As part of its multicultural approach, the United Nations International School includes Native American literature and social studies materials in many areas of the K-12 curriculum, as well as encouraging awareness of Native American concerns outside the classroom. Class activities and schoolwide events are described. (SV)

Lists selected resources for teaching about American Indians available from the ERIC database. Topics of resources include Navajo history, Pacific Northwest history, Indians of Oklahoma, Indian traditions, Plains Indian culture, and Pawnee history. (AEM)

Describes the culturally diverse rural LaConner School and the development of a curriculum for junior high students. The curriculum increases awareness of the ways aboriginal people used the cedar tree. Involves school staff, students, and elders of the Swinomish tribe. (SKW)

Argues that native American folk history is not just legend, but often oral history told from a different viewpoint. Compares stories from the Kashaya Pomo living near Fort Ross with Russian and English historical accounts to enlarge the picture of an 1833 Hudson's Bay expedition in California. Contains 14 references. (DHP)

Describes the dilemma facing American Indian Studies, a discipline evaluated (and constrained) by mainstream academics according to Eurocentric conceptual "standards." Suggests that American Indian studies could become a valid, autonomous discipline by placing its subject matter in a global context of indigenous experience. Contains 27 references.…

A national survey found that most Indian-related coursework offered at U.S. colleges and universities was scattered throughout departments, although at least 30 institutions offered majors or minors in American Indian Studies. Included are profiles of seven American Indian Studies programs. (SV)

A nationwide movement, including federal legislation, to return privately and publicly held Indian artifacts and remains to tribes is causing concern among anthropologists that research will be slowed. Others feel the need for cooperation among scholars, and Native Americans will improve relations and not hinder research. (MSE)

Traces development of Native American place name studies from Boas (1880s) to the present. Argues that place names convey information about physical environments but also reveal how people perceive, conceptualize, and utilize their environment. Suggests the utility of place names as a framework for cultural analysis and describes recent…

The Applied Indigenous Studies program at Northern Arizona University aims to prepare American Indian students to assume tribal leadership roles. Its location in the College of Ecosystem Science and Management emphasizes its land-oriented and applied focus. The program's development, core courses, and academic requirements for bachelors degrees…

Charles Alexander Eastman remains an enigmatic figure in the early days of American Indian activism--a man whose contributions, while unimpeachable in terms of devotion and good will, are often complicated by the lingering shadow of assimilationist values evident in his writings and his career as one of the so-called "red progressives." Eastman…

In this article, the author offers some thoughts on life as native scholars in academia, along with some possible strategies for survival and achievement. Recognizing how hard it is every day, how crazy this life is in the twenty-first century after everything the communities, families, and nations have gone through, the author considers it a…

The author is a part-time English faculty at a wealthy, 95 percent Anglo, liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and she is a candidate for a PhD in Native American studies. College administrators and her colleagues know that she is a tribally enrolled Native American (Shawnee). She used her tribal enrollment card for Form I-9 identification when…

This book defines a variety of terms from Native American history and represents a compendium of vocabulary, people, places, and events. The alphabetized, illustrated text includes names for Indian objects such as pirogues, prayer sticks, kayaks, dumas, and medicine bundles; methods of doing things, such as stone boiling, diapering babies, healing…

Conducting research in the field of Native American studies requires the use of many different materials in the library. This guide provides a bibliography of useful tools as well as a basic strategy to follow when researching the topic. The types of documents listed include: dictionaries and encyclopedias, guides and handbooks, journal articles,…

This document presents a bibliography of works dealing with the modern Maya. The titles listed are intended to complement the many academic studies devoted to the present day Maya. The document is divided into four sections: (1) personal histories, (2) dream analyses, (3) folktales, and (4) pictorial works. Each section is further divided between…