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Situating Giving Back For Native Americans Pursuing Careers In Stem: “You Don’T Just Take, You Give Something Back”, Janet Page-Reeves, Gabriel Leroy Cortez, Yoenesha Ortiz, Mark Moffett, Kathy Deerinwater, Douglas Medin

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

This article explores how a desire to give back influences Native Americans pursuing education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We present analysis of data from 51 interviews with Native students and STEM professionals. Despite the compelling evidence of the core significance of a community orientation among Native Americans, insufficient attention has been given to thinking about the unique challenges faced by STEM professionals in devising ways to give back and how this relates to the continuing problem of under-representation of Native Americans in STEM. Here we propose strategies for universities and industry to honor Native ways …

Teacher Perceptions Of Environmental Science In Rural Northwestern New Mexico Public Schools, Marie Quiahuitl Julienne

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

In this study, I explored what teachers perceive as the factors that impact their teaching of environmental science in rural secondary level schools in northwestern New Mexico. I adapted Bronfenbrenner’s (1994) ecological systems model, based on four environmental subsystem levels (microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem), as the conceptual framework to address the major research question of this study, and developed 18 interview questions to explore teachers’ perceptions of factors that influence their teaching of environmental science. I investigated the perspectives science teachers have about environmental science topics and the influences they perceive that affect how they teach environmental science, and …

Learning Statistics Through Guided Block Play: A Pre-Curriculum In Statistical Literacy, Robert P. Giebitz

Organization, Information and Learning Sciences ETDs

Learning to use data to investigate the world and make decisions has become an essential skill for all citizens. Play and curiosity are powerful motivators for learning. Inquiry – the process of asking questions and seeking answers – can engage the natural curiosity of young learners and motivate early learning. Recent research in statistics education has shown that children as young as 4 and 5 years old can learn to collect, organize, and interpret data they acquire through observation, counting, and measuring in a process of guided inquiry. Guided block play has been used for over 100 years to enable …

Settler Colonial Legacies: Indigenous Student Reflections On K-12 Social Studies Curriculum, Stephanie Masta

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

This article explores how Indigenous students make meaning of the dominant structure of settler colonialism within their K-12 academic experiences. I build on previous work done on settler colonial ideology by linking structural forms of settler colonial power to the lived experiences of Indigenous students, and using their voices to describe how pervasive settler colonial ideology is in practice. Through their descriptions of the curriculum narratives in K-12, the participants create a compelling image of the influence of settler colonialism in their educational experiences. Confronting settler colonial ideology is not just about providing a more accurate historical record of what …

Indigenous Inquiry: Understanding Language Ideologies Through Story From Individuals Who Attended Santo Domingo Pueblo’S Bia Day School, Estefanita L. Calabaza

Shared Knowledge Conference

This study focuses on Indigenous inquiry using the method of story as a holistic approach to gather information through the spoken word and movement. The project is to understand the dynamics of ancestral language ideologies through the ‘voice’ print of the elders through their BIA day school experiences of western schooling. Four participants, two males and two females, former students who attended the Santo Domingo Day School as children in the early 1900s will be interviewed, using two techniques based on Santo Domingo Pueblo Epistemology to convey information; semi-structured questions incorporating movement to express themselves using story to contextualize Santo …

Decolonial Gestures Of Andean Bilingual College Students Promoting Quechua: Community-Based Participatory Research With Photovoice, Yuliana H. Kenfield

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Andean college students in Cusco, Peru, struggle to overcome discrimination against bilingualism during their pursuit of higher education. To examine this situation and possibilities for change, I employed a participatory method, photovoice (Wang & Burris, 1994) within a community-based participatory research framework, to facilitate Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students’ exploration of Quechuan practices in their university. Participatory research methodology promoted critical dialogues to challenge ideologies that have obstructed the revitalization, maintenance, development of the Quechua language in higher education. Although university policies in Cusco formally promote inclusion of indigenous knowledge and practices, bilingual Spanish-Quechua practices on campus have remained largely symbolic. …

Diné Epistemology: Sa’Ah Naaghái Bik’Eh Hózhóón Teachings, Vangee Nez

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Sa’ah Naaghái Bik’eh Hózhóón (SNBH) is Diné epistemology, a complex system of knowledge encompassing two paradigms: Beauty Way (Hózhóójii-female) and Protection Way (Naayée’ k’egho-male), with hózhó at its core. The study examines personal narratives of SNBH through lived experiences toward hózhó. The literature review looks at Diné worldview from the perspective of published Diné scholars on SNBH for Diné youth. This qualitative case study approach, using Indigenous epistemology and Indigenous research methodology framework, allowed for intensive descriptions and analysis of SNBH. The interviews explored participants’ lived experiences using narrative inquiry to understand SNBH. The findings …

Language Ideology, Policy And Planning In Peru (Book Review), Yuliana H. Kenfield

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

No abstract provided.

