Of the 37 tribal colleges and universities in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, 33 are tribally controlled--located on Indian land and chartered by tribes. In governance and funding, the four intertribal colleges differ from tribally-controlled colleges. Institute for American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for example,…

Introduction: Pupils reasoning ability is a sine-qua-non to the evaluation of their performance in learning and an indicator of their potential predictors of future performance. Method: The study examined the relationship among demographic variables and reasoning ability of primary school pupils. It drew four hundred pupils from ten (10)…

An ilkak'mana called Multnomah once lived near the river where New England merchants chopped Portland, Oregon, out of a Douglas-fir forest. With a bow and shield slung behind his back, the chief stood imperiously in Hermon A. MacNeil's 1904 statuette inscribed at its base with his name. Nearby tribes preserved Multnomah in words, but years later…

The paper is an attempt to understand and analyse the status of universal primary education among tribals in Jharkhand and its challenges. Considering the low literacy among tribals and high drop out rates at elementary and higher levels, there is need of special focus on tribal's education, inclusive of context-specific traditional and innovative…

Though politically separate from the Seminole, the Miccosukees are, like the Seminoles, originally from Georgia and North Carolina, and their language and customs parallel those of the Seminole. (JC)

Unlike most social scientists, this author believes that the tribe is an artificial product of the state and not an evolutionary step in the civilization process. He uses as an example, the appearance of American Indian tribes which seem to have formed after the Indians came under United States rule. (MA)

The relationship established by Congress was defined by the American Indian Policy Review Commission as established legal obligation, which requires the United States to protect and enhance Indian resources and government, and to provide economic and social programs to raise the standard of living of the Indian people to a level comparable to the…

This article continues a series on Native American sterilization, based on a conference of the National Council of Churches' Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). Also included are an article and a report by the American Civil Liberties Union. (Author/RTS)

The last "Westerner" or San Juan Indian, Ascencion Solorsanso, spent the final days of her life (1930) recounting the history, legends, and life style of her people for John Harrington, a leading ethnologist at the Smithsonian. (JC)

Discusses the issue of spontaneous refugee resettlement in Africa in which peasant families have fled across boundaries which bisect common tribal groupings. Presents options available to formal agencies when assisting this resettlement process. (MK)

This article describes a hands-on activity that explore weaving patterns of the Tellem people. It includes a graphing calculator program that simulates the weaving pattern.

The purpose of this study was to examine the lived educational experiences of American Indians who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s, known as the termination period in American history. The research for this phenomenological study consisted of interviews with eight participants who were willing to share their personal experiences from this…

Through a new working group, tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are playing a critical leadership role in addressing some of the most difficult climate-related problems now facing the planet. Because of their unique cultural character, TCUs have an important voice. The American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group was formed…