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Indian Control of Indian Education: The Path of the Upper Nicola Band

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Opal Charters-Voght
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 23, no. 1, Hands Back, Hands Forward: Revising Aboriginal Voices and Revisioning Aboriginal Research, 1999, pp. 64-99
Overview of the education history of the Band, which indicates the need for local control of its education. Describes a workshop where educational philosophy goals were developed.
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Indian Education Confronts the Seventies: Special Program Considerations: Volume III

Alternate Title
Position Papers on Indian Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Henrietta V. Whiteman
Emory Sequequaptewa
David Swensen
Grant Venn
Calvin Dupree ... [et al.]
Presents eleven position papers in an effort to examine the extent of the Indian Studies area. 1)A Vision: The Warrior-Scholar-Community Activist, The End Product of Indian Studies by Henrietta V.
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Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2: The Challenge

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
F. Laurie Barron
Prairie Forum, vol. 12, no. 2, Fall, 1987, pp. 325-327
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada, Volume 2: The Challenge edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill.
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Indian Leaders Must Speak Up to Save FNUC

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
StarPhoenix, August 5, 2005, p. A9
Commentary on the continuing staff turnover, inner turmoil, and backroom politics by the FSIN over the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC).
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Indian Record (Vol. 36, Nos. 5-6, May-June, 1973)

Documents & Presentations
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian Record (Vol. 36, Nos. 6-7, July-August, 1973)

Documents & Presentations
"National publication for the Indians of Canada." Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record. Articles reflect the attitudes and policies of the time.
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Indian Self-Determination and the Community College

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dick G. Winchell
Stephen Safforn
Robert N. Porter
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 19, no. 3, May 1980, pp. [17-23]
Assesses ability of community to best meet training needs aimed at developing tribal management skills.
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Indian/Tribal Studies Programs in the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges

Alternate Title
Indian Tribal Studies Programs in the Tribally Controlled Community Colleges
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Wayne J. Stein
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Autumn, 1986, pp. 29-33
Argues that academic process can be used to restore traditional knowledge and that the Tribal Community College provides a forum for discussion of concerns.
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Indigenizing the Academy: Indigenous Perspectives and Eurocentric Challenges

Alternate Title
Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Marie Battiste
Sákéj Henderson
Presenters discuss issues of intellectual or cognitive imperialism; summarize the Eurocentric knowledge systems, religions, and doctrines on which historical and current education are built and the means of enforcement by which those frameworks are held in place. Stress the need for Universities to implement Indigenous ways of knowing and thinking in all colleges and disciplines in order to affect change. Duration: 1:18:01
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Indigenous Distance Education

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tracey Lindberg
Priscilla Campeau
Janice Makokis
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 4, Indigenous Education and the Prospects for Cultural Survival, Winter, 2003
Highlights a Canadian education model that argues that indigenous education is education for and by indigenous people.
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Indigenous Education for All?: A Metaphorical Counterstory

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie Kaomea
International Critical Childhood Policy Studies Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 109-121
Discusses the ethical, cultural & political dilemmas that non-Hawaiian students present to open Indigenous education programs.
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Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Symbols

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rachael Selby
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Journal, p. [?]
2009 Edition contains: Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Symbols by Rachael Selby. Matariki - A Symbol of Survival by Hohaia Collier. Windigo Presence in Selected Contemporary Ojibwe Prose and Poetry by Linda LeGarde Grover. Māori Symbolism - The Enacted Curriculum by Jamie Lambert. Who Says I Don't Want to Come to School?
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Is American Indian Studies for Real?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Duane Champagne
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 77-90
Looks at the movement towards autonomy of American Indigenous peoples and American Indian Studies; and how this is not completely understood by mainstream institutions.
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James Miles Venne

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 11, February 2008, p. 26

Brief profile of James Miles Venne, Lac La Ronge Indian Band chief, who helped create Kitsaki Development Corporation, set up band control of the local education system and lobbied for Aboriginal and treaty rights to be included in the Canadian Constitution.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.26.

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Lagging Education Levels Must be Fixed Quickly

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, October 31, 2008, p. A13
Looks at the dissimilar percentages of high school student graduates attending First Nation communities and those who attend provincial schools.
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Leaders Need to Shed Egos, Work to Save FNUC

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Doug Cuthand
Star-Phoenix, February 26, 2010, p. A13
The Begay report recommends changes to governance of the First Nations University of Canada if the University is to survive.
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Leadership in Alaskan Native Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tom R. Hopkins
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 2, no. 1, January 1962, pp. [1-5]
Outlines a brief history of the Alaskan education from the Mission school to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the need for reconciliation of educational thought with village conditions.
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A Light in the Night

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Roessel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 11, no. 3, May 1972, pp. [26-29]
Explains the objectives and reasons for establishing a Navajo College.
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Like Ripples in Water: 1980-1986

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Anne-Marie Mawhiney
Thomas Alcoze
Robert Hart
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 9, Special Edition In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the School of Indigenous Relations, February 2014, pp. 11-21
Discusses how the culturally-specific social work program started. Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 11 to read article.
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Literature Review: Language & Culture

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mary Joy Elijah
Brief historical overview of the fight for First Nations' language rights; international developments and recommendations are included.
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Lubicons Pressured to Give Up Self-Determination

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker , vol. 24, no. 12, March 2007, p. 10

Questions the federal governments' push to regionalize sewer, water and education on unceded lands, thereby hindering Lubicon self-determination.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.10.

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Maintaining and Renewing Native Languages

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jon Reyhner
Edward Tennant
Bilingual Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 279-304
Discusses results of Navajo and Yup'ik school-based maintenance and language renewal efforts and tribal and national language policies.
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Making Native-Language Policy in Ontario in the 1980s

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John S. Long
Historical Studies in Education, vol. 8, no. 2, 2006, pp. 134-162
Discusses the Northern Native-Languages Project (NNLP) and government policies and their development regarding the use of native languages as modes of instruction in Ontario schools.
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The Meaning of "Success" For First Nations Schools

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kassandra Churcher
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 4, Fall, 2010, p. [?]
Compares the No Child Left Behind program initiated in the United States in 2001 and Canada's First Nations Student Success Program (FNSSP) introduced in 2009.
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Mi'kmaq Education Act 1998, c.24

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Government of Canada
Mi'kmaq Bands in Nova Scotia
Agreement concerning the rights and responsibilities of the Mi'kmaq communiies with respect to control over education.
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The Micmac Bachelor of Social Work Program: Policy Direction and Development

Alternate Title
Mik'maq Bachelor of Social Work Program: Policy Direction and Development
The Mi'kmaq Bachelor of Social Work Program: Policy Direction and Development
The Miq'Mak Bachelor of Social Work Program: Policy Direction and Development
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann F. V. Smith
Jacqueline M. Pace
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 147-154
Implementation of a culturally relevant program for students at Dalhousie University, Halifax.
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Models of American Indian Education: Cultural Inclusion and the Family/Community/School Linkage

Alternate Title
Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. Paper 89
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adrienne Freng
Scott Freng
Helen A. Moore
Sociological Focus, vol. 39, no. 1, February 2006, pp. 55-74
Examines the condition of education from the perspective of young adult American Indians from the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago tribe, Omaha, Santee, Lakota, and Cheyenne tribes living in Nebraska.
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