El Español En El Pueblo Ngäbe. Factores Fonológicos Y Morfológicos, Kafda I. Vergara Esturaín

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

This study examines phonological and morphological features involved in the release of plural marking –s in nominal phrases of Spanish as a second language (L2). The linguistic variety belongs to Spanish spoken by members of the Ngäbe pueblo of Panama.

Despite the preference of final /s/ deletion in Panamanian Spanish, morphology seems to activate the production of plural marking –s in certain nominal phrases. Meanwhile, other circumstances stimulating the application of alternative strategies for plural marks are detected.

This study also includes questions about the influence of the first language (L1), particularly by comparing Ngäbere and Spanish nominal phrases. It …

The Heart Of K'É: Transforming Diné Special Education And Unsettling The Colonial Logics Of Disability, Sandra Yellowhorse

American Studies ETDs

This paper takes up the roles of ideology and spatiality as they impact Diné students and learners in understanding conceptions of normativity, neuro-diversity and bodily variance. I am concerned with how the movement and creation of Indigenous schools and their praxis still maintain and often times produce settler colonial ideologies of being, personhood, difference and ability. I illustrate the challenges that Diné planners and educators face in entrenching cultural knowledge and language into their educational initiatives, while some of the problematic manifestations and expressions of normativity present themselves through state polices, federal law and mainstream curriculum.

I focus on the …

Diné Bina'nitin Dóó O'Hoo'aah/Education For Us, By Us: A Collective Journey In Diné Education Liberation, Lyla June Johnston

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

This study is an educational memoir of my experience working for education liberation with hundreds of Diné (Navajo) people written in the style of auto-ethnography. We are indigenous to what is now known as the southwestern United States and organize in the wake of attempted genocide and destructive assimilation policies. Our collective set out to answer the following question: If we could teach and learn anything we wanted, in any way we wanted, what would we do? Based on our ancestral Nitsáhakees-Nahat’á-Iiná-Sii Hasin strategic framework, this Diné collective organized a summer school that reflected their hearts’ true pedagogical desires. What …

Endangered Language Pedagogy & Teaching Methodology, Brandon J. Martínez

Linguistics Student Publications

This manuscript was an undergraduate thesis submitted to the UNM Department of Linguistics in Spring 2017, and accepted with honors for graduation. The paper presents a synthesis of classic and contemporary approaches to teaching and revitalizing indigenous languages, drawing from a wide range of materials and research in the literature. Furthermore, it presents the results of interviews conducted with indigenous language educators at the University of New Mexico, providing insight on the future of indigenous language education through the eyes of indigenous educators themselves.

Briefing On Recent Hate Crimes Against Alaska Natives And Other Acts Of Discrimination, Alaska Federation Of Natives

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This copy of the Briefing on recent hate crimes against Alaska Natives and other acts of discrimination was presented to the Alaska Advisory Committee and the United States Commission on Civil Rights on April 26, 2001 by the Alaska Federation of Natives to report recent incidents of racial discrimination against Alaska Natives.

Repatriation, American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains newspaper clippings on the repatriation of Native American ceremonial artifacts to their tribes, a copy of an issue of the Native American Rights Fund magazine dated 1987, a flier for a benefit auction for the Mohawk Valley Community and the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation and LaDonna Harris and AIO’s correspondence concerning the Native American objects and remains repatriation to their original communities.

An Overview Of Americans For Indian Opportunity, Inc., Ladonna Harris, Laura Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of American for Indian Opportunities reports, communications, updates on the organization, programs sponsored by AIO, communications with editors and publishers, drafts of AIO’s organizational information, work on environmental issues, the American Indian Institute, the Symposium on Sovereign dependency, Conflict management process, Indian Youth development, management session, an AIO’s Corporate Capacity Statement, biographical profile of LaDonna Harris, and copies of some bibliographical sources.

The American Indian Ambassadors Program: Pathways For The Future, Ladonna Harris, Laura Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains triptychs on the American Indian Ambassadors Program and AIO’s thirtieth anniversary. Communications, invitations, and drafts of the triptychs are also included in this set of documents.

