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West Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2014
The West Comprehensive Center (WCC) is working with the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), the Nevada Department of Education (NDE), and the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) to assist districts and schools that are implementing activities to improve outcomes for Indian students. As a first step, WCC staff reviewed state and national law,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, State Legislation, Federal Legislation, Laws
Office of Child Care, 2013
This Report to Congress is required by Section 658L of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act as amended. The report provides information about the role of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which is authorized under the CCDBG Act, in improving access to high-quality child care in states, territories, and tribes. The data…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Child Care, Federal Aid, Grants
Boulard, Garry – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2011
Indian gaming has proven to be a very good thing for all students in Oklahoma, but particularly tribal college students. It also has proven to be remarkably popular, even in the face of the national recession. The Creek Nation operates several casinos in the state, the main one being the River Spirit in Tulsa. The performance of any gaming varies…
Descriptors: American Indians, Tribally Controlled Education, American Indian Languages, Games
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Gonzalez, John; Bennett, Russell – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2011
This study reports on a Native Identity Scale (NIS) adapted from an African American identity scale (Sellers et al., 1997). American Indian (AIs) and First Nations Canadian participants (N = 199) completed the NIS at powwows in the Upper Midwest. The majority of respondents were Ojibwe, but other tribal groups were represented. A principal…
Descriptors: American Indians, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
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Talahongva, Patty – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2009
From the very start each issue of the "Tribal College Journal" (TCJ) was (and remains) a result of weeks of planning, thinking up themes, brainstorming story ideas, and tracking the progress at the various tribal colleges, and then putting it all into a single quarterly issue. In the past 20 years there have been 80 issues dedicated to the Tribal…
Descriptors: Tribally Controlled Education, Higher Education, Periodicals, American Indians
Krueger, Karla – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2009
This article provides an overview of the three-volume reference set, "Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty" published by ABC-CLIO. This reference work is edited by Donald Fixico, Arizona State University, and dedicated to the people of his tribes: (1) Shawnee; (2) Sac and Fox; (3) Seminole; and (4)…
Descriptors: Treaties, American Indians, Encyclopedias, Tribes
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Matsui, Kenichi – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2011
As of December 2010, the US Congress had enacted more than twenty major community-specific Native water-rights settlements, and the state of Arizona had more of these settlements (eight) than any other US state. This unique situation has invited voluminous studies on Arizona's Native water-rights settlements. Although these studies have clarified…
Descriptors: Water, American Indians, Federal Government, United States History
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Phillips, 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
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Visser, John; Fovet, Frédéric – in education, 2014
The parameters are readily interesting: The Cree School Board experience over the past 25 years represents one of the first occurrences worldwide of a society having globally acknowledged that a curriculum, as a whole, did not necessarily fit a specific group, rather than the individuals not performing within a curriculum. As such, this represents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Tribes
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Rice, Alanna – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2010
In this article, the author talks about schooling and the development of literacy within Algonquian communities in eighteenth-century southern New England. With the founding of Moor's Indian Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1754, congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock launched an educational regimen that aimed to Christianize and…
Descriptors: United States History, Letters (Correspondence), Literacy, Historians
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Siegler, Aaron J.; Mbwambo, Jessie K.; DiClemente, Ralph J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
This study applied the Dynamic Social Systems Model (DSSM) to the issue of HIV risk among the Maasai tribe of Tanzania, using data from a cross-sectional, cluster survey among 370 randomly selected participants from Ngorongoro and Siha Districts. A culturally appropriate survey instrument was developed to explore traditions reportedly coadunate…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Risk
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Wanger, Stephen P.; Minthorn, Robin Starr; Weinland, Kathryn A.; Appleman, Boomer; James, Michael; Arnold, Allen – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
This exploratory case study examines the participation of Native American students in study abroad and institutional policies and practices that either impede or enhance participation. The study surveys all Native students enrolled at the American university that produces the most Native graduates with bachelor's degrees. Although Native students…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Study Abroad, Disproportionate Representation, Student Participation
Minz, Nijhar Jharia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This interpretive study asked the question: "What education and literacy insights can be gained from the studies of the life stories of illiterate Oraon women in Jharkhand, India?" Life history methodology was used to gain insights into the lived experiences of illiterate women. I hoped to provide meaning and give voice to the voiceless.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Indians, Illiteracy
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Talahongva, Patty – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2009
Far from the glitzy streets of New York or Los Angeles... where many of this nation's magazines are published... and on the edge of the famed Four Corners Region in the town of Mancos, Colorado ...is the home of the Tribal College Journal (TCJ). Tucked away in the Rocky Mountains, it's much like the tribal colleges it serves, far from big city…
Descriptors: Tribally Controlled Education, Periodicals, Higher Education, American Indians
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Anisko, Briana – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2009
Although the many American Indian tribes of the United States are unique in their own customs, languages, and histories, a common thread throughout their traditions and cultural lifestyles is that they are of a culture that reveres the elder in their communities. Elders are the carriers of the culture/history; they are the storytellers, holders of…
Descriptors: Elder Abuse, Ceremonies, American Indians, Tribes
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