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Direct linkMills, Kathy A., Ed.; Stornaiuolo, Amy, Ed.; Smith, Anna, Ed.; Pandya, Jessica Zacher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Writing (Composition), Literacy, Educational Technology
Warner, Linda Sue, Ed.; Gipp, Gerald E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
This volume of The David C. Anchin Research Center Series on Educational Policy in the 21st century: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions focuses on tribal colleges and universities. As a recent member of higher education community, tribal colleges and universities provide a unique perspective on higher education policy. Policies and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, World Views, American Indians, Alaska Natives
Penn, William S., Ed. – 1997
The narrative essays in this collection offer a vision of the race and identity of Native Americans, focusing on American Indians that have grown up in cities and towns. It is a unique collection in that it represents the ways that mixed blood people ("mixbloods") envision Indian race and heritage. It is also unique in that it extends the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Blacks, Essays, Ethnicity
Jones, Eliza, Ed.; And Others – 1989
This collection of eighteen traditional stories are told in Koyukon Athabaskan, an American Indian language variety spoken in Alaska, on the left page and in English translation on the right page. Introductory sections provide background information on the oral tradition from which the stories come, the translations, the storyteller and her…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, Athapascan Languages, English
Download full textEastman, Kristen Paletti, Ed.; Omura, Grace Inokuchi, Ed. – 1994
Fourth in a series, the annotated bibliographies in this collection were compiled by students in the Traditional Literature and Oral Narration class at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. These bibliographies are designed to make information about specific topics in traditional literature easily accessible…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Annotated Bibliographies, Cultural Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationGonzalez-Santin, Edwin, Comp. – 1992
This curriculum manual provides 8 days of training for child protective services (CPS) personnel (social workers and administrators) working in the White Mountain Apache tribal community. Each of the first seven units in the manual contains a brief description of contents, course objectives, time required, key concepts, possible discussion topics,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Child Abuse, Cross Cultural Training
Allen, Minerva, Comp. – 1983
This collection contains 21 brief stories told by members of the Fort Belknap (Montana) American Indian community. These tales of the Assiniboine, Sioux, and Gros Ventres include legends, ghost stories, and reminiscences of heroic deeds, traditional life, and unusual events. Recollections of the past contain descriptions of the daily life of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, Family Life
Brunette, Pauline, Ed. – 1980
Designed for use as supplementary reading material, the reader is a collection of short stories (1 to 3 pages in length) developed from interviews with 12 Chippewas living in the Minnesota areas of Cass Lake, Leech Lake, Inger, Pine Point, and White Earth. The interviewees represent various occupations including teacher, school principal, nurse,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Sanders, Thomas E.; Peek, Walter W. – 1976
From ancient stories of creation to contemporary poetry and prose, this volume ranges through thousands of years of the literature of the American Indian. Chapter One of the book deals with pre-Columbian religions and features accounts of the Creation by the Cheyenne, Navajo, Omaha, Yakima, Zuni, and Uitoto. Chapter Two has as its theme folk…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Anthologies
Noether, Lauren, Ed.; LaFromboise, Mary Ellen, Ed. – 1979
Ghost stories are universal. They are told and heard in different cultures throughout the world. They generally center around an incident or experience that is true, but that cannot be explained as an everyday occurence. True but unexplained experiences on the Blackfeet Reservation are told and retold in the winter months. In contemporary…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Trimble, Joseph E., Ed.; Beauvais, Fred, Ed. – 2001
Substance abuse continues to be one of the most damaging and chronic health problems faced by Indian people. American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) substance abuse prevention and treatment programs must be framed within the broader context of the widening health disparities between AI/AN communities and the general population. Successful…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Community Health Services
Blubaugh, Donelle; Borden, Carla, Ed. – 1996
The educational materials in this resource guide were developed from information collected from the 1991 and 1994 Festival of American Folklife programs held at the National Mall in Washington, DC. The festivals were held in connection with the 500th anniversary of Spanish contact with the Americas and were celebrations of the diversity and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Art Expression, Cultural Context
Tall Bull, Henry; Weist, Tom – 1971
The book takes its title from the first of nine Northern Cheyenne folk tales, illustrated by Indian children in grades 2-8. The stories are: "The Turtle Went to War" about a turtle who makes war on the Indians and takes two scalps; "The Cat", explaining why cats eat first and wash later; "The Frog and the Watersnake",…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, Childrens Literature
Nyman, Elizabeth; Leer, Jeff – 1993
The six legends told here, in Tlingit on the left page and in English on the right page, are told by Elizabeth Nyman, a Tlingit elder of the Taku River clan. The narratives represent a portion of the clan's oral history. Introductory sections provide some historical background concerning the clan, the story teller, and the traditions with which…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Languages
Old Coyote, Sally; Toineeta, Joy Yellowtail – 1971
Part of the Montana Council for Indian Education's Indian Culture Series, the book contains six folk stories recorded on reservations and by headstart teachers. The stories are: "The Owl", a Gros Ventre tale; "How the Robin Got a Red Breast", from the Flathead Tribe; "Old Man Coyote and the Wild Geese", a Crow Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, Childrens Literature
