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Implications For Child Welfare Teaching And Human Services Personnel Perspectives Experiences Of Children With Special Needs, Sarah Huesmann

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Family Involvement Strategies At The Meskwaki Settlement School, Carol Gary Meyer

Graduate Research Papers

When parents become involved in the education of their child research shows positive results for parents and children. However, not all parents know how to be meaningfully involved, and those that are involved may not understand all that is happening in their child's education.

At the Meskwaki Settlement School being meaningfully involved is an important issue to parents. There is a past history of fear of education due to forced removal to boarding schools far from families and cultural ties. There is a need for parents to connect not only with their child in the school but also with the …

Indigenous Languages Programmes In Australian Schools - A Way Forward, Nola Purdie, Tracey Frigo, Clare Ozolins, Geoff Noblett, Nick Thieberger, Janet Sharp

Indigenous Education Research

In 2008, over 16,000 Indigenous students and 13,000 non-Indigenous students located in 260 Australian schools were involved in an Indigenous language program. More than 80 different Indigenous languages were taught. This project sought to present practice which would strengthen the quality of Indigenous language programs in schools. The report consists of a literature review, a mapping exercise to document current practices relating to Indigenous languages in Australian schools, an analysis of existing models of teacher preparation, and six case studies of good practice examples.

The Ethics Of Intercultural Approaches To Indigenous Studies: Conjoining Natives And Palestinians In Context, Steven Salaita

Faculty Journal Articles

Salaita argues that the project of Indigenous Studies is inherently comparative, citing numerous examples of productive intercultural scholarship, he explores historical, cultural, and politicalrelationships among Native North Americans and Palestinian Arabs to illuminate some of the ways that comparison offers the potential for new directions in both scholarly and activist communities. He contextualizes this analysis with a broader discussion of the ethics of scholarship in Indigenous Studies, paying special attention to the relationship of nationalistic commitment to intercultural methodologies.

The Case For Change : A Review Of Contemporary Research On Indigenous Education Outcomes, Suzanne Mellor, Matthew Corrigan

Australian Education Review

AER 47 examines the research evidence underpinning current government policy developed over the last two decades in an attempt to improve the educational outcomes of indigenous students. It reviews and analyses existing educational research into the precursors and concomitant factors that contribute to educational achievement for students generally and for indigenous students in particular. It argues that current policy is insufficiently underpinned by substantive research, and that changes should be made, both to research methodology and to policy content.

Effective Reading Comprehension Strategies For Native American Adolescents With Reading Difficulties, Mary C. La Velle

All Graduate Projects

The need for culturally appropriate reading comprehension pedagogy for Native American Adolescents was studied in light of multicultural philosophies. The historical trend to assimilate this group of students rather than acknowledge their unique contributions was an area targeted for improvement in this project. A need was established to target reading comprehension since the evidence points to a lack of explicit instruction in this area for middle school students. Strategies for promoting reading comprehension were identified in a teacher's manual that will be used in conjunction with the novel, Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech. Colville Tribal Elders discussed the comprehension …

Resources To Support And Expand Native American Kindergarteners Shared Reading Experiences Integrated With Open Court Unit 6, Stephanie Lynn Hull

All Graduate Projects

Relevant literature pertaining to shared reading, the benefits of shared reading, shared reading and the diverse learner and recommendations for the Native American learner was studied. The need for using culturally relevant material in the classroom and creating a positive learning environment for Native American students was discussed. A project utilizing shared reading strategies in the kindergarten classroom was created for teacher use in the Mount Adams School District. The project included the integration of culturally relevant stories with the objectives of Open Court Unit 6. The project also included a list of resources available from the Harrah Elementary School …

Comparison Of Grade Point Average Of Honor Senior Students And College Of Liberal Arts Senior Students At A Florida University, Iwasan D. Kejawa

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Theses and Other Student Research

