{"title":"Reports from the Field: Addressing Challenges of Culturally Responsive Schooling for Native American Students in Low Density Schools","authors":"Barbara Nolan","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2013.a798503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2013.a798503","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Based on a sample of elementary school teacher candidates (n = 142) from a teacher training institution on Long Island, New York, this study examined teacher candidates' perceptions of elementary school curriculum related to Native American peoples in general and local Native communities in particular. Teacher candidates were surveyed on their degree of knowledge about local Native people, as well as the degree to which they believed it was important to include the history and contemporary cultures of local Native groups into elementary school curriculum. Results showed that teacher candidates had limited understanding of and knowledge about local Native tribes. They were, however, overwhelmingly interested in learning about diversity in the elementary classroom, yet a high percentage (34 percent) were opposed to integrating curriculum on local Native communities into their teacher training program. Likewise, a comparably high percentage of the respondents reported limited interest in learning about Native groups who lived only minutes from the college they attended. Results highlight the need for meaningful discussion among school districts, teacher preparation programs, and Native communities on the preparedness of new teachers to teach Native American content in general and local content in particular.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"52 1","pages":"45 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45983046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors’ Introduction","authors":"B. Brayboy, K. T. Lomawaima, T. Mccarty","doi":"10.1515/9783110698787-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110698787-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"57 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46670932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Student Perceptions of American Indian Financial Aid","authors":"J. Mendez, J. Mendez","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2013.a798496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2013.a798496","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Utilizing Tribal Critical Race Theory as a conceptual framework, this study examines student perceptions and attitudes toward American Indian students and financial aid, illustrating how perception may exacerbate campus hostility toward American Indians. Our results show strong negative perceptions towards financial aid policies aimed at increasing American Indian enrollment. Further, these negative perceptions are most prevalent among White students, those with unfavorable views towards American Indian tribes and those who perceive a large majority of American Indians already receive financial aid.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"52 1","pages":"45 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47005741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing Teachers to Contribute to Educational Change in Native Communities: Navigating Safety Zones in Praxis","authors":"Danielle R. Lansing","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2014.a798527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2014.a798527","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Mainstream colleges and universities purport theories of schooling and child development that powerfully dominate the content, processes, and knowledge shaping how Native students are trained as teachers. Tribal colleges and universities can be viable alternatives to this reality. This article reports on findings from a qualitative inquiry documenting what happens when a tribal college early childhood education program shifts the paradigm in teacher education by employing the Safety Zone Theory (Lomawaima & McCarty, 2006) as a means for Native student teachers to negotiate opportunities to be responsive to the Native communities they serve. Analysis of data from student questionnaires, student reflections, and observational notes is guided by Lomawaima and McCarty's Safety Zone Theory. Findings suggest early learning centers serving Native children and families are highly complex educational spaces in which novice and experienced teachers must effectively negotiate instructional practices and implement culturally relevant and responsive learning for tribal children.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"53 1","pages":"25 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42662374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. A. Carlyle, N. L. Thompson, R. Hare, Nicole C. Miller, Leslie Purvis
{"title":"Postsecondary Transitions of Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Scholarship Program Students","authors":"G. A. Carlyle, N. L. Thompson, R. Hare, Nicole C. Miller, Leslie Purvis","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2011.a798453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2011.a798453","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The purpose of this study was to explore the postsecondary education transition experiences of graduates of Choctaw Central High School (CCHS) who received support from the tribal scholarship program (TSP), to better understand the barriers to successful postsecondary completion and means of overcoming barriers. A total of 87 TSP-supported students participated as survey respondents. Purposeful sampling in the form of maximum variation was used to select six respondents for interviews. Findings documented three barriers to successful postsecondary completion: (1) racial conflict with peers or faculty, (2) being overwhelmed academically, and (3) having to care for a legal dependent. The barriers are discussed in the context of three primary factors related to postsecondary completion for American Indian students: sociocultural, academic, and personal factors.