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Download full textRegion 13 Comprehensive Center, 2022
In the past year, the Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC), Region 13 Comprehensive Center (R13CC), and Regional Educational Laboratory West (REL West) partnered to convene directors of Indian education at state education agencies (SEAs) to learn together, explore challenges and opportunities of practice, and advance equity for Native students.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkDavid E. K. Smith – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2025
I examine the educational properties of Iñupiaq songs and dances showing how they convey critical cultural knowledge, practical skills, and teach the value system of the Iñupiaq people. The practice of Alaska Native dance, a fundamental pedagogical strategy, was limited for 100 years by oppressive colonial forces. Framed in revitalization efforts,…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Alaska Natives, Singing, Dance
Speridon Simeonoff Sr.; Judy Simeonoff; Teacon Simeonoff; Speridon Simeonoff Jr.; Sven Haakanson Jr.; Cheri Simeonoff; Balika Haakanson; Leilani Sabzalian – Rural Educator, 2024
Each August, Sugpiaq Elders, community members, and educators gather in Cape Alitak to host Akhiok Kids Camp, a week-long culture camp that provides a space for local Sugpiaq youth to learn and carry forward traditional lifeways and promotes youth's self-esteem, identity, and healthy choices. This article traces the legacy of the camp and outlines…
Descriptors: Resident Camp Programs, Cultural Education, Indigenous Populations, Alaska Natives
Deal, Kitty Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2019
"Qik'rtam Litnauwistai" (Island's Teachers) was a multi-tiered, community-based, participatory action research project initiated as a direct response to both community and institutional recommendations to "grow our own" Alutiiq educators. The study (a) examined current departmental practices in teacher education at Kodiak…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Recruitment
Kellie, Cordelia Qigñaaq – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2020
Located in Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, I?isagvik College draws from the strength of its Arctic community, striving to equip its graduates with the knowledge and skills to ensure their success. The institution's mission is "providing academic, vocational and technical education in a learning environment that perpetuates and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Indigenous Populations, Culturally Relevant Education, American Indian Education
Shannon Davidson; Mandy Smoker Broaddus; Lymaris Santana – Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Indigenous methodologies for guiding, advising, and educating children have been in place since time immemorial. Those well-honed approaches to education were built to support whole and healthy individual development while also establishing a lifelong awareness and reverence for community, connection, kinship, and reciprocity. In Western cultures,…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Story Telling, Indigenous Knowledge, Second Language Learning
Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, 2020
Even though many of Alaska's students are getting a good education, historically Alaska has some of the largest achievement gaps in the country. Compared to other states in America, Alaska ranks at or near the bottom in reading and math scores. This document is a call to action. Thousands of Alaskans have stepped up to answer this call and have…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Alaska Natives, Public Education, Educational Quality
Hu, Helen – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
Linda Lomahaftewa, a noted painter, has taught at much bigger places than the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). But Lomahaftewa, who is Hopi-Choctaw, and others on the faculty of IAIA are intensely devoted to the mission of this small but unique school. IAIA--the nation's only four-year fine arts institution devoted to American Indian and…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Alaska Natives, American Indians, American Indian Education
Mack, Elizabeth; Augare, Helen; Cloud-Jones, Linda Different; David, Dominique; Gaddie, Helene Quiver; Honey, Rose E.; Kawagley, Angayuqaq O.; Plume-Weatherwax, Melissa Little; Fight, Lisa Lone; Meier, Gene; Pete, Tachini; Leaf, James Rattling; Returns From Scout, Elvin; Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie; Shibata, Hi'ilani; Valdez, Shelly; Wippert, Rachel – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
There are a growing number of informal science education (ISE) programs in Native communities that engage youth in science education and that are grounded in Native ways of knowing. There is also a growing body of research focusing on the relationship between culture, traditional knowledge, and science education. However, there is little research…
Descriptors: Expertise, American Indian Education, Science Education, Indigenous Populations
Duckenfield, Marty, Ed. – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network (NDPC/N), 2012
The "National Dropout Prevention Newsletter" is published quarterly by the National Dropout Prevention Center/Network. This issue contains the following articles: (1) Traditional Native American Education; (2) Who Counts as Native? (Dawn Mackety); (3) GAINS in the Bering Strait (Carl White); (4) SIENA: Comprehensive Education for Native…
Descriptors: Dropouts, American Indians, American Indian Education, Dropout Prevention
Conarro, Ryan – Teaching Artist Journal, 2011
In this article, the author relates his experience working for the Department of Education as an "arts content coach" and visiting in rural Alaska's schools. He shares how he is guiding the youths in analyzing the visual elements of stage pictures so that they can create their own tableaux of important historical inventions. He asks some…
Descriptors: Art Education, Theater Arts, Rural Schools, Cultural Context
Espel, Emma – West Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2015
This document provides abstracts from a sample of studies that examine risk and/or protective factors or suicide prevention programs for American Indian/Alaska Native youth. Prior to the individual literature summaries, the document includes a section called "From the Literature: Overview of Risk and Protective Factors." The exhibits in…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Alaska Natives, Adolescents, Suicide
Bernstein, Hamutal; Martin, Carlos; Eyster, Lauren; Anderson, Theresa; Owen, Stephanie; Martin-Caughey, Amanda – Urban Institute, 2015
The Urban Institute conducted an implementation and participant-outcomes evaluation of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP). ANSEP is a multi-stage initiative designed to prepare and support Alaska Native students from middle school through graduate school to succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Alaska Natives, American Indian Students, STEM Education
Wexler, Lisa; Burke, Tracey Kathleen – Journal of American Indian Education, 2011
Scholars and university administrators have noted significant disparities in the rates at which Native students graduate from college in a timely manner relative to students from other racial/ethnic groups. It has been posited that this is because in order to succeed, Native students must negotiate the contradictory values of Western and Native…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Time to Degree, College Students
Barnhardt, Ray – Journal of American Indian Education, 2011
This article describes the influences of William Demmert's formative years growing up in Alaska and his years as an educator of Native American students upon his career in Native education policy. It focuses on Alaska Native education during a ten-year period between 1980 and 1990 during which time he served as the director of the Center for…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Liberal Arts
