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21st
Century Community Learning Centers
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced the award of nearly
$206 million in new 21st Century Community Learning Center grants. The
new grants will go to 308 school districts, working in partnership with
community-based organizations, to establish centers in 1,420 rural and
inner-city public schools.
http://www.ed.gov/21stcclc/
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AACTE
Education Policy Clearinghouse
This site is designed to help users access information on education
policy at the national, regional, or state level.
http://www.edpolicy.org/
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Alfonso
Ortiz Research Center
Welcome
to the HomePage of the University of New Mexico Anthropology Department
and the Maxwell Museum’s National Endowment for the Humanities grant
proposal requesting funding for the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural
Studies.
http://www.unm.edu/~rleonard/neh.htm
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America's
First Nations: American Indians in Social Studies Curricula
Featuring classroom-tested curricula on Native
Americans with reproducible copies of primary source documents from
Marquette University and elsewhere. These materials were created by
select teacher-scholars who participated in America's First Nations:
American Indians in Social Studies Curricula, a summer 2000 teacher
institute hosted by Marquette University and funded by National Endowment
for the Humanities.
http://www.marquette.edu/library/neh/general/index.htm
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American
Indian Learning Styles Survey
This study is an exploratory effort to determine
current thinking about learning styles from the perspective of those
groups closely associated with American Indian students, i.e., teachers
and administrators of the schools attended by American Indian students.
The study assumes that there is a pervasive, but not clearly defined,
understanding by practitioners of learning styles relating to American
Indian people. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent
of teacher knowledge about learning styles and to determine the extent
to which this knowledge is applied in classrooms attended by American
Indian students.
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/jeilms/vol13/americ13.htm
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American
Indian Math and Science Summer Camp
Students will interact with Native role models
and peers who share common interests in mathematics and science. They
will stay in Residence Halls on the Minneapolis campus. Classes, science
and computer labs will be available in Appleby Hall. In addition to
classroom activities, students will go on several field trips, learn
about the connections of their culture and the sciences and experience
life on a major research campus. Live-in camp counselors will be on
duty 24 hours a day. All meals will be provided.
http://www.gen.umn.edu/nativecamp
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American
Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
http://www.aises.org
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Blackfeet
Youth Initiative
BYI strives to break down stereotypes and inequalities
between Native Americans and non-Native Americans by building up youth
leaders in service to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~oaj108/byinew/byihome
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Bureau
of Indian Affairs Educational Employment Board
http://www.biaeducationjobs.com
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Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Office Of Indian Education
The mission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office
of Indian Education Programs, is to provide quality education opportunities
from early childhood through life in accordance with Tribe's needs for
cultural and economic well-being in keeping with the wide diversity
of Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages as distinct cultural and
governmental entities. The Bureau shall manifest consideration
of the whole person, taking into account the spiritual, mental, physical
and cultural aspects of the person within family and Tribal or Alaska
Native village contexts.
http://www.oiep.bia.edu/
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Burns
Telecommunications Center
The mission of the Burns Telecommunications Center
is to mobilize resources to acquire, integrate, demonstrate, and teach
applications for telecommunications and multi-media technologies that
will enhance education, business and personal growth.
http://btc.montana.edu/about/
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Camas
Institute
The Camas Institute, a chartered entity of the
Kalispel Tribe, provides educational and employment opportunities to
Kalispel tribal members, and other Native American people living on
or near the Kalispel lands and the general public. The institute provides
vocational and occupational training, community services, Indian culture
and history education including GED preparation and testing. Other activities
and services will be expanding into chemical dependency treatment and
cultural exchanges.
http://www.camasinstitute.com/camasframe.htm
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Center
for Multilingual Multicultural Research
The Center is an organized research unit at the University of Southern
California, facilitating the research collaboration, dissemination and
professional development activities of faculty, students, and others
across School of Education, university and outside organizational lines.
