Teacher Education (1999)

Features

• Vine Deloria, Jr.: Education in the next millennium

  Richard Simonelli

  Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the nation’s most visible and influential American Indian scholarsreflects on the state of American Indian higher education.

• A Personal Story: Race and education

  Carrie Billy

  Like most children growing up 25 to 30 years ago in a small rural town, my brothers and I walked to school every day. We kicked cans, chased a few dogs, and lost our notebooks – typical kid stuff. But not really. Our walks were different. We were different, something less than the kids born with lighter hair and lighter skin in towns outside the reservation’s boundaries.

• Historic Meeting Between Higher Education Leaders

  Marjane Ambler

  “We acknowledge that your faces are all familiar. I have seen your eyes in the campfire years ago,” said Maori leader John (Hone) Tahu. Tahu spoke to his American Indian brothers and sisters at a historic meeting between indigenous higher education leaders from New Zealand (Aotearoa) and the United States.

• For the Children’s Sake: How to develop a tribal teacher education program

  Jack Barden

  Turtle Mountain Community College (TMCC) is developing a teacher preparation program that attempts to balance pedagogy, subject matter, and culture in a holistic way.

• Sitting Bull’s Vision: A collaboration that works for our children

  Kathy Froelich

  Sinte Gleska University has affiliated with several other tribal colleges to offer teacher education. This article describes the collaboration between Sinte and Sitting Bull College.

Editor's Essay

• Instilling Dreams: The promise of teacher education

  Marjane Ambler

  Ever since the first schools were built for American Indian children 200 years ago, these students have not fared well. Today nearly half–44 percent–of all American Indian students drop out of high school,

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Profile

• Haskell Graduate Dreams of Opportunity in New Millennium

  Lanniko Lee

  After graduating from Haskell Indian Nations University, Heather Rozler is answering the call for American Indian educators to teach American Indian youth. The new Indian educators have their work cut out for them. “It is tough to be a child in today’s world,” said Rozler, a member of the Seneca Tribe of New York.

Resource Guide

• 11-2 Winter 1999 “Teacher Education” Resource Guide

  Elizabeth Albert

  There is a growing collection of good materials on teaching American Indian students, as well as materials useful for teachers integrating American Indian content into the curriculum.

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Research

• Chronic Hoarseness in American Indian School-aged Children

  Bridget Francisco

  This study was launched to verify observations made of the American Indian population, who appeared to demonstrate a high incidence of chronic hoarseness. Although hoarseness is common, the literature describes this group of people as being soft spoken. Thus the number of voice disorders is typically underestimated as the result of the lack of identification and referral from parents and teachers.

Land Grant

• Cultivating Generations: Community gardening on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation

  Edward Raventon

  It was a hot, sultry June morning in Eagle Butte, S.D. The spring in western South Dakota had been unusually bountiful with moisture–and weeds that threatened to choke out Eagle Butte’s Community Garden. One volunteer sharpened a hoe, another picked potato bugs off struggling young plants while a third attempted to start an old rotary tiller. And so the morning went—weed suppression, cultivation, and bug picking.