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Native American Indian Female Students In Higher Education, Becky Youngbear Jan 1998

Native American Indian Female Students In Higher Education, Becky Youngbear

Graduate Research Papers

Colleges and universities have witnessed a significant increase in the number of underrepresented student populations but are just beginning to become aware of their needs. These students encounter academic and social problems prior to and after entering colleges and universities. Institutional awareness and support are just a start in an effort to retain and assist underrepresented students in college. Among these underrepresented groups are Native American Indians who are challenged to succeed in a Eurocentric higher education setting.

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Ebonics: The Political Process Through A Glass Darkly, Ibpp Editor Jan 1997

Ebonics: The Political Process Through A Glass Darkly, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the ebonics (black English) controversy.

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Tourism, The Rethinking Tourism Project Jan 1997

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.

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Sovereignty, United States Court Of Appeals-Tenth Circuit Jan 1997

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.

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Venice Biennale Project, Author Unknown Jan 1997

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.

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Nnawg Meeting Minutes, Yvonne Bushyhead, Shuler Houser, Chuck Squier, Virgil Likness, Hank R. Lehrer, Brent D. Bowen, Micheala Schaaf, Don Dendinger, Joanne Lofton Jan 1997

Nnawg Meeting Minutes, Yvonne Bushyhead, Shuler Houser, Chuck Squier, Virgil Likness, Hank R. Lehrer, Brent D. Bowen, Micheala Schaaf, Don Dendinger, Joanne Lofton

Program Goals

Items discussed: Tribal School/UNO future educational partnerships; joint research and grant writing opportunities; scholarship opportunities and funding mechanisms; curriculum development for improving K - 12 mathematics, science, and technology education through the use of aeronautics; faculty enhancement workshops; development of a Nebraska Model of Best Practice; and future interstate, regional, and national Native American/NASA Space Grant initiatives. Asa result of this meeting, a number of annual scholarships and organizational enhancements were provided to the 2 tribal colleges and the 4 reservations schools. The working group met several times within the next few years and continues to maintain close contact with …

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Rhetorical Theory And The Carlisle Indian School: Consideration Of Richard Henry Pratt And His Pedagogy, Deborah J. Oesch Nov 1996

Rhetorical Theory And The Carlisle Indian School: Consideration Of Richard Henry Pratt And His Pedagogy, Deborah J. Oesch

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Deborah J. Oesch on November 23, 1996.

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Lenape Yesterday & Today: A Traveling Artifact Box For The National Museum Of The American Indian, Heloisa Sisla Cinquetti Jan 1996

Lenape Yesterday & Today: A Traveling Artifact Box For The National Museum Of The American Indian, Heloisa Sisla Cinquetti

Graduate Student Independent Studies

An artifact box project designed for the National Museum of the American Indian to educate students in the New York City area about the Lenape or Delaware Native Americans. Addresses the need to offer handling objects with interpretive activities for the teacher and students in the classroom.

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Sports Mascots, Author Unknown Jan 1996

Sports Mascots, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence and attachments concerning protests against Pro-Football teams’ names and college sports mascots using American Indian names in a derogatory, racist, and disrespectful way.

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Self-Determination, Author Unknown Jan 1996

Self-Determination, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

U.S. Congressional records of the 100th Congress 1st session of September 16, 1987 on the acknowledgement and reaffirmation of the government to government relationship with Native American Indian Tribes, a copy of a conference paper entitled ‘Indian Self-determination the Ideal and Indian Self-Governance the Reality’ by Joseph De La Cruz President of the Quinault Indian Nation, a manuscript of an article entitled ‘Native American Organizers” by Helena Nyerges, a speech by Reuben A. Snake Jr. Tribal Chairman of Winnebago Tribe entitled ‘Toward effective, stable tribal government’ and clippings on Self-Determination and Indigenous rights are included in this file.

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American Indian Movement (Aim), Timothy Baylor Jan 1996

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.