Faculty in the Rossier School of Education developed the USC Center
for Multilingual, Multicultural Research in the Spring of 1983, as a
result of deliberations of the Dean's Task Force for Bilingual Crosscultural
Education. The Center provides a base for those interested in multilingual
education, English-as-a second language, and foreign language instruction,
multicultural education and related areas; and the opportunity to cometogether
for research and program collaboration.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR
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Changes
in American Indian Education: A Historical Retrospective for Educators
in the United States. ERIC Digest
THE
BRIEF RETROSPECTIVE in this Digest should interest all American educators
concerned with such enduring issues as equity and equality of educational
opportunity, local autonomy, community involvement, curriculum development,
and the relationship of cultural values to the way schooling is conducted
in general.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed314228.html
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Characteristics
of American Indian and Alaska Native Education
American Indian and Alaska Native students comprise
approximately 1 percent of the total student population in the United
States. Consequently, these students, and the schools and staff that
serve them, are rarely represented in sufficient numbers in national
education studies to permit reliable and valid generalizations about
their characteristics. Additionally, because of tribal and linguistic
diversity, geographic dispersion, and preponderence in remote rural
areas, researchers have found it too costly to add supplemental samples
of Indian schools and students to other data collection programs.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs97/97451.html
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Drop-Out
Rates among American Indian and Alaska Native Students:
Although the transition to
high school poses difficulties for all students, American Indian/Alaska
Native (AI/AN) students regularly face additional obstacles that can
impede their progress in school. Indeed, according to a recent study,
25.4 percent of AI/AN students who should have graduated in 1992 dropped
out of school--the highest percentage of all racial/ethnic groups in
the U.S.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed388492.html
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EdTechNot.com
This site contains articles from leaders
in the field of educational technology on the merits and pitfalls of
using the technology in schools.
http://www.edtechnot.com
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Education to Careers
We are going to provide you information and knowledge
on how to take advantage of Education and Career opportunities for fulfilling
Your Dreams.
http://www.education-to-careers.com/
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En'owkin Centre
A native controlled spiritually based cultural
educational resources organization and charity committed to reinstating
vital Native philosophy and practise into human living in all its aspects.
Our staff is qualified and skilled especially in developing and implementing
native mechanisms to achieve our objectives and goals. We are committed
to working with all peoples to achieve harmony and health within our
communities. The word En'owkin is a commitment to creating a new paradigm.
http://www.enowkincentre.ca/
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Exercise
for Teaching Diversity
We often think that teaching our children
about diversity is a long and difficult task. However as the following
exercise shows, it can be as simple as peeling a lemon:
http://www.adl.org/issue_education/hateprejudice/Prejudice7.html
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First Americans
for Grade Schoolers
About the site. This site was produced by Karen Martin, MA in Education
and member of the Muscogee Nation. Many people have offered ideas and
feedback including Ms. Casey, a 3rd grade Teacher at Cabello Elementary
School, Stephanie Fryberg, a Phd. student in sociology.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/
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Four Directions
4Directions is a project administered by the Laguna
Department of Education which focuses on integrating Native American
culture and technology into education in a way that enables students
to maintain and learn their heritage while taking full advantage of
their future
http://www.4directions.org/
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GEAR UP
The mission of GEAR UP is to significantly increase the number of low-income
students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education
http://www.ed.gov/gearup/index.html
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The
Institute of Ethnic Studies • College of Arts and Sciences
Ethnic
Studies refers to the investigation, exploration, and involvement with
those factors and areas that bear on the lives and experiences, both
past and present, of ethnically distinct minority groups in the U.S.
The Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
is composed of three separate programs: Latino and Latin American Studies,
African American and African Studies, and Native American Studies. Although
they operate together under the leadership of a single Director, each
program has its own coordinator and plans its own curriculum and activities.
http://www.unl.edu/unlies/
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Interesting Things for
ESL Students
This site is a collection of activities, games,
and puzzles for students who study English as a second language.
