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Collected Wisdom: American Indian Education

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A journey in understanding

Collected Wisdom: American Indian Education
Linda Miller Cleary , and Thomas D. Peacock
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0205267572

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How do cultural differences and real-world issues affect the education of students, in this case, American Indian students? What approaches have real teachers found that work well with American Indian students? This books answers these and more thoughtful questions about teaching in today's diverse school communities. KEY TOPICS: This book captures the collected wisdom of nearly 60 teachers of American Indian students, their frustrations, joys, and challenges. It provides in a very real way, a portrait of the issues that challenge these students, as well as the successes some teachers have in working with American Indian students. It provides new and fresh perspectives on learning styles and literacy issues. It is also the first book to confront issues of historic oppression and its impact on contemporary Indian education. New and practicing teachers seeking to enhance their awareness and teaching methods to meet the needs of today's diverse classrooms.

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A must-read!.......2000-05-24

Possibly the most useful book available for anyone working in or considering working in elementary and secondary American Indian education. As a tribal school employee, I felt the authors may have used our school as a case study! Thought provoking and inspirational - highly recommended.

A journey in understanding.......1998-12-12

These gentle, generous-spirited writers have contributed a great deal to the field. Their book is full of stories, true tales of work in classrooms. Each leads you further into the depths of insight needed to be of use as an educator of Native American students.

Native People of Wisconsin / Teacher's Guide and Student Materials (New Badger History)

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The stories of the twelve Native Nations in Wisconsin

Native People of Wisconsin / Teacher's Guide and Student Materials (New Badger History)
Kori Oberle , and Bobbie Malone
Manufacturer: Wisconsin Historical Society
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 0870203495

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The companion teacher’s guide to Native People of Wisconsin offers a variety of activities that help students gain skills in expository reading and writing as well as reinforce the content of the student text. All the activities are interactive and link to the Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for the Social Studies. The accompanying CD-ROM includes video clips from the Wisconsin Studies instructional television programs, including the entire "New Dawn of Tradition: A Wisconsin Powwow" video, narrated by Patty Loew.

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The stories of the twelve Native Nations in Wisconsin.......2004-03-04

The fifth title in the outstanding "New Badger History" series for students ages 8 to 14, and written as readable, informational, and enjoyable for all ages, Native People Of Wisconsin by Patty Loew presents the stories of the twelve Native Nations in Wisconsin. Surveying the unique culture, traditions, tribal history, and life today for each nation, and wonderfully enhanced with maps, illustrations, pronunciation guidelines, a simple glossary, and more, Native People Of Wisconsin is an ideal addition to Native American Studies and Wisconsin History library collections and as a supplemental resource for grade school, middle school, and home schooling educational curriculums.

To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (Multicultural Education (Paper))

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To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education (Multicultural Education (Paper))
T. L. McCarty , and Teresa L. McCarty
Manufacturer: Teachers College Press
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Binding: Paperback

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American Indian Education: A History

ASIN: 0807747165

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What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic idealâone that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically evaluate U.S. education policies and practices, from early 20th Century federal incarnations of colonial education through the contemporary standards movement. In the process, they refute the notion of "dangerous cultural difference" and point to the promise of diversity as a source of national strength.

Featuring the voices and experiences of Native individuals that official history has silenced and pushed aside, this book:
* Proposes the theoretical framework of the "safety zone" to explain shifts in federal educational policies and practices over the past century.
* Offers lessons learned from Indigenous America's fight to protect and assert educational self-determination.
* Rebuts stereotypes of American Indians as one-dimensional learners.
* Argues that the struggle to revitalize and maintain Indigenous languages is a fundamental human right.
* Examines the standards movement as the most recent attempt to control the "dangerous difference" allegedly posed by students of color, poor and working-class students, and English language learners in U.S. schools.

Widening the Circle: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for American Indian Children

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Widening the Circle: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for American Indian Children
Beverly J. Klug
Manufacturer: TF-ROUTL
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ASIN: 0415935113

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It is estimated that between 40-60% of American Indian students drop out of school each year. Klug and Whitfield take a critical look at the issues of American Indian education to suggest a way to change this trend. Recognizing the need for a pedagogy that better serves American Indian students, Widening the Circle constructs a culturally relevant model of teaching that blends native and non-native worldviews and methods. Among the building blocks of this new pedagogy are the use of oral histories to supplement traditional texts and a re-evaluation of the knowledge base these students need for academic success.

Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences

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A magnificent collection of writings, poems, photographs

Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences

Manufacturer: Heard Museum
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ASIN: 0934351627

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The institutional life of boarding school is a common thread running through American Indian history-a history that will not be forgotten. Here are stories of the strategies of human survival-resistance, accommodation, faith in oneself and one's heritage, the ability to learn from hard times and to create something beautiful and meaningful from scraps and fragments. Accompanies a permanent exhibition at The Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona).

