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Download full textFann, Amy – 2002
This ERIC Digest provides an overview of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), including a discussion of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), TCU curriculum, institutional funding, student demographics, and the role of TCUs in developing local economies. The AIHEC was founded in 1972 and currently represents 32 TCUs. The…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, College Role, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 2001
This annotated bibliography provides an overview of tribal colleges, gives an account of their history, details examples of successful programs offered by tribal colleges, and discusses the relationship of tribal colleges to the federal government. The bibliography describes 21 resources, of which only the 3 Internet resources are not available…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, College Students
Pepper, Floy C. – 1990
This ERIC digest gives elementary school teachers realistic information about American Indians and Alaska Natives and identifies some of the common myths based on ethnic bias. Bias against Indians is often the result of inaccurate information. Stylized classroom accounts of Indian life reinforce "buckskin-and- feather" or "Eskimo…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, American Indians
Dupris, Joseph C. – 1980
The reemergence in the 1960's of the traditional Indian philosophy of education as preparation for societal productivity coincided with a movement within Indian communities toward more active participation in and self-control of the education of their people. By recognizing the historical right of American Indians to control their own education,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Community Control, Educational Change
Cahape, Patricia, Ed.; Howley, Craig B., Ed. – 1992
This volume contains summaries of 20 papers commissioned by the Indian Nations At Risk Task Force. Based on research, testimony, and written materials submitted to the Task Force by hundreds of educational practitioners and concerned citizens, the papers provide in-depth analyses of current conditions in Native education and set forth rationale,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians
