Re-envisioning Indian Education

Features

• Designing a Cultural Leadership Program

  Vernon Finley

  Salish Kootenai College’s Cultural Leadership Program attempts to renew belief in a traditional system of education.

• Turtle Mountain Celebrates Another Milestone

  Logan Davis

  Turtle Mountain Community College broke ground for a new multi-million dollar college campus in May.

• First Survey of Tribal College Students Reveals Attitudes

  Paul Boyer

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  College students, it is often said, vote with their feet. If they like what they see, they enroll. Otherwise, classrooms remain empty.

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• Montana Adopts Landmark Language Certification Process

  Richard Littlebear

  American Indian language teachers in Montana now can obtain prestige and credibility equal to that of teachers of English and other languages through a tribal certification process recognized by the state.

• A Report from the Trenches: Cultural integration in science and math

  Ravindra Srivastava

  A former Dine College instructor discusses the hotly debated topic of cultural inclusion in various college courses, especially the sciences.

• Dine College Struggles to Synthesize Navajo and Western Knowledge

  Paul Willeto

  Since its establishment in 1968, Navajo Community College (now Dine College) has pursued its mandate to synthesize Navajo and Western knowledge so that its students will survive in the dominant society while maintaining their heritage. This mission has presented a tremendous challenge for the past, present, and future leaders of the college who try to combine the two worldviews in one institution.

Editor's Essay

• Re-Envisioning American Indian Education

  Marjane Ambler

  The concept of American Indian cultural curriculum emerged not out of educational fads or efforts to be politically correct. It was inspired by the failure of educational institutions to successfully educate American Indian children.

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Profile

• Hardships Taught the Power of Isolated Study

  Lanniko Lee

  Vernon “Vern” Frederick Traversie credits his powerful persistence to early experiences overcoming hardship and isolation.

Resource Guide

• 9-2 Fall 1997 “Re-envisioning Indian Education” Resource Guide

  Mary Hermes

  Located within the recent scholarship in Indian Education, this brief annotated bibliography concentrates on the subject broadly referred to as “culture and curriculum.” If culture is understood as the collective values,

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Research

• Going Back and Forth: Reflections on research methods at a tribal school

  Mary Hermes

  Dr. Mary “Fong” Hermes reflects on stretching the definition of dissertation “research” at a tribal school. “Given my particular research problem (cultural curriculum development), how I conducted research became, at least in part, a response to the community.”

Land Grant

• Ag Appropriations Equal to Last Year

  Despite efforts to increase funding for tribal college agricultural programs, both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate have agreed to maintain the previous year’s funding levels.

Dear Readers

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  CMN Professor Uses Degree to Bring Healing to the Community

  Colleen R. Billiot

  Joining the faculty at the College of Menominee Nation showed Vicki Besaw there was more to teaching than simply helping students learn in the classroom.

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  CDKC Embraces Virtual Reality

  Adrienne Violett

  VR now provides Chief Dull Knife College a way to link materials from the archives, artifacts from its cultural center, and the stories people tell.