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/
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Journal of American Indian Education
The Journal of American Indian Education is a
peer reviewed scholarly journal, which publishes papers specifically
related to the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
http://jaie.asu.edu/
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Kidlink
Native Americans are invited to join Kidlink's Who-Am-I? educational
program in their languages. Out of 176 living languages listed, most
are endangered, and spoken by less than 2 million American Indians,
Eskimos, and Aleuts.
http://www.kidlink.org
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Knife
River Indian Villages - Teachers Guide
The purpose of this Teacher's Guide is to provide history and social
science teachers, at all grade levels, with information and activities
about the American Indians of the Northern Plains, who lived in the
area of the Knife River where it enters the Missouri. This area is now
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site.
http://www.nps.gov/knri/teach/intro.htm
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Lakota Tipi
Camp & Cultural Tour
We, at Lakota Tipi Camp & Cultural Tour would
be honored to have you experience our land, culture, dance, music, art,
and people during your visit. We know your stay will be a most positive
experience and will be remembered for years to come.
http:www.lakotatipicamp.com
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Learning
from the Dakota
This guide for a Fifth Grade Social Studies Unit
is based on the book Painting the Dakota: Seth Eastman at Fort Snelling,
published by Afton Historical Society Press. The unit can be used as
a two week unit, but resources and activities are provided to expand
the unit. Teachers are encouraged to use this guide not as a fixed script,
but rather as a foundation from which to build.
http://www.ccsmdc.org/crp/edu.html
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Library of Congress
American Memory Project:
Each Learn More About It focuses on an
individual American Memory collection. Educators and historians from
across the country reviewed American Memory and generated ideas for
these collections according to their relevance to U.S. history, social
studies, and language arts.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
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Lifeskills Center for
Leadership
The LifeSkills Center for Leadership is comprised
of Native American Trainers dedicated to the growth and learning of
Native Youth. Educated in the field of Leadership Development and the
Power of Communication. Our team facilitates proven processes needed
to empower and encourage youth to reach their full potential.
http://www.lifeskills-center.org/
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Lit Site-Alaska
LitSite promotes literacy and reading in Alaska by displaying the writing
of Alaskans. Teachers or anyone interested in promoting literacy in
a community can use the instructional materials here.
http://litsite.alaska.edu/uaa
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Looking
At Ourselves and Others
Looking at Ourselves and Others, a revision of
an earlier World Wise Schools publication of the same title, introduces
students to the concepts of perspective, culture, and cross-cultural
relations. Specifically, the readings and activities in this guide are
designed to help students: Recognize and appreciate differences in perception
among individuals and cultures; Define culture and recognize its role
in developing perceptions of ourselves and others; Challenge assumptions,
promote cross-cultural awareness, and provide opportunities to practice
the behaviors that make cross-cultural communication possible.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/guides/looking/index.html
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The
Mexi'cayotl Indio Cultural Center
Danza Mexi'cayotl is composed of 25 dancers, musicians
and craft persons. The focus of Mexi'cayotl is the family. The majority
of dancers belong to families that comprise the dance circle. The young
unmarried dancers are for the most part college students interested
in entering the traditional Mexican Native American community. The ages
of the dancers range from 2 to 55 years.
http://www.mexicayotl.org/
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Milken Family Foundation
The purpose of the Milken Family Foundation
is to discover and advance inventive and effective ways of helping people
help themselves and those around them lead productive and satisfying
lives.
http://www.mff.org/index.taf
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Museum of the Cherokee
We have a series of Cherokee language lessons
available for review and direct email.
http://www.cherokeemuseum.org/
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Nahuatl
Gateway
Over the years that Nahuat-l has been in existence
many subscribers have shared the fruits of their research. Most of these
are important resources for the study of Nahuatl.
http://www.mrs.umn.edu/academic/history/Nahuatl/gateway.html
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NAMES
NAMES is an innovative adult education project
that nurtures a reclaiming of individual power through the education
process. Thereby it provides opportunities for employment, job advancement,
vocational or college education, career-building, increased self-esteem,
improved leadership potential and cultural understanding.
http://www.alphacdc.com/names/
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Nizipuhwahsin
(Original Language) Center
Nizipuhwahsin (Original Language) Center is
a nationally recognized as a successful and effective model for Native
language immersion with a multi-generational approach. Nizipuhwahsin
Center's mission is to use the Blackfeet language as the tool (not object)
of instruction within a local context to produce fluent speakers of
the Blackfeet language. In operation since 1995, Nizipuhwahsin offers
full day programming for children age 5-12. Our objective is to develop
highly skilled learners who are knowledgeable in both Blackfeet and
world academia.
