American Indian higher education in the United States has evolved within paternalistic, hierarchical decision-making policies and practices based on complex sociopolitical and cultural factors since the 1600s. Indigenous peoples had historically been excluded from most decisions affecting their lives until the 20th century when a deliberate Indian…

As an offshoot of the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI), the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta offers a Community Linguist Certificate (CLC) program to speakers of First Peoples' languages of (mainly) Western Canada. The CLC program provides linguistic analysis and language documentation…

Libraries and information centers are rapidly becoming an integral part of American Indian life. Even though tribes have recently taken a great deal of initiative in establishing community libraries in conjunction with tribal community centers, they have encountered problems of training staff in Indian libraries. Isolation and lack of funds,…

Successful bilingual programs depend on some understanding of the language situation involved, the possible strategies of bilingual education, the effects of these strategies, the assessment of community desires, the best ways to find and train teachers, the method of evaluating curriculum, the effect of learning styles, and the possibilities of…

Article describes a series of different programs designed to provide teachers with leadership training, an increase in their sense of personal control over their environment, and teaching interns with elementary school experience. (Author/RK)

Defining the overall objective of bilingual education to be the integration of the child into the mainstream of American life while maintaining audiolingual skills in both English and the native language without losing certain aspects of the subculture, this report summarizes information from 19 school districts involved in special English classes…

Pilot projects to experiment with methods of achieving the objectives of the Off-Reservation Boarding School Project (ORBS) were conducted at Sherman Indian High School, Riverside, California, and at Chilocco Indian High School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. The general objectives for the ORBS Project at each school were to review long range goals, to…

The Off-Reservation Boarding School (ORBS) Project, financed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is described in this document, which was presented to participants at an ORBS Project workshop. The project was devised as a vehicle for supplying the answers to the following unanswered questions concerning Indian education: Should ORBS continue to serve…

Factors contributing to the problems of the American Indian studies program (AINS) at the University of Arizona are examined, based on a 1991-92 program review. The relationship of the AINS program to the land grant university mission is highlighted. Observations and conclusions specific to this program are then generalized to ethnic studies and…

Presenting evaluations of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) implementation of the School Management Option Project, a project designed to further American Indian control of schools and elevated to the status of Presidential/Secretarial Objective (P/SO) in 1974, this report includes separate evaluations by the National Indian Training and…

A series of mini courses in the basics of management, information systems, and personnel, the workshop was developed for tribal health program managers. The workshop aimed to provide: supervisory management training which was relevant to the need of tribal health supervisors; demonstrable evidence of understanding and application of new skills;…

Bilingual education programs are usually evaluated by means of educational testing instruments whose validity and reliability is such that conclusive findings are unlikely. in reference to Navajo bilingual education evaluation, it is particularly important that consideration be given to the economic, sociological, political, cultural, and…

The Native Inmate Substance Abuse Pre-Treatment Project, a 1-year research and development demonstration project, was pilot tested at Mountain Federal Penitentiary and William Head Federal Penitentiary in British Columbia (Canada). Ten inmates volunteered to participate in the Mountain program, and 14 inmates were required to attend at William…

Designed for both parent committee members and project directors, the handbook of technical assistance materials on Indian Education Act (Part A) entitlement programs for public schools contains five major sections. Section I is introductory material. Section II, "The Parent Committee," covers elections, meetings, records, and bylaws.…

The project was aimed at providing training and consultation to Tribal Education members and reservation adult education personnel so that reservation adult education (AE) programs could be more responsive to local needs. Primary project objectives were established to promote active involvement of the Tribal Education Committee, Tribal Council,…