi ways of knowing to reappropriate the curricular space.

Comments on the characteristics of child-created music and the main rhythmic models and their variants.

The 13:34-minute video was filmed at Valley View School in Beauval and features special guest Winston Wuttunee and the students singing songs in English and Cree by the teachers and students of the school for the Celebrate Saskatchewan festivities in 1981. Filming and production was by the DNS Extension Services Branch.

Historical note:

A video titled 'Songs to Celebrate Saskatchewan' recorded in 1981 by staff of the Extension Service Branch of the Department of Northern Saskatchewan in Beauval.

Proposes a project to introduce traditional Alaskan music and dance into the classroom with redesigned textbooks and curriculum materials.

Music Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1950.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2008.

Music Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008.

Focuses on the teenage girls drum group, Neebin Nodin from Winnipeg, and their commitment to cultural traditions.

Winston Wuttunee hired to teach Indian music appreciation by the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College.