http://www.pieganinstitute.org/nizipuh.htm
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National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation is a nationally registered
charitable organization created in 1985 by Mohawk conductor and composer
John Kim Bell. Now entering its 16th year, the Foundation has fulfilled
educational dreams for Aboriginal youth, placed the importance of education
and the abilities of Aboriginal people into the forefront, and built
an organization that is financially sound.
http://www.naaf.ca/
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National Indian Education Association
The mission of the National Indian Education
Association is to support traditional Native cultures and values, to
enable Native learners to become contributing members of their communities,
to promote Native control of educational institutions, and to improve
educational opportunities and resources for American Indians and Alaska
Natives throughout the United States.
http://www.niea.org/
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National
Indian Telecommunications Institute
The National Indian Telecommunications Institute is a dynamic, Native-founded
and run organization dedicated to using the power of electronic technologies
to provide American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native communities
with extensive educational tools, equal opportunity and a strong voice
in self- determination.
http://numa.niti.org/
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Native Access to
Engineering
We envisage a world where the representation
of Aboriginal People among doctors, engineers, carpenters, entrepreneurs,
biotechnologists, scientists, computer specialists, artists, professors,
archaeologists and individuals in other careers is comparable to that
of any other segment of the population. Aboriginal leaders who signed
treaties earlier in our history sought education that would give their
children the knowledge and skills to participate as equals in the Canadian
economy that was emerging. We are still far from realizing this goal.
http://www.nativeaccess.com/start.htm
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Native
American Homeschool Association Web Site
For everyone wanting to know more...
http://www.expage.com/page/nahomeschool
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Native Child
Develops Curriculum Material for Preschools
with a Focus on Native American Tribes; Resources for the Classroom
PreK-3
http://www.nativechild.com/indextest.html
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Native Journal
A unique conference designed to excite
Native American high school and college students about journalism as
a career attracted 73 students and 24 student advisers to South Dakota’s
Black Hills April 27 and 28, 2000, and 112 students the second year,
April 25 and 26, 2001.
http://www.nativejournal.com/
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Nunavut
Sivuniksavut
Nunavut Sivuniksavut is a unique eight-month college
program based in Ottawa. It is for Inuit youth from Nunavut who want
to get ready for the educational, training, and career opportunities
that are being created by the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) and
the new Government of Nunavut.
http://www.nstraining.ca/
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The
Nunavut Youth Abroad Program
The
Nunavut Youth Abroad Program (NYAP) helps to develop leadership, cross-cultural
awareness, career ideas, and international citizenship. The NYAP will
improve your ability to succeed in High School and life by providing
a life-changing and life-directing experience relevant to your needs
and aspirations. The program enables Nunavut youth to acquire concrete
skills in the areas of journalism, communications, environmental conservation,
office administration and management through work placements for credit
during placements in communities across Canada and around the world.
These skills are crucial if youth are to play a greater role in the
decision-making process of the new Nunavut territory.
http://www.web.net/~nyap/english.htm
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Principals
for conducting research
The following principles have been formulated
to provide guidance for researchers in the physical, biological and
social sciences and the humanities
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/ethics.html
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Project Willow
Understanding Native American Culture through
Enviromental Education
http://www.unr.edu/nnap/PW/pw_main.htm
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ProTeacher!
Native Americans lesson plans for elementary school teachers
Teachers, here's a site for you-lesson
plans, links, and activities for the elementary teacher
http://www.proteacher.com/090018.shtml
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Rethinking Schools
Fifteen years ago, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision.
They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and
schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system
in the United States. Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking Schools.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org
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San Joaquin River
Intertribal Heritage Educational Corporation
The San Joaquin River Intertribal Heritage
Educational Corporation is dedicated to working with youth and adults
in the preservation of Native American philosophy, and has made a commitment
to preserving the ecology through hands on experience. The school offers
tours for schools and institutions as well as individuals.
http://www.bearvisions.com/SJRIHEC/
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Seventh Generation
Club
In schools across the province, First
Nations students are getting involved in a fast-growing phenomenon called
the Seventh Generation Club. Over 4000 students, ages 6 to 16 years,
are club members, and they get to take part in contests, pen-pal programs,
and reading programs.
