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Arpan, Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Educational attainment and educational success have often been linked to an increase in opportunities in life and when viewed from the lens of lifelong earnings the greater an individual's educational attainment the greater the lifelong earnings. As a population, Native Americans have the highest poverty rate of all racial categories in the United…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Tribally Controlled Education, Student Motivation, Barriers
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Emerson, Larry – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2006
The article offers the author's comments on the Niitsitapi Education Program initiated by Red Crow Community College in Canada. The program was aimed at promoting Kainai knowledge and culture as the basis for student learning. The program was widely appreciated by students as well as their parents. It was harder than the regular teaching program…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Maintenance, Student Attitudes