Ladonna Harris’ Papers, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains White and discussion papers by LaDonna Harris including drafts with the authors marks and annotations as well as correspondence with Editors and Publishing Companies. Paper titles include: Government to Government: Indian Tribes and the Federal Government, Indian Reservation Economies, The Kerner Report: An American Indian Viewpoint, Colonization of Indian Economy, Esther Ross and the rebirth of the Stillaguamish Tribe, Values of Native American Tribes, Off- Reservation Indians and Unrecognized Tribes, The Menominee Peoples, To all my Comanche Relatives, Tribal Governments in the U.S. Federal System, American Indians and The Constitution, Harmony through Wisdom: Recreating traditional ways of …

The Native American Studies – University Of New Mexico 1994-2000, Native American Studies At Unm, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains information about The Native American Studies (NAS) program at UNM in its early beginnings, progress, and establishment as a leading intervention and retaining program to support Native American students in the state of New Mexico. Among the documents included in this file are copies of grants such as the Assuring equal access to Native Americans in New Mexico NTI/TIIAP Grant, a Progress report for the academic intervention and retention at NAS, UNM for the year 1993, Librarians working with Native American Communities, Proposal for funding Native American Libraries in New Mexico, library legislation, budget, 1996 World Indigenous …

Tribal Colleges, Rocky Mountain College

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence and newspaper clippings on colleges and postsecondary education in American Indian Tribes. A copy of the grant proposal entitled: American Indian Education: A partnership for change which is a program to increase American Indian enrollment, achievement, retention, and number of graduates At Rocky Mountain College is also included in this file.

Re-Visioning New Mexico, Inc. Community Economic Development Policy Project, Re-Visioning New Mexico

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains announcements, strategies-action plan for a Community Economic Development Policies in New Mexico Symposium to be held on April 28-29 1999. Also included in this file you will find a copy of the agenda for the Community Economic Development Tribal Leaders Symposium dated Sept. 28 1999, an issue of the Re-Vision New Mexico Reports, Fall 1994, and fliers concerning events organized by Re-Envisioning NM.

Native American Arts Alliance, Native American Arts Alliance

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains documentation of the preparations for the “Ceremonial” Art Exhibit which featured the work of eight contemporary Native American artists presented at the Zenobio Institute in Venice, Italy during la Biennale di Venezia 1999-2000. Drafts of proposals, minutes of meetings, invitations, fundraising exhibition plans, notes, news releases and clippings as well as communications related to this event are included.

Native American Arts, Atlatl-A Native American Arts And Service Organization

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a copy of a publication by the ATLATL Native American Arts Network: A special report on Issues in Contemporary American Indian: Art-Report on a symposium dated 1990, News clippings, a catalog of Native American Videos: the 1998-1999 collection by the Shenandoah Film Productions, and AIO’s correspondence including attachments of the Shenandoah newsletters Sept. 1995, Apr. 1997, and Nov. 1998

Language, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains newspaper and magazine clippings on American Indian languages and the Native American communities’ struggle to keep their languages and traditions alive.

Water Iii (In American Indian Country), Albuquerque Journal

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains newspaper clippings about New Mexico water and mineral resources in tribal territories.

Education, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of memoranda, resolutions, certifications, agreements, statutes, a plan of action, magazines on Native American Peoples’ education, a directory, and newspaper clippings focusing on American Indian education. Attachments include California Indian Education Association newsletters on the Reburial of American Indian Skeletal Remains, a copy of the agreement between the Chippewa Tribe and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a report on the Status of Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations under elementary and secondary education statutes- the U.S Department of Education, National Advisory Council on Indian Education-Newsletter, a copy of a sample of Pathways to Choices: Curriculum Guide for …

Venice Biennale Project, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

Correspondence of Native American Artists concerning the Venice Biennale project, an opportunity to change the world stereotype image of Indigenous people in the American Continent through an art exhibition and copies of the Venice Biennale guide and published news are contained in this file.

Tourism, The Rethinking Tourism Project

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

A flyer of The Rethinking Tourism Project (RTP) and a copy of a pilot project between the RTP and the AMAZANGA, The Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Pastaza (OPIP) and The Bilingual Education Program in Pastaza, Ecuador are included in this file.

Sovereignty, United States Court Of Appeals-Tenth Circuit

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a record of the United States Court of Appeals-Tenth Circuit on a case of sovereign immunity in the Osage Tribe. Attachments include clippings entitled ‘An American Conundrum” an editorial article on the question of Indian identity.

American Indian Movement (Aim), Timothy Baylor

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a case study of The American Indian Movement by Timothy Baylor. This study proposed to examine the antecedent and conditional factors which determined whether a government intervenes in a social movement to facilitate it or to repress the movement by examining the forms of intervention specifically those used by the FBI in the case of the American Indian Movement. Attached to this manuscript are letters and invitations to events pertinent to the AIM.

Ladonna Harris’ White Papers – Drafts, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains drafts and correspondence between La Donna Harris and editors for the publication of papers on: a chapter about American Indian and Alaska Native Women: Indian princess or woman warrior; Harmony through wisdom of the people (multiple updates); and a copy of a published paper entitled: ‘The wisdom of the people: A sharing and nurturing of Tribal Spirit”