American Indian educational materials for elementary schools are largely ethnocentric, inaccurate, distroted, and denigrative due to anthropologists who have failed to involve themselves in the enculturaltion process relative to their fields of interest. (FF)

Examines form and content of American Indian authored selections in South Carolina's high school literature anthologies. Results show only 36 percent are contemporary. The sample of traditional genres lacks balanced representation and does not reflect regional distribution of American Indians. Development of evaluative criteria specific to…

Compares occupational values of 232 rural Eskimo secondary students with those of 117 urban white adolescents from Fairbanks. Shows Eskimo adolescents resemble white counterparts in their work values but significant cultural differences appear in extent to which each group seeks intrinsic satisfactions from wage work. (NEC)

The status of the North American Indian in most history and social studies textbooks has not substantially changed in the last 20 years. The Indian continues to be portrayed in extreme, simplistic, stereotypical roles--on the one hand noble, peaceful, friendly, and helpful and on the other hand fierce and warlike. (JHZ)

A study of eight basal reading series was conducted to determine how Native American characters are portrayed in basal readers and how much realism is in recently published stories. Native Americans were not presented in first grade stories. Fifth grade stories were realistic and well written. (JHZ)

A study of grades for all kindergarten children in a rural midwestern town near an American Indian reservation examined the variables of gender, class time, parent involvement, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and family style. Cultural differences possibly led to higher grades for Caucasian children in two of the six grade categories. (JHZ)