This annual publication examines political, legal, social, and educational issues concerning indigenous peoples around the world in 1998-99. Part I highlights news events and ongoing situations in specific countries. In North America, these include court decisions on the legal status of Alaska Native tribal governments, indigenous subsistence…

Describes effects of colonial rule on patterns of indigenous African education, division of labor, and social stratification. Explores changing patterns in educational and occupational sex roles in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the changing position of women. (Author/MJL)

Focuses on educational change in primary and secondary levels during the initial postindependence period, with emphasis on 1977-1979. During its first five years of independence, Mozambique gave priority to quantitative expansion of education, succeeding in achieving a threefold increase in school enrollment, but the "new education" is…

Examines ideological environment that informed the actions of colonial education policy-makers, and its effects on education made available to Africans and their response to the education offered. Suggests three independent factors are closely involved and make vitally important contributions to the unfolding of colonial educational development,…

Examines the process used to develop a lesson plan from an academic research article. Includes a lesson plan developed from an article in the Spring 1997 issue of "The Journal of World History" tracing the history of jute (a substitute for flax) manufacturing in colonial India. (MJP)

Examines the history of White-Indian relationships in Latin America and North America and the corresponding fluctuations in loanword borrowing into English from Native American languages. Explores 20th-century attitudes toward Native Americans and the impact of these attitudes on borrowing today, particularly in Alaska where Natives are resisting…

Describes narrative activity in Spanish in a children's religious education class composed of Mexican immigrants at a Catholic parish in Los Angeles. Describes how students and their teacher collaborate in constructing a multiplicity of identities in an ongoing narrative within an oppressive colonial past in Mexico. (31 references) (Author/CK)

Reviews colonialist and authoritarian mistreatment of Argentina's aboriginal Mataco Indians. Describes founding and economic development of El Sauzalito, a Mataco village, and Indians' change from hunter-gatherers to sedentary community. Describes role of multicultural education in Indians' transition from dependency toward local autonomy.…

Asserts that ethnography's development out of anthropology left it tainted with biases from colonialism and imperialism. Discusses several contemporary approaches, including critical ethnography, really useful knowledge, and action research. Suggests further incorporation of postmodernist ideas into the field of ethnography. (MJP)

Maintains that struggle has been part of Vietnamese history. Asserts that a new social studies curriculum focuses on the context of historical struggle against foreign domination combined with contemporary socialism and communism. Describes the Vietnamese educational system with particular focus on secondary social studies. (CFR)

A discussion of the difficulties and progress of Indian higher education in the postcolonial era concludes that, although there have been some gains, problems exist in overexpansion, inadequate resources, political influences, and general lack of vigor in the higher education system. Several initiatives are suggested. (MSE)

Provides an overview of the decimation of the Aborigines in Australia since 1806. Describes extent of the acts of persecution, discrimination, and victimization of these people. Says governmental policy and practice spread throughout all colonies and states and was premeditated and deliberate. Maintains Aborigines are still denied needed services.…

The issue of Aboriginal identity is most often played out in Canadian law. Aboriginal "difference" from others is used to maintain inequities in power relations when it is convenient for those with power. Canada Natives should identify themselves from inside themselves, their communities, and their traditions, and not allow others to…

Presents an incisive overview of the historical writing concerning the Spanish-American War by U.S. historians. Summarizes and comments on some of the seminal works by Walter LaFeber, Paul Kennedy, and Louis A. Perez. Their works consider the conflict from the perspectives of international relations, domestic politics, and various ideologies. (MJP)

The emergence of postsecondary educational institutions in the Canadian North reflects a growing multidisciplinary and international cooperation and a change in attitudes toward the North. The ability to study in their home regions has increased Northern students' postsecondary attendance; substantial courses in Northern themes are available; and…