Attrition rates in theHonor College program division of Florida Atlantic University have risen in recent years. It has been determined that even though a higher high school grade point average is required for admission into the honor program of the university, many applicants to the program were under-prepared to asumme the workload demanded of the students by the Honor College. The requirements for admission into the honor program of the Florida Atlantic University is an overall high school grade point average of 3.5 and a score of 1000 points on the SAT examination while the requirement into the College of …

American Indian Doctorate Receipt 1980-2000: A Quantitative And Qualitative Analysis, Timothy Lintner

Faculty Publications

This research presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of American Indian doctorate receipt between 1980-2000. A quantitative analysis of American Indian doctorate receipt by sex and by broadfield category is initially presented. This research also sought to qualitatively explore the multiple factors that influence American Indians to receive and utilize their doctorate in the field of Education. Interviews with 16 American Indian doctorate recipients in the field of Education from the University of Oklahoma, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University were conducted. Findings revealed that issues of community, personal and professional interest, and voice and access were all …

Educational Decision-Making, Gender, And The Question Of Sustainable Development In Rural Kenya, Nathan Ziegler

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Diversity And Learning In The Early Years Of School, Tracey Frigo, Isabelle Adams

Indigenous Education Research

This paper reports on a longitudinal study being conducted by Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and a team of Aboriginal consultants in thirteen schools across Australia, which is following the progress of a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in their early years of schooling. The data collected includes measures of early literacy and numeracy, complemented by qualitative data gathered through interviews, questionnaires and observation. The paper describes the diverse learning environments experienced by this group of children, and the many ways that schools and teachers are attempting to maximise effective learning environments for these children in …

Journey To Understanding: An Introduction To North Dakota Tribes, Cheryl Ann Kary, Native American Training Institute

North Dakota Tribal History and Culture Series

Journey to Understanding: An Introduction to North Dakota Tribes is an introductory booklet intended to give a quick overview of Indigenous culture in North Dakota. It is a starting point for the rest of the North Dakota Tribal History & Culture series. The booklet explains the names and backgrounds of the nations that share geography with North Dakota. It also teaches basic cultural competency to facilitate interaction for people from a different background. The content is presented in the form of self-quizzes with provided answers. Journey to Understanding was originally used within the North Dakota Department of Human Services (NDDHS) …

Gabrielino/Tongva Bibliography, Brianne Gillen, G. Edward Evans

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This bibliography brings together publications about the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation of Southern California. It includes books, periodical and newspaper articles, dissertations, and government documents, and covers the Nation’s rich history, from prehistoric times to the present. The bibliography is inspired by Mary La Lone’s Gabrielino Indians of Southern California: An Annotated Ethnohistoric Bibliography, and continues where she left off in 1976. Her bibliography contained 182 items, all of which are included in this volume as well as 374 items post 1976.

One of the goals of the project was to acquire as many of the items for the Loyola Marymount University …

Native Image Logo, Hank Lehrer, Brent D. Bowen

Introduction

Native Image Logo

Winnebago Tribal Council, Hank Lehrer, Brent D. Bowen

Curriculum Development

Winnebago Tribal Council 2002

“Making-Face, Making-Heart”: The Spiritual Foundations Of An Indigenous Pedagogy, Ralph Casas

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

The author argues for the construction of pedagogical strategies that respect the learner’s context and cognitive framework, aiming for the development of an indigenous ecology of education. He brings the insights of Latin American and U.S. Latino/a theology into consideration, suggesting that the dialogue between Christian and indigenous Mesoamerican religious traditions can be both productive and practical.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Cherokee Education: Balancing History, Culture, Language And Traditions With Modern Methods And Technology To Prepare Students For The 21st Century, Patricia Day Schafer

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Cherokees have always been known for being leaders of all Native Americans and for their broad-mindedness in education. It has been a population that has valued education throughout its known history and has always placed an emphasis on educating its own people. Education has become a means to improve not only their children's ability to read, write, and interpret but to help them understand and maintain the Cherokee history, culture, language, and traditions and to help prepare their youth for the future. This Cherokee historical analysis from the early 1800's to the present time was studied and reviewed to …

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.

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.

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 …

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