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A magnificent collection of writings, poems, photographs.......2002-06-03

Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences is a magnificent collection of writings, poems, photographs, and paintings and illustrations that document American Indian boarding school experiences in the U. S. between 1879-2000. It was collected as a part of a display on exhibit at the Heard Museum until 2005. From the beautiful but sad painting on the cover (Untitled oil on canvas by Angel de Cora, Winnebago) to the dozens of historical photographs within of different aspects of the various Native American boarding school histories, to the poignant letters, poems, and memories of the many contributors, Away From Home is a revelation of repressed racial memories that underlines the need for dialogue specifically with Native voices in order to accept responsibility as well as to encompass and "enrich our view of America's past, present and future (Page 135, Brenda Child)." Away From Home presents a rich assortment of written and pictured memories from such boarding schools as Carlisle Indian School of Pennsylvania, Sherman Indian School, Riverside, California, and Flandreau Indian School, South Dakota. Both the many negative and some surprising positive aspects of boarding school existence are explored. The shattering impact on family and ethnic identification of the boarding school student is not avoided. The notion that perhaps an apology is owed to present day survivors' descendants is actually obliquely presented in a referent to the "Sorry Day" movement of Aboriginal people in Australia. At least the impact of exhibits and books such as Away From Home contain the impetus to a needed dialogue that has yet to be fully heard. Away From Home is a rich collection, filled with many voices and bitter experiences that were braided into strengths. It is a treasure and a measure of the many colors of beauty in the human spirit.

Kill The Indian, Save The Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools

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interesting subject-uninspiring author
A core contribution to Native American Studies

Kill The Indian, Save The Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools
Ward Churchill
Manufacturer: City Lights Books
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ASIN: 0872864340

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For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880â€“1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill the Indian to save the man." Half of the children did not survive the experience, and those who did were left permanently scarred. The resulting alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to their own children has led to a social disintegration with results that can only be described as genocidal.

Ward Churchill is the author of A Little Matter of Genocide, among other books. He is currently a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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interesting subject-uninspiring author.......2006-01-13

This book covers a facinating and underexamined area of US history. I was very much looking forward to reading it. The author clearly is extremely well-educated on this subject. The problem is -- he's boring. Ward Churchill writes like your typical college professor who turned you off history forever by being pedantic and uninspiring. I've worked as a book editor in the past and I have found that often the more education a writer has the worse his or her books are. Churchill seems to be underlining his scholarship with tediousness and seems to be over his head in information with no way to convey it in an readable manner. His editor should be fired for not making this book comprehensible to a wider audience. It isn't a doctoral thesis, for crying out loud. It's a disappointing treatment of what should have been an enlightening and educating experience. I wish I'd saved my money and hope, considering all the books Churchill has listed on Amazon, that he has, or will, learn to write well.

A core contribution to Native American Studies .......2005-03-10

From 1880 to 1980 the families of Native Americans were cruelly disrupted by the United States and Canadian governments who forcibly removed children from their homes and relocated them in residential schools. The stated goal of this intrusive and brutal governmental program was to "kill the Indian to save the man". Half of the children died in this process of cultural remodeling refashioning aboriginal children into the clothing, hairstyles, attitdudes, and langauges of the larger white culture, and those who survived were often left permanently scarred resulting in alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to succeeding generations down to the present day. A core contribution to Native American Studies curriculums and academic library reference collections, Ward Churchill (a Keetowah Cherokee and Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder) clearly lays out this unhappy chapter in Native American history with considerable detail and expertise in Kill The Indian, Save The Man: The Genocidal Impact Of American Indian Residential Schools.

Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist Culture (Frontiers in Education Series)

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Educating Black Resistance

Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist Culture (Frontiers in Education Series)
R. Patrick Soloman
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)

ASIN: 0791408485

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From the Publisher & a Critic.......2005-10-08

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"This book investigates and brings into focus the formidable issues of racial culture left undeveloped in research on multiracial school populations in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Through ethnographic research, the author presents significant and provocative insight into the formation of black self-concept, and captures the complex interplay between black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology and their resistance to the powerful structural forces operating within the school. It offers practical suggestions for working constructively with racial and ethnic sub-cultures as well as offering suggestions to school districts in the process of planning or implementing race and ethnic relations policies."

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"Based on his ethnographic research, Solomon (education, York U., Toronto) tackles issues in multiracial school populations in the US, Canada, and Britain that have not previously been addressed. He explores the formation of black self-concept, black students' accommodation to the official achievement ideology, and their resistance to the structural forces in the schools. Paper edition (unseen)"--Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Educating Black Resistance.......2000-07-13

Does tracking in our public schools isolate children, keeping them from reaching their potential? How do first generation, black immigrants handle tracking? These are some of the questions R. Patrick Solomon attempts to answer in his ground breaking book, Black Resistance in High School.

Useing multicultural education theory from one of the pioneers, John U. Ogbu, Salomon shows how first generation West Indies immigrants rebel against school authority in Toronto Canada. Salomon's style of ethnographic writing combined with controversial theory make for an eye opening read.

Black Resistance in High School is a must for every student of education and anthropology.

