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Brush, Stephen B., Ed.; Stabinsky, Doreen, Ed. – 1996
Intellectual property enables individuals to gain financially from sharing unique and useful knowledge. Compensating indigenous people for sharing their knowledge and resources might both validate and be an equitable reward for indigenous knowledge of biological resources, and might promote the conservation of those resources. This book contains…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Biodiversity, Conservation (Environment)
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Inst. for Environmental Studies. – 1992
The Human Values and the Environment Conference grew out of growing concern about the accelerating deterioration of global environmental quality and the danger of building of a value-free approach to how the environment should be managed. The conference's steering committee tailored the conference to consider some of humanity's religious and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Beliefs, Buddhism, Christianity
Haller, Edwin W., Ed.; Myers, Ruth A., Ed. – 1986
This document contains edited versions of tape-recorded speeches given at a conference titled "American Indians and Alaskan Natives in Biomedical Research." The proceedings is divided into two sections: "Research in the Biomedical Sciences: American Indians Speak Out" that includes presentations on aspects of biomedical careers and their federal…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Download full textJoe, Jennie R., Ed. – 1986
American Indians have suffered a series of alterations in federal/tribal relations with rebuilding of Indian communities revived one moment but dashed the next by changes in national policy. This collection of papers focuses on consequences of an ever-changing American Indian policy and its impact on the lives and cultural values of American…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indian Studies
Native American Educational Services, Inc., Chicago, IL. – 1988
The "Declaration of Indian Purpose" produced by the American Indian Chicago Conference in 1961 needs to be recognized and extended to meet the needs and common political concerns of American Indians today. This publication provides the complete text and the appendices to this earlier document, and includes papers in which Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, American Indian Reservations
Tooker, Elisabeth, Ed. – 1967
Although the Iroquois are one of the most thoroughly studied Indian peoples of this continent, many important aspects of their history and culture remain unexplained. For the past 20 years the Conference on Iroquois Research has reported on current research and discussed needs and opportunities for future research. Twenty papers are included in…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Anthropology
Piper, June-el, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 29 papers presented at the 7th-10th Navajo Studies Conferences, 1994-97. The papers are arranged in five sections: "Aesthetics: Rugs, Baskets, and Rock Art"; "Doing Anthropology"; "Health"; "Economics"; and "Contact between Cultures." The papers are: "The First Navajo Studies Conference: Reflections by the Cofounders"…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, Anthropology
Gilbert, Larry L., Ed.; Lantaff, Ronald, Ed. – 1976
A report on the 1976 Pacific Northwest Conference on Higher Education includes introductory comments on a nontraditional conference by Ronald Lantaff, three addresses on the non-traditional student, panel discussions, and information about the business session, member institutions, conference participants, and conference proceedings. In the first…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Articulation (Education), College Students
Cook, Katsi; And Others – Akwe:kon Journal, 1993
Seven Native American women (including Mohawk, Bolivian, Apache, Nicaraguan Miskito, and Hopi women) discuss women's responsibilities and roles within the family and community, spirituality, birth and puberty ceremonies, child rearing and traditional education of the young (particularly girls), the healing of men through women, union organizing in…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Child Rearing, Family (Sociological Unit)
College Board, New York, NY. – 1989
In 1987-88, some 150 American Indian students, parents, tribal leaders, and educators participated in seven regional dialogues on the reforms needed in American Indian education. Participants gave a clear message that Indians want direct control over educational institutions serving their children, curriculum reform to make cultural retention an…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Biculturalism
Haller, Edwin W., Ed.; Aitken, Larry P., Ed. – 1992
This book consists of papers and panel discussions presented at a conference that focused on encouraging American Indian and Alaska Native students to enter the field of biomedical research. Research and treatment of diseases among Native populations can best be carried out by American Indian and Alaska Native researchers who have a background in…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Sanderson, Priscilla Lansing, Ed.; Gahungu, Athanase, Ed. – 1999
A workshop aimed to increase participant knowledge about how to improve vocational rehabilitation (VR) services for American Indians with alcohol disorders. Objectives included dissemination of results of a national research project; an overview of issues related to rehabilitation, alcohol abuse, and American Indian people; and specific…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, American Indian Culture, American Indians
Dufrene, Phoebe – 1990
This paper described the events and results of a workshop on Native American symbolism presented to educators and held in Kansas City, Missouri. The presenter maintained that some of the most crucial problems facing U.S. educators and students are caused by racial misunderstandings, and that the universality of artistic expression can be a vehicle…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, Art Activities, Art Appreciation
Lewy, Rafael, Ed.; Henry, Alberta, Ed. – 1980
Presentations from a symposium series sponsored by the Salt Lake City School District and the Utah Endowment for the Humanities in the spring of 1980 describe the family customs and ethnic traditions of Asians, Blacks, Greeks, Native Americans, Polynesians, and Hispanics. The first presentation notes the differences between Asians who have been in…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Philp, Kenneth R., Ed. – 1986
Keynote addresses and panel sessions at a conference examining Indian history in the 50 years since the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) are collected in this volume. Part One discusses the Indian New Deal and federal Indian policy from 1933-1945. Part Two deals with 1945-1960 and the federal policy of terminating tribal status. Part…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indians, Federal Indian Relationship
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