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Amanda LeClair-Diaz; Christine Stanton – Rural Educator, 2024
This article describes storywork and collaborative meaning making as relational practices that can support stakeholder learning about curricular sovereignty with(in) rural Indigenous-serving school districts. While various treaties and policies exist to protect the educational interests of Indigenous Nations, enacting curricular sovereignty often…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Indigenous Populations, Constructivism (Learning), American Indian Education
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Vincent Werito – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article addresses critical issues of how Indigenous (Diné/Navajo) youth construct meaning of their racial, cultural, and linguistic identities within the historical, political, and socio-cultural contexts of the United States of America as a racialized, settler/colonial society. Using Tribal Crit theory, the author, a member of the Diné…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), Indigenous Populations, American Indian Students, American Indian Culture
Running Bear, Candi; Terrill, William P. A.; Frates, Adriana; Peterson, Patricia; Ulrich, Judith – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly changed almost all aspects of people's everyday lives. This included new challenges in the education of Native American students with disabilities who live in rural and remote areas of the United States. Native American students with disabilities living on reservations are served by local schools, tribally…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Schools, Students with Disabilities
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Mack, Elizabeth; Augare, Helen; Cloud-Jones, Linda Different; David, Dominique; Gaddie, Helene Quiver; Honey, Rose E.; Kawagley, Angayuqaq O.; Plume-Weatherwax, Melissa Little; Fight, Lisa Lone; Meier, Gene; Pete, Tachini; Leaf, James Rattling; Returns From Scout, Elvin; Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie; Shibata, Hi'ilani; Valdez, Shelly; Wippert, Rachel – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
There are a growing number of informal science education (ISE) programs in Native communities that engage youth in science education and that are grounded in Native ways of knowing. There is also a growing body of research focusing on the relationship between culture, traditional knowledge, and science education. However, there is little research…
Descriptors: Expertise, American Indian Education, Science Education, Indigenous Populations
Borden, Victor M. H. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Each year in the Top 100 series, researchers highlight the institutions that confer the most degrees to students of color. In this edition, they focus on the most prevalent degree conferred: the bachelor's degree. Among the types of colleges and universities that they examine--those that have Title IV status (recognized by the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Bachelors Degrees, Graduation Rate, College Graduates
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Porter, Frank W., III – American Indian Quarterly, 1990
Traces the efforts of seven landless tribes in western Washington to maintain their tribal identity, establish their treaty rights in court, secure allotments of land, and achieve federal recognition of their tribal status. The absence of trust land holdings among these tribes is the federal government's justification for nonrecognition. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian History, Court Litigation, Federal Indian Relationship, Nonreservation American Indians
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Neubeck, Eva; Witthuhn, Janet – Educational Leadership, 1983
A summer program provided a range of health and school activities for entire families of the Minneapolis (Minnesota) Indian community. Both students and their parents improved in learning assessments and in attitudes toward school. (MLF)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Involvement
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Plantz, Margaret C.; And Others – Children Today, 1989
Highlights the findings from the first systematic national examination of the effects of the Indian Child Welfare Act (P. L. 95-608). Examines the prevalence of Native American children in substitute care and the effects of this Act and others on Indian children and families. (RJC)
Descriptors: Children, Family Life, Nonreservation American Indians, Program Effectiveness
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Joe, Jennie R. – Amerasia Journal, 1987
The relationship between Native Americans and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is ambivalent. Most BIA commissioners, like Dillon Myer, have been assimilationists who have tried to get the government "out of Indian business." Recent policies stressing self-determination are in jeopardy as pressure mounts for decreased federal domestic…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Federal Indian Relationship
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Carrigg, Daniel – Tribal College, 1990
Describes difficulties in locating and recruiting Indian students living off reservations and lack of information about financial aid among urban Indians. Discusses problems related to proving eligibility for financial assistance. Reviews efforts to improve educational access for urban Indians. (DMM)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Higher Education, Information Needs, Nonreservation American Indians
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Thompson, Gary E. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1990
Describes a study of the academic achievement of Native American students at Rogers State College in U.S. History courses. Interviews suggested that poor achievement in U.S. History (in comparison to American Indian students' grades in other courses and non-Indian students' grades) were related to culturally based differences in defining…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict
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Slagle, Allogan – American Indian Quarterly, 1989
Examines circumstances of Californian Indians' unacknowledged and terminated tribes, the legal history and current status of their claims, and cultural and economic problems facing many tribes. Recommends a study of California Indian conditions leading to appropriate comprehensive federal legislation. Includes lists of restoration and…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Court Litigation, Federal Indian Relationship, Federal Programs
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Beauvais, Fred – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1992
Surveys of reservation and nonreservation American Indians and Anglo-Americans in grades 8 and 12 examined perceptions about availability of alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs; beliefs about whether occasional or regular use of alcohol or various drugs would cause harm; and intentions concerning future drug use. (SV)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Beliefs, Drinking
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Liebow, Edward B. – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1989
Examines the development of an urban Indian ethnic group in Phoenix, Arizona. Uses a social network analysis to determine the group's level of social cohesion. (FMW)
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Studies, Ethnicity, Group Status
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Beauvais, Fred – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 1992
Using the 1988-90 American Drug and Alcohol Survey data, compares drug use (lifetime and 30-day prevalence) among reservation and nonreservation American Indians and non-Indians in grades 8 and 12 in 1988-90. Found highest rates of drug use (marijuana, cocaine, crack, stimulants, inhalants, hallucinogens, and other drugs), alcohol use, and smoking…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anglo Americans, Children, Drinking
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