THIS BOOKLET WAS WRITTEN PRIMARILY FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY TEACHERS WHO NEED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CHIPPEWA INDIAN PUPILS OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA. IT INCLUDES INFORMATION ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED PUPILS, CHIPPEWA CHARACTERISTICS, ATTITUDES CONCERNING INDIAN EDUCATION, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS OF INDIAN CHILDREN.…

THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE ASSIMILATION AND EDUCATION OF ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS INTO THE DOMINANT SOCIETAL ORGANIZATION AND PATTERNS. EDUCATION IS SEEN AS A PART OF THE PROCESS OF ACCULTURATION BETWEEN PEOPLES OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS. THE AUTHOR STATES THAT ALL ETHNIC GROUPS HAVE THE SAME POTENTIAL FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT. A MAJOR…

While English was supported as an official language in India during her pre-independence days, it was during the post-independence days that English bilingualism became widespread. The influence of English can be seen in higher education, elementary and secondary education, national institutions, in the press, and in broadcasting, publishing, and…

This directory was prepared for personnel directors and school superintendents seeking to recruit and hire minority professionals in education. A list is provided of predominantly white institutions with at least twenty percent enrollment of minority students, including Spanish surnamed and American Indian. Historically black schools are listed as…

This report on the role of career education as a tool for meeting the needs of special populations contains a series of five reports on the special career education needs of various groups of students. Discussed in the first chapter, on career education in the heterogenous classroom, are the need to expose students to middle class life, to…

Based on work done for the 1978 Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Program, the document contains series of newspaper articles authored by 10 journalists on various educational topics. The 10 series titles and authors are: "Growing Up Gifted in America's Schools" (H. Collins); "Minimum Competency Testing: State Approaches" (J. Covington);…

This volume consists of the following ten papers, which were presented at the second Hokan-Yuman Languages Workshop, held at the University of California at San Diego in June 1976: (1) "The Havasupai Writing System," by Rena Crook, Leanne Hinton, and Nancy Stenson; (2) "The Upland Yuman Numeral System," by Martha B. Kendall;…

Included in this report on the 1977 Title IV Part A Technical Assistance conference held in Albuquerque are: (1) a descriptive narrative of conference events; (2) a summary of the 120 evaluation responses; and (3) the resolutions adopted by conference participants as a specific vehicle to make their concerns known to the Office of Indian Education…

This library materials vendor list is designed for use by medium-sized public libraries wishing to procure materials by or about the four major ethnic groups in California: American Indian, Asian, Black, and Spanish-speaking. The list is divided into four sections, one for each of the four ethnic groups represented. The second section, containing…

IN A COOPERATIVE PROJECT WITH THE PEACE CORPS, THE OKLAHOMANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY (OIO) ORGANIZATION TRAINED A GROUP OF AMERICAN INDIAN YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1967 FOR SERVICE IN LATIN AMERICA. THE MAJOR HYPOTHESIS UNDER WHICH OIO PLANNED THE TRAINING PROGRAM WAS THAT INDIAN YOUNGSTERS, BECAUSE OF THEIR LACK OF SELF-CONFIDENCE, FELT…

The procedures and setting for the establishment of a psycho-social adjustment program in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Albuquerque Indian School are described. Particular attention is given to the formal organization of the school and to other agencies having functional relationships with the school, since these factors and the physical location…

The present short narrative report is a sequel to the more extensive introductory progress report of 1963-1964 (RC 003 073). Emphasis is placed on the increased number of case referrals and on better communication channels evidenced within the program. The inservice program with the dormitory counselors is shown to have been successful but greatly…

RELATED SOURCE MATERIALS ON AMERICAN INDIANS HAVE BEEN COMPILED IN AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE A GREATER AWARENESS OF THE HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE OF AMERICA'S "FIRST COMERS"--THEIR DIVERSIFIED CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY, LANGUAGES, RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, ART FORMS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS WHICH RANK SOME OF THEM AMONG THE GREAT MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS…

Compiled to acquaint the rural educator with materials in his field, 94 abstracts of some of the latest research and development findings published between 1959 and 1968 are listed in this bibliography. Emphasis is on rural education, small schools, Indian education, migrant education, Mexican American education, and outdoor education. The major…

This ESEA Title III bibliography presents books, films, filmstrips, and records that correlate with stories from selected second-grade basic reading books. The list of books is prepared from the suggested lists of the Ginn, Houghton Mifflin, Lippincott, and Scott, Foresman reading series. The bibliography includes sections about animals, biography…