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Ladonna Harris’ White Papers – Drafts, Ladonna Harris Jan 1996

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”

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Indiannet Reports For Epa And Other Systems Corporations, Indiannet Jan 1996

Indiannet Reports For Epa And Other Systems Corporations, Indiannet

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains copies of final and quarterly reports on contracts and agreements that INDIANnet submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and The Apple Corporation. These reports provide information about accomplishments and contributions of INDIANnet, fulfillment of contracts and agreements with federal agencies, systems improvements, data, new users, publicity about INDIANnet and AIO, new or on-going initiatives, barriers and solutions as well as future plans.

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Religion In American Indian Communities, Author Unknown Jan 1995

Religion In American Indian Communities, Author Unknown

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains newspaper clippings on Catholicism and American Indians, the Methodist church conflict with Native American rites, Indians lift up traditions offer reconciliation, Symbols and Bravura by American Indians, and the banishment of a religious leader in Cochiti Pueblo.

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Project Manager For Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Ladonna Harris Jan 1995

Project Manager For Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a collection of memoranda and communications about conducting a series of discussions and focus groups between the U.S. Army and the Zuni and Navajo tribes concerning the clean-up of non-stockpile chemical material in a safe, environmentally, and cost effective manner in areas neighboring former U.S. Army posts, such as Fort Wingate located in the vicinity of both tribes.

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What Is Indiannet? Information Systems, Indiannet Jan 1995

What Is Indiannet? Information Systems, Indiannet

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a set of draft images along with a brief definition and goals of INDIANnet.

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Indigenous Leaders Of America – Fomento Y Capacitación Del Liderazgo Indígena En América, Jose Matos Mar Jan 1995

Indigenous Leaders Of America – Fomento Y Capacitación Del Liderazgo Indígena En América, Jose Matos Mar

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a copy of a proposal faxed to LaDonna Harris and AIO for starting a program in the ethno-development of the Indigenous peoples of all America. Because this proposal was originated in Mexico City, the content of this proposal is written in Spanish.

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Indiannet 1991-94, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1994

Indiannet 1991-94, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a progress report about the development of INDIANnet for the 1991-1994 period. INDIANnet, Inc., a telecommunications network for tribal communities aimed to provide accurate and timely information on and for tribes. In a true public-private partnership, INDIANnet was developed with interested tribes and several federal agencies.

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New Mexico Commission On The Status Of Women 1992-1994, Nm Commission On The Status Of Women Jan 1994

New Mexico Commission On The Status Of Women 1992-1994, Nm Commission On The Status Of Women

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence of New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women with U.S senators and other organizations to support the Women’s telecommunications Project. Attachments include copies of the proposal, comments by Prof. Robin Douthitt from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, remarks by Camille Haney, president of the Haney Group and copies of News releases, flyers, announcements, and communications.

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Indian Gaming, Ladonna Harris Jan 1994

Indian Gaming, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence, testimonies, senators’ statements, Senate hearings, resolutions, drafts of amendments and checklists, reports, copies of congressional record-senate, a bill, and communications between LaDonna Harris President of the Americans for Indian Opportunity and members of the U.S. Senate, tribal leaders, and the President of the United States regarding the Native American gaming legislation and Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Amendments.

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Americans For Indian Opportunity – Indiannet, Ladonna Harris, Judy Kane, Indiannet Jan 1994

Americans For Indian Opportunity – Indiannet, Ladonna Harris, Judy Kane, Indiannet

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains a grant application to fund the second phase of INDIANnet, the first national Indian-owned computer network to provide information useful to American Indians and Alaska Natives. Copies of published INDIANnet Newsletters, news clippings, and drafts of the grant are also included.

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Indiannet Telecommunications Network Project, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio) Jan 1994

Indiannet Telecommunications Network Project, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio)

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains plans, budgets, a TIIAP Planning Grant and a timetable prepared by UNM Native American Studies. AIO's correspondence with sponsors and the New Mexico State Senate, the UNM Board of Regents, news clippings, drafts of reports, discussions, meetings, and grants to promote equity of access to Native American Communities are included.