Power and Place: Indian Education in America

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Sixteen thoughtful, informative essays
An impressive collection of sixteen essays
Starting with the wisdom of the ages

Power and Place: Indian Education in America
Vine Deloria , and Daniel R. Wildcat
Manufacturer: Fulcrum Publishing
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ASIN: 155591859X

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Formal Indian education in America stretches all the way from reservation preschools to prestigious urban universities far away from Indian cultural centers. This educational journey spans two distinct value systems and worldviews. At their meeting is the opportunity for the two cultures to both teach and learn from one another. Power and Place examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through the schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of sixteen essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary. It is an effort to open discussion about the unique experience of Native Americans and offers a concise reference for administrators, educators, students and community leaders involved with Indian education.

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good.......2003-07-24

That Native Americans are often treated as second class citizens is often due to the fact that they do not possess adequate educational, political and financial resources. Deloria and Wildcat analyze, in this eminently practical and thoughtful book, the causes and conditions that led to this state of affairs. They identify the European dialectic method as one of the key factors that alienate Native Americans. The problem, as they see it, is far from benign - dialectics as practiced in the academia not only champions a simplistic cause-and-effect reasoning which is far removed from the Indian tendency to view the world in a holistic, pan-theistic manner... it also produces isolated, self-absorbed individuals separated from their own bodies and their own society. Such separation is incomprehensible to the Indians, who view themselves primarily as members of a community and for whom individual achievements are largely meaningless without the context of the community support.

Another significant difference between the Native and Western educational approaches, say VD and DW, are that while the former stress personal growth from the early childhood on, the latter concentrate on factual learning during which the harmonious development of the personality takes the second seat to professional development. This produces what to the Indian seem deviant and psychopathic characters completely out of touch with their community and nature, focused as they are on making money and selfish personal advancement.

DeLoria and Wildcat offer several solutions which may aid native americans in navigating the perilous universe of disconnectedness that they face in the world-at-large while keeping to their values and worldviews. Even more, they identify how these values may actually aid them in becoming succesful without compromising themselves.

Recommended.

Sixteen thoughtful, informative essays.......2002-07-12

Power And Place: Indian Education In America is a selection and compilation of sixteen thoughtful, informative essays by authors Vine Deloria, Jr. (a Standing Rock Sioux and a retired university professor of political science and history), and Daniel R. Wildcat (a member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma and an American Indian Studies faculty member at Haskell Indian Nations University). Both of these learned authors present their perspectives on Native American education from public school through college levels, the challenges presented by the modern educational system and the question of self-determination as it affects young minds and futures. A book of thoughtful and thought provoking observations, Power And Place is a highly recommended contribution to Native American Studies and American Educational History supplemental reading lists and academic reference collections.

An impressive collection of sixteen essays.......2001-11-12

In Power And Place: Indian Education In America, Vine Deloria, Jr. (a Standing Rock Sioux, history professor, and former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians) effectively collaborates with Daniel Wildcat (a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, co-director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, and American Indian Studies faculty member at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas) to examine a range of pertinent issues facing Native American students as they progress through school systems, colleges, and move on into the professions. The philosophic, practical, and visionary aspects of contemporary Native American educational experiences are laid out in an impressive collection of sixteen essays. Power And Place is concise reference that is especially recommended for Native American Studies reference collections, as well as reading lists for those directly involved with American Education Studies as related to Native American experiences and concerns.

Starting with the wisdom of the ages.......2001-09-30

Wildcat has given practical understanding to Deloria's chant that Indian education should honor the essential tenants that define American Indian approaches to learning. Where the book, Primal Awareness, looks at the psychology that underlies this approach, Power and Place seeks to convince decision makers about Indian education that to replace indigenous priorities about power and place with "western" priorities is to continue cultural genocide.

Northeast Indians: Reproducible Models That Help Students Build Content Area Knowledge and Vocabulary and Learn About the Traditional Life of Native American Peoples (Easy Make & Learn Projects)

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Northeast Indians: Reproducible Models That Help Students Build Content Area Knowledge and Vocabulary and Learn About the Traditional Life of Native American Peoples (Easy Make & Learn Projects)
Donald M. Silver , and Patricia J. Wynne
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ASIN: 0439241162

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Meticulously researched, accurate, and informative—the paper models and lessons in this book will help you teach about Native American tribes of the Northeast. Focusing mainly on the pre-colonial period, students will learn where different tribes lived, about tribal histories and cultures, and how different peoples met their needs for shelter, clothing, food, transportation, and more. Each reproducible model comes with easy how-to’s, a step by step lesson, and extension activities.

First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds

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Excellent Review of Native Education Canada

First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds

Manufacturer: Univ of British Columbia Pr
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Excellent Review of Native Education Canada.......1999-04-02

Although I have not read all of this book I am fascinated by it. It has provided me with with an excellent overview of native education in Canada as well as the disparities that exist between "Western" and "Aboriginal" education.

A must have for anyone teaching in a native setting. Especially if he or she is from a different culture.

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