Offers recollections of boarding school experiences that encouraged students to think negatively about their own language. Highlights efforts at Sinte Gleska University to integrate language and culture in training Lakota linguists and teachers. Presents recommendations and warnings about Lakota language instruction in public schools. (DMM)

Underscores the need for specialized native teacher training programs, describing university and community college programs fulfilling this need. Discusses the necessary anthropological, sociological, and historical foundations of Native American education. Highlights instructional methodologies for native students, including culturally responsive…

Traces native language usage among three generations of a Lakota family, explaining one woman's decision not to teach her children Lakota to protect them from abuse at a boarding school and her descendants' efforts to learn and preserve their language. Offers a Lakota studies and language instructor's perspective on his students' hunger for their…

Highlights the efforts of numerous twentieth-century politicians and educators who supported or opposed the creation of an Indian college. Quoting from Native American and White spokespersons, illustrates positions ranging from August Breuninger's who stressed cultural preservation to Richard Pratt's who wanted Indians "to quit being…

Describes the nursing program at Salish Kootenai College, focusing on recruitment, retention, individual curriculum plans, remedial/refresher courses in math and science, staffing, clinical practica, student responses, and funding. (DMM)

Describes a survey of faculty at 25 tribally controlled colleges to determine whether faculty were willing to provide instructional accommodations to disabled students, if they felt students would benefit or academic integrity would suffer and if they or their institution provided accommodations. Includes statistics on American Indians with…

Describes Sinte Gleska University's Human Services Program, which offers associate and baccalaureate programs to train midlevel human service professionals (i.e., criminal justice and mental health/social workers) within a reservation context. Describes program outcomes. Stresses the need for training to serve culturally different persons in the…

Describes individual, community, organizational, and college examples of efforts to promote sobriety and recovery from alcoholism among Native Americans. Discusses a sobriety movement tenet that alcoholism threatens the entire tribe and requires collective action. Highlights links with a broader movement for spiritual and cultural renewal. (DMM)

Discusses the limited options available to Native American art students for developing artistic skills, stressing that the emphasis on mass marketing can hinder the creativity of young artists. Suggests alternatives for art programs and art students. Urges students to recognize that there are choices when it comes to serious art. (MY)

Describes the growth of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College's science and technology programs through grants which have funded new faculty positions, the construction of new science and computer facilities, 16 computers, and the implementation of long-distance learning systems. (DMM)

Offers statistics on family violence in the United States. Indicates that, although the concept of family violence is diametrically opposed to the philosophical and spiritual beliefs of indigenous peoples, it is pervasive in Native American communities. Urges tribal colleges to acknowledge its presence and confront its causes. (DMM)

Describes the different approaches to art by the American Indian and western cultures and the approach of students at the Institute of American Indian Arts, combining elements from each to create new Indian art forms. Discusses the Indian Arts and Crafts Bill of 1990 and its definition of Indian art and artists. (DLM)

Describes the formation and operations of the Navajo Dryland Environments Laboratory (NDEL). NDEL, established by the Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium of New Mexico on the campus of Navajo Community College, focuses on environmental geology, hydrology, and resource management of the Colorado Plateau drylands. (DMM)

Describes Saskatchewan Indian Federated College's preprofessional, university-level science program and its focus on building math and science skills and on Indian culture, traditional medicine, current and future health care needs, and the goals of Indian people. Reports departmentwide enrollment increases. (DMM)

Describes a cooperative program between Fort Belknap College, in northern Montana, and an archeological firm designed to provide Native American students with hands-on experience in research and excavation of Indian artifacts. Reviews benefits of the partnership with respect to student experience and knowledge of ancient cultures. (MAB)