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Cooperative Learning Effects On The Self-Esteem Of Native American Indians, Catherine G. Pritzlaff Aug 1993

Cooperative Learning Effects On The Self-Esteem Of Native American Indians, Catherine G. Pritzlaff

Master's Essays (1922 - )

The Native American Indian is sometimes a forgotten minority group within the American School system. They do have special needs which are a result of their culture and background. This paper explores the use of cooperative learning to enhance the self-esteem of the Native American students. The concept of self-esteem and academic achievement have been linked together through research studies.

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The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico, Alfred L. Parker, Unm Jan 1993

The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico, Alfred L. Parker, Unm

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This study examines the economic relationship of New Mexico Indians to the state’s economy with the purpose of developing facts that will help to define that relationship. The discussion and analysis presented in this report is based primarily on information collected from survey documents distributed to New Mexico State agencies and survey documents distributed to a number of New Mexico Indian tribes and pueblos in late 1992 and early 1993.

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The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico – Draft, Alfred L. Parker, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm Jan 1993

The Economic And Fiscal Importance Of American Indians In New Mexico – Draft, Alfred L. Parker, Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This is a draft of The Economic and Fiscal Importance of American Indians in New Mexico: A research report prepared by Alfred L. Parker, Professor of Economics-University of New Mexico in cooperation with Americans for Indian Opportunity and the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs.

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Business Realities In Indian Country: A Brief Introduction For Corporate America, Alan Parker Jan 1993

Business Realities In Indian Country: A Brief Introduction For Corporate America, Alan Parker

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

In this booklet the author discusses the characteristics which distinguish the business environment on most Native American reservations to identify relative advantages and disadvantages for the purpose of dispelling possible confusion or misperceptions.

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Collective Design Of The Tribal Future: Structural Analysis Of Vision Statements Constructed By The People Of The Apache, Cheyenne, And Arapaho, Comanche, And Pawnee Tribes, Benjamin J. Broom Jan 1993

Collective Design Of The Tribal Future: Structural Analysis Of Vision Statements Constructed By The People Of The Apache, Cheyenne, And Arapaho, Comanche, And Pawnee Tribes, Benjamin J. Broom

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This paper reports on the results of recent design sessions conducted with several tribes in Oklahoma. During 1991 and 1992 the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), a national Native American Organization concerned with Tribal Governance processes worked for Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity (OIO) to sponsor a series of four projects that included participative design sessions with the Apache, Cheyenne & Arapaho, and Pawnee Tribes of Oklahoma. The research methodology is described as participant centered, contextually embedded, dialogically based, integrated, and participant validated.

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Tribal Economic Flows (Continued), Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm Barc Jan 1993

Tribal Economic Flows (Continued), Americans For Indian Opportunity (Aio), Unm Barc

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains proposal drafts with annotations, correspondence, and communications with New Mexico State government officials, UNM partners, Indian Affairs, and tribal leaders concerning the Rural Economies: The Contributions of Tribal Economies to local, state, and regional economies project.

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The Wounded Knee, Tiyospaye Crisis Center-National Park Service Jan 1993

The Wounded Knee, Tiyospaye Crisis Center-National Park Service

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence from the Tiyospaye Crisis Center in Denver, Colorado to the Wounded Knee tribe in South Dakota concerning a proposal to build the Sacred Hoop Wounded Knee Community Center and Historic Site. A copy of a brief proposal, congressional records, and a printed version of the draft study of alternatives and environmental assessments of the Wounded Knee are included.

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Tribal Economic Flows: The Economic Contribution Of Native Americans To The New Mexico State Economy, Ladonna Harris Jan 1993

Tribal Economic Flows: The Economic Contribution Of Native Americans To The New Mexico State Economy, Ladonna Harris

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This file contains correspondence, drafts and notes on the Tribal Economic Flows project (continued). Included are survey instruments and drafts of The New Mexico Tribal Economic Profile Summary Project developed with the assistance of the Ford Foundation to gather data covering tribally owned businesses, tribal natural resources, development, culture, and tourism to illustrate the significance of Tribal economies to the State economy.

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