American Indian Education Resources

General

American Indian Education Links Northern Arizona University

American Indian Policy Center the Institute is a center for research, policy development and education on critical Indian issues.

Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors (AIANP):Statement on Ethnic Fraud Racial Expoitation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in American Colleges and Universities

AIANP Commentary on Annual Conference: Haskell Indian Nations Uniersity and the University of Kansas Interesting commentary by Luci Tapahonso

Addresses of American Indian Schools

Tribal Colleges

American Indian Colleges and Universities

American Indian Institute Serving North American Indian Tribes of the United States and First Nations of Canada

BIA Education Education Consortium

A Critical Bibliographyon North American Indians Smithsonian Institution: "Images of Native Americans are all around us. They appear in movies, television, books, and sports; are used as symbols and logos for tires, butter, the environment, carpeting, and automobiles; and show up at different times of year as Halloween costumes, in Boy Scout and Campfire Girl rituals, and as guests at Thanksgiving feasts. Few of these images have any basis in reality, drawn as they are from one of the most closely held beliefs of American mythology. Indeed, even Indians themselves sometimes have a difficult time separating the reality of their lives as human beings from the fantasy expected of them by the rest of America. "

First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories

Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel Program Humbolt University

Issues in Native American Education The gap in educational achievement between white and non-white ethnic groups, cultural dissonance between the dominant and non-dominant culture, assimilation and integration of Native American culture, cultural perceptions of Native Americans by the "white" culture, classroom climate, and solutions. (Arizona State University 1997)

Native American Education Resources Native Education Directory: Organizations and Resources for Educators of Native Americans 1997

Native American Net: Education

Native Education Directory Native Education Directory Organizations and Resources for Educators of Native Americans The Native Education Directory includes organizations, governmental agencies, and schools that are involved in the education of Native students and serve a statewide, multistate, or national audience.

National Association for Bilingual Education

Cultural Diversity in the Classroom From Teacher Talk, School of Education, Indiana University

National Indian Policy Center (NIPC): Policy Papers

American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Tribal College Journal

American Indian Schools, Colleges and Universities

School, College and University Indices

American Indian Colleges and Universities

Native American Schools

Tribal College Locations

Reservation-Located Colleges



Bay Mills Community College Brimley, Minnesota

Blackfeet Community College Browning, Montana. and Description1. School description 2. Admissions 3. Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Candeska Cicana Community College. Description: 1. School description 2. Admissions 3. Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Dine College Diné College is definitely the place to be if you envision an education rich in Navajo culture, language, history and traditional teachings that integrate meaning and purpose into the western academic education. Description: 1. School description 2. Admissions 3. Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Dull Knife Memorial College (Cheyenne) and Description1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Fond du Lac Tribal College (Anishinaabe)

Fort Belknap College (Assiniboine-Gros Ventre)and Description 1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Fort Berthold Community College (Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan) and Description1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Fort Peck Community College(Assiniboine-Sioux)

Little Bighorn College(Apsaroke)

College of the Menominee Nation

Native American Educational Services: Fort Peck Campus and Menominee Campus

Navajo Community College

Oglala Lakota College and Oglala Lakota Nursing Department "Piya Wiconi"



Pima Community College and Description1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Salish Kootenai College and Description1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Sisseton Wahpeton Community College(Dakota) and Description1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Stone Child College (Chippewa-Cree) and Description 1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Turtle Mountain Community College (Anishinaabe)

Warm Springs Reservation Oregon State University Extension

Non-Reservation Located Institutes and Universities

American Indian Studies Research Institute

Center for Indigenous Theatre

Center for Multilingual-Multicultural Research: Native Americans



Seal of D-Q University

D-Q University

The 4Directions Community

Haskell Indian Nations University and Haskell Indian Nations University School of Humanities A Description of Haskell University: 1. School description 2. Admissions Curriculum 4. Student Body 5. Student Life 6. Cost/Financial Aid

Institute of American Indian Arts

Institute of American Indian Studies-South Dakota

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Education: Language and Culture

LEARNING STYLES

American Indian Learning Styles Survey: An Assessment of Teachers' Knowledge The Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, v. 13 pp. 59-77, Spring 1994.

Assessment for American Indian and Alaska Native Learners The essay describes studies that have shown the inadequacies of these assessment methods as well as theories that attempted to explain the poor test results of the AI/AN population.