http://www.seventhgenerationclub.com/
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Some Rare and
Radical Ideas for Keeping Indigenous Languages Alive
Dr. Littlebear's paper and poem are adapted
from a speech delivered at the Fourth Annual Stabilizing Indigenous
Languages Symposium at Flagstaff, Arizona, on May 2, 1997
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/RIL_1.html
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Sovereign Nations Preservation
Project
Non-profit Provider of Educational Media Benefiting
Native Americans
http://www.snppi.org/
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Students on Ice
STUDENTS ON ICE organizes unique learning expeditions
to the Antarctic and the Arctic. Our mandate is to provide students
from around the world with inspiring educational opportunities at the
ends of our earth, and in doing so, help them foster a new understanding
and respect for our planet.
http://www.studentsonice.com
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Surrounded
By Beauty - Arts of Native America
There is no equivalent in the many Native American
languages for the word art. Yet the objects here suggest that Native
Americans are a highly spiritual people who create objects of extraordinary
beauty. In Native American thought there is also no distinction between
what is beautiful or functional, and what is sacred or secular. Design
goes far beyond concerns of function, and beauty is much more than simple
appearances.
http://www.artsmia.org/surrounded-by-beauty/
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Taking the Bully by the
Horns
In a recent study, 76.8% of the students said they had been bullied.
And 14% of those who were bullied said they experienced severe (bad)
reactions to the abuse. It's time to take those bullies by the horns!
http://hometown.aol.com/kthynoll
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Teaching
Diversity: A Place to Begin
We all want children to grow up in a world
free from bias and discrimination, to reach for their dreams and feel
that whatever they want to accomplish in life is possible. We want them
to feel loved and included and never to experience the pain of rejection
or exclusion. But the reality is that we do live in a world in which
racism and other forms of bias continue to affect us. Discrimination
hurts and leaves scars that can last a lifetime, affecting goals, ambitions,
life choices, and feelings of self-worth.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/teachdive/placetobegin.htm
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Tim Rollins and
K.O.S.
Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival)
have worked together collaboratively since the early 1980s when Rollins,
a special ed teacher assigned to public school 52 in the South Bronx,
established the Art and Knowledge workshop for students with learning
disabilities.
http://www.diacenter.org/kos/home.html
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TITLE
I -- NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES ACT
The Congress finds that--the status of
the cultures and languages of native Americans is unique and the United
States has the responsibility to act together with Native Americans
to ensure the survival of these unique cultures and languages;
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/stabilize/ii-policy/nala1990.htm
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Tribal Library Census
and Needs Assessment Study
Why a Census of Tribal Libraries? In the
late 1990s, after fifteen years of planning, the state of California
passed the Library of California Act to establish a statewide multi-type
library resource sharing network.
http://www.csusm.edu/bbiggs/loc/
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Welcome to Oyate
Oyate is not a bookstore. Oyate is a Native organization working to
see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that
all people will know our stories belong to us.
http://www.oyate.org
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Welcome to The CRADLEBOARD
Teaching Project
The Cradleboard Teaching Project turns on the lights in public education
about Native American culture - past, present, and most important for
the children - the Future. It comes out of Indian country, and reaches
far beyond, into the mainstream classroom and into the future of education.
http://www.cradleboard.org/main.html
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Wisconsin Indian Education Association
Promoting education and educationally
related opportunities for American Indian people in Wisconsin.
http://www.wiea.org/
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YET
SUN HEYWA
The University of Victoria's Maltwood Museum and
Art Gallery is proud to present its collection of Northwest Coast First
Nations prints. Having 2000 prints in their collection, this website
was established to make a small sample of this art globally accessible.
The goal is to present these images in a stimulating and informative
manner through SchoolNet. The user will encounter the art in the form
of a game: It is an educational art game. It will test the user's learning
of the Northwest Coast First Nations peoples and their art.
http://kafka.uvic.ca/~maltwood/nwcp/central/about.html
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Young
Native Scholars
Entering its fourth year, American Indian Academic
Outreach and Young Native Scholars (YNS) support high/middle school
and college students with the resources, information and motivation
to pursue higher education and improve retention. YNS is a year-round
academic enrichment and outreach program, highly innovative, unique
and engaging. Identification as "scholars", students allow
themselves a positive metaphor, a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Students are given access to the best mentors and professionals the
community and nation have to offer.
http://www.nativescholars.org/
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