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Direct linkPhillips, John – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2011
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation's food system typifies that of many rural communities. Most food is grown and processed hundreds or thousands of miles away and transported long distances before it reaches the local grocery shelf. Like oil and gas, food prices are largely determined by international commodity markets driven by global supply,…
Descriptors: Food, Health Promotion, Water, Tribal Sovereignty
Download full textJesse, Dan; Northup, Judy; Withington, Amanda – West Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2015
The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to identify interventions, and supporting research that may benefit educators in their efforts to close the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) achievement gap. It examines promising programs, policies, practices, and processes related to improving academic and nonacademic outcomes for AI/AN students…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, American Indian Education, Alaska Natives, Intervention
Coats-Kitsopoulos, Gloria Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS), the Reading Recovery Observation Survey (RROS) early reading sub-tests, and the reading achievement of Native American first-graders as measured by the Stanford 10. A causal-comparative correlation research design…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reservation American Indians, Grade 1, Emergent Literacy
Krohn, Elise – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2011
The Northwest Indian Treatment Center runs a 45-day inpatient treatment program in Elma, Washington. The Squaxin Island Tribe created the program to address an unmet need for culturally based drug and alcohol treatment centers for Indian people who grew up on reservations. The program specializes in treating people with chronic relapse patterns…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Patients, Clinics, American Indians
Mitchell, Christina M.; Croy, Calvin; Spicer, Paul; Frankel, Karen; Emde, Robert N. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Children who begin kindergarten with stronger skills learn faster than do those who enter with lower skills. Minority children tend to enter kindergarten already at a disadvantage, and the gap widens across time. However, little is known about cognitive development among American Indian young children. In this study, 110 American Indian infants…
Descriptors: American Indians, Young Children, Minority Group Children, National Norms
Pinxten, Rik; Francois, Karen – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2011
Working with Navajo Indian informants in Arizona, USA we became aware of the capabilities of children and adults to find their way in vast and clearly "chaotic" canyons. One thing we did was describe what people actually did and said about their ways to find the way back home in such contexts. A second one was to use these data in order…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), Mathematics, American Indian Education, Reservation American Indians
Al-Asfour, Ahmed; Bryant, Carol – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
This research examined the perceptions of Lakota Native American students taking a Business online course at the Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The study was conducted in the fall of 2010 and spring of 2011. The themes found in this study were flexibility, transportation, communication, and technical support. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Tribes
Greene, Jennifer – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
This article presents a story from the Bitterroot Salish. It describes a family losing their home, moving from the Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation and starting anew.
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Culture, American Indian History, United States History
Bennison, Sarah Machiels – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background: This paper challenges the dominant story of Protestant and Catholic conflict by illustrating the critical role that mission schools played in creating denominational consensus in the West. Focus: Protestant and Catholic missionaries cast aside their differences as they worked toward common goals to "civilize," Christianize,…
Descriptors: Historiography, Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2010
In the year 1999, OPI [Montana Office of Public Instruction] brought together representatives from all the tribes in Montana and created 7 Essential Understandings. These are some of the major issues all tribes have in common. They form the basis for all of our curriculum efforts and initiatives. There is great diversity among the 12 tribal…
Descriptors: Tribal Sovereignty, American Indians, Ideology, American Indian Studies
Guzey, Siddika Selcen; Nyachwaya, James; Moore, Tamara J.; Roehrig, Gillian H. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2014
A wind energy focused curriculum for grades 4-8 was designed and implemented to promote the understanding of wind energy concepts with American Indian students. 57 students who participated in the 2009 summer program of the "Reach for the Sky" (RFTS) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) received the curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Samji, Hasina; Wardman, Dennis – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2009
Taxation of tobacco is a widely used strategy that promotes smoking cessation among adults and reduces cigarette consumption among continuing smokers. First Nations (FN) populations' tobacco use is estimated to be 2-3 times that of other Canadians and, in part, a reflection that tobacco products purchased on reserve by FN people are tax exempt.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Taxes, Canada Natives, Health Promotion
Beals, Janette; Belcourt-Dittloff, Annie; Freedenthal, Stacey; Kaufman, Carol; Mitchell, Christina; Whitesell, Nancy; Albright, Karen; Beauvais, Fred; Belcourt, Gordon; Duran, Bonnie; Fleming, Candace; Floersch, Natasha; Foley, Kevin; Jervis, Lori; Kipp, Billie Jo; Mail, Patricia; Manson, Spero; May, Philip; Mohatt, Gerald; Morse, Bradley; Novins, Douglas; O'Connell, Joan; Parker, Tassy; Quintero, Gilbert; Spicer, Paul; Stiffman, Arlene; Stone, Joseph; Trimble, Joseph; Venner, Kamilla; Walters, Karina – Psychological Bulletin, 2009
In their recent article, N. Spillane and G. Smith suggested that reservation-dwelling American Indians have higher rates of problem drinking than do either non-American Indians or those American Indians living in nonreservation settings. These authors further argued that problematic alcohol use patterns in reservation communities are due to the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Reservation American Indians, Incidence, Alcohol Abuse
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2012
Schools and communities across Montana are working hard to ensure that students receive the best education and graduate ready for college and careers. One of the most important components in this effort involves understanding where students are and how schools and communities can best help them achieve at the highest levels. Data is an invaluable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, American Indians, American Indian Students
Bates, Rodger A. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2012
Distance education strategies for remotely deployed, highly mobile, or institutionalized populations are reviewed and critiqued. Specifically, asynchronous, offline responses for special military units, Native Americans on remote reservations, prison populations and other geographically, temporally or technologically isolated niche populations are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Distance Education, Correctional Institutions
