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Download full textAshby, Cornelia – US Government Accountability Office, 2008
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) requires states and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) to define and determine whether schools are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward the goal of 100 percent academic proficiency. To address tribes' needs for cultural preservation, NCLBA allows tribal groups to waive all…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Public Speaking, American Indian Education, Tribes
Watkins, Joe; Parry, Tom – Common Ground: Archeology and Ethnography in the Public Interest, 1997
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Oklahoma Indian tribes collaborated to identify and preserve archeological sites. Acting together increased tribes' influence on all levels of government decisions, and the agency gained a better sense of consulting problems. Ultimately, the agency developed a basic training program in archeology and preservation…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, American Indians, Archaeology, Consultation Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1995
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs received testimony from American Indian youth about the problems confronting Indian young people on reservations and in urban areas and about their own personal experiences with such problems. Witnesses included college and high school students representing various youth councils and youth organizations at a…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, College Students
Parellada, Alejandro, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book addresses the oppression and discrimination that indigenous populations face and discusses their efforts to regain basic rights to control their own cultural, economic, political, and social development. The first section discusses the social status and living conditions of indigenous populations in the Arctic (including Saamiland and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Canada Natives
PDF pending restorationManitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1993
This policy statement, presented in both English and French, describes the funding support available for heritage language and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs for K-12 students in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The two parts of the statement, headed "Heritage Language Instruction" and "ESL for Students with Limited…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Maintenance, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Alaska Univ., Fairbanks. Alaska Native Knowledge Network. – 1998
Alaska Native educators have developed standards that schools and communities can use to examine the extent to which they are attending to the educational and cultural well-being of their students. These "cultural standards" are intended to complement Alaska state content and performance standards. Standards have been developed for five…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Community Involvement, Cultural Awareness
