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The mini-Mars yard room is in full swing at the Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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SKC Offers New Science 4-year Teaching Degree
Salish Kootenai College (SKC), the tribal college on the Flathead Reservation in northwest Montana, is offering a new four-year degree to prepare students to be middle school and high school science teachers.
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Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
by Greg Cajete
Clear Light Publishers, Santa Fe, N.M.
328 pagesReview by Michael Wassegijig Price
Greg Cajete’s new book,
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Cultural Perspectives and the Nature of Science
Jack Barden describes the challenge of helping children understand Western science in order to take their rightful place in the modern world while at the same time understanding Native ways of handling information.
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Changing the System
It is well known that too few Indians pursue careers in the growing fields of science, math, engineering and technology. A solution, eagerly sought by educators,
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Report Proposes More Support to Math and Science Training
Tribal colleges are eager to train students in math and the sciences, but are hampered by limited money, geographic isolation and poor student preparation, according to a new report from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
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Tribal Colleges and Traditional Knowledge
Tribal colleges may be the most important movement we have in Indian country today. In certain fundamental ways they are the only transitional institutions standing between the reservation population and the larger society that can bring services and information to Indian people.
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Teaching Minds, Healing Bodies: A Canadian college encourages students to enter health careers by emphasizing math and science skills
Preparing students for careers in health is a priority of Saskatchewan Indian Federated College.
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Turtle Mountain’s College for Kids: The Turtle Mountain reservation becomes a living laboratory for Indian students
The excitement of scientific discovery and the strength of traditional culture was combined for a week when 22 students from the Turtle Mountain area of North Dakota participated in Turtle Mountain Community College’s first College for Kids program during the summer of 1991.
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Looking After the Land: The Navajo Dryland Environments Laboratory researches the environmental needs of the Navajo Nation
Navajo Community College researches environmental issues for the Navajo nation.
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Blackfeet College Program Helps Make Math Accessible
Blackfeet Community College is working to strengthen math and science education for its community by joining in a partnership with teachers, public schools and four-year colleges.
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Nations of Scientists: Reclaiming a Legacy of Leadership in Science and Technology
Math and science is part of the native American heritage. With skill and creativity, indigenous peoples manipulated their environments and struggled, like all cultures, to understand their place in the cosmos.
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Learning Chemistry at Little Big Horn
Falistus Yellowmule used to study chemistry next to a sludge pit at Little Big Horn College on the Crow Reservation in eastern Montana. She now studies genetics in a modern lab at Montana State University. Today she aspires to go to Harvard, become a doctor and return to help her community.