American Indian Learning Styles

Culturally Responsive Teaching for American Indian Students Includes sections on (1) Diversity within the American Indian Population, (2) Tribal Language Versus English, (3) Cultural Identity (4) American Indian Family Structure



The Dene

Dene Kede: Education: A Dene Perspective A Dene view of the meaning of education. Excellent resource. A must for understanding the Dene point of view. Contains chapters on the place of elders,language, family in the Dene culture (Tribes of the Northwest Territories in Canada: eg. the Slavey, Yellowknife, the Dogrib, the Gwich'in)

"A frame for the Native intellect: celebrated, solicited, and revealed"Reflective thinker, sage, philosopher, and teacher are four words used to define, extend or replace scholar*. A word frequently used for scholar is intellectual.

"Young Seminoles and Natural Math" From The Journal of Educational Issues of Language Monority Students 1996 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

"American Indian Culture and Curriculum: A Guide to Literature" M. Hermes. From The Tribal College Journal - 1997 (Journal of American Indian Higher Education Consortium-AIHEC)

Cultural Values and Beliefs "Cultural Values and Beliefs [belong] to the Tribal Members not to be sold for profit. It's like a person recieving His or Her own spiritual Gift from the Spirits. It is given freely to be use to help people, the same way He or She has recieved it. "

"Identifying Scholars on the Tribal Community" (1996)This paper provides an overview of the Northern Cheyenne concepts of education and the dichotomy that exists between this tribe's view of reality and that view held by the mainstream culture. From this perspective, insights are provided to show how the Northern Cheyenne perceive scholars and the work they do in the community. Further, a discussion is included to demonstrate how oppression on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation detracts from tribal scholarship.

"Issues in American Indian Research: The Perspective of a Reservation Indian""Historically, American Indian communities have endured inaccurate and damaging findings in research studies because of (among other reasons) unrestricted access, questionable methodologies, broad cultural generalizations and a disregard for the cultural and spiritual beliefs of tribal communities." T. Peacock, University of Minnesota

LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY

Language Activists Panel Summary Jon Reyner 1995

"Maintaining Languages: What Works? What Doesn't?" Joshua Fishman

Navajo Language Immersion Programs in Arizona Center for Excellence in Education, Flagstaff

"What Do You Lose When You Lose Your Language?" Joshua Fishman

"What My Hualapai Language Means To Me" Damon Clarke

MULTICULTURALISM

Multiculturalism: A Definition

Native American Multicultural Education NAMES is an innovative adult education project that nurtures a reclaiming of individual power through the education process. Thereby it provides opportunities for employment, job advancement, vocational or college education, career-building, increased self-esteem, improved leadership potential and cultural understanding.

Countering Prejudice Against American Indians and Alaska Natives Through Antibias Curriculum and Instruction

EDUCATION ISSUES

Blueprints for Indian Education

Education Issues on Reservation Colleges From The Tribal College Journal - 1997 (Journal of American Indian Higher Education Consortium-AIHEC) Education: Bicultural-Bilingual

Education Issues on Reservation Colleges 2 From The Tribal College Journal - 1997 (Journal of American Indian Higher Education Consortium-AIHEC)

American Indian Education California Department of Education: Needs of American Indian Students, American Indian Education Programs, References. An excellent resource

Internet Stategies for Empowering Indigenous Communities in Teaching and Learning A Paper presented at the 1996 Annual Conference of the Internet Society

Drop-out Rates Among American Indian and Alaska Natives: Beyond Cultural Discontinuity Is cultural continuity the answer?

Effective Instructional Conversation in Native American ClassroomsNational Center on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning (1994)

"A Guide to Literature on Reforming American Indian Research" R. Christensen, T. Peacock. From The Tribal College Journal - 1997 (Journal of American Indian Higher Education Consortium-AIHEC)

Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel

A Short Statement on Indigenous Education Systems

American Indian Education BiasThe Journal of Educational Issue of Language Minority Students, V. 15, Winter 1995. Boise State University

"Native Scholarship: Explorations in the New Frontier" M. Ambler. From The Tribal College Journal - 1997 (Journal of American Indian Higher Education Consortium-AIHEC) Education: Bicultural-Bilingual

"Reinvisioning American Indian Education" M. Ambler. From The Tribal College Journal - 1997 (Journal of American Indian Higher Education Consortium-AIHEC)

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Acculturation and Assimilation

"Education of Native Americans: Hampton Institute 1878-1923" and its history Susan Han, Duke University

The Carlisle Classroom A view of the classroom

The Carlisle Indian School it's history and roster of students (1879-1918) "The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion." Henry Ward Beecher

"Naming the Indians." American Monthly Review of Reviews 15 (Mar. 1897): 301-307. (by Frank Terry: Superintendant of US Boarding School For Crow Indians, Montana. 1897)

"Simon Pokagon on Naming the Indians." American Monthly Review of Reviews 16 (Sept. (1897): 320-321.

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