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"50 1","pages":"42 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47804333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"K'winya'nya:n-ma'awhiniw: Creating a Space for Indigenous Knowledge in the Classroom","authors":"Kishan Lara-Cooper","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2014.a798516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2014.a798516","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This Indigenous research project foregrounds the voices of Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk tribal members who reside on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation (HVIR), located in northern California. In an effort to shift the paradigm of education from monological to multilogical, this qualitative study examines the concept of giftedness as it is defined and practiced by an Indigenous community. This study opens a discussion of how identifying giftedness influences a child's self-concept, self-esteem, and social identity. The article thus provides a knowledge base for Native American teacher preparation programs, tribal education programs, public and private school systems, gifted and talented programs, school site councils, researchers, and curriculum developers to create a space for Indigenous knowledge in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"53 1","pages":"22 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44872841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"USDE Violations of NAIA and the Testing Boycott at Nāwahīokalani'ōpu'u School","authors":"William (Pila) H. Wilson","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2012.a798482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2012.a798482","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:NALA protections have special relevance to Hawai'i, where the local Native American language has official status. The United States has pursued NALA-like policies in its foreign policy, protesting, for example, suppression of Tibetan-medium education in China. Yet, hypocritically, federally imposed NCLB testing is not NALA compliant and the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) suppresses use of Native American languages in schools in Hawai'i and elsewhere. Examined here is the case of the P-12 Nāwahīokalani'ōpu'u School (Nāwahī). Nāwahī has produced 14 years of 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance, yet its academic success is federally required to be judged through testing using English — a language not used in the school to deliver academic content. Nāwahī parents have boycotted NCLB testing. While aware of the situation, the USDE has done nothing to address the discrimination. The state has complied with the USDE, while unsuccessfully trying to protect Hawaiian programs. Nāwahī is therefore undergoing corrective action.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"51 1","pages":"30 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45016005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legacies of NALA: The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act and Implications for Language Revitalization Policy and Practice","authors":"Larisa Warhol","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2012.a798484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2012.a798484","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article traces the development and implementation of the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act as a legacy of the 1990/1992 Native American Languages Act (NALA) as well as ongoing policy considerations within the larger context of the Native American language revitalization movement. While both educational and language policies for Native Americans remain highly complex and contradictory, NALA and Esther Martinez illuminate changing ideologies at both the local and national levels. This article explores how local community practice has changed whereby communities are choosing to revitalize and maintain their languages, creating official policies to support those languages and thereby creating new speakers. NALA as an official policy created a foundation for the possibility and development of other policies at the tribal, state and federal levels and has paved the way for policies like Esther Martinez as well as other local and tribal language policies.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"51 1","pages":"70 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45042299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Identity, Multicultural Competence and Resilience: A Pilot Study of Alaska Native Students' Experience at University","authors":"L. Wexler, T. Burke","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2011.a798448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2011.a798448","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars and university administrators have noted significant disparities in the rates at which Native students graduate from college in a timely manner relative to students from otherracial/ethnicgroups. It has been posited that this is because in order to succeed, Native students must negotiate the contradictory values of Western and Native cultures as they \"walk in two worlds.\" The cultural processes that are employed by a small number of Alaska Native students suggest that the \"two worlds\" metaphor is deceptive and that a more holistic, nuanced sense of cultural identity can promote youth resilience in response to sociocultural differences and difficult life events that Native students experience in college.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"50 1","pages":"44 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47510100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Analysis of Graduation Rates of American Indians at the University of New Mexico: Implications for Higher Education","authors":"L. Bitsóí, Kamala D. Sharma, S. S. Sibbett","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2013.a798500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2013.a798500","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2008-2009, the number of diplomas received by American Indians and Alaska Natives at mainstream U.S. universities was only 42 percent of the number expected from population demographics. The task of addressing this disparity is not borne evenly, but falls more heavily on schools located in regions of high density of Native people, such as the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (UNM). This article discusses factors which hinder achieving graduation rate parity at UNM: (1) the geographical remoteness of the campus; (2) cherry-picking of top students by elite institutions beyond state borders; (3) the success rate of enrolled Native students in earning a diploma; and (4) broad societal problems, including poverty, unemployment and racism. Despite a long history of attempts to address the needs of UNM's Native students and thereby improve graduation rates, UNM's 0.5 parity index is subpar, and has remained unchanged in the six most recent years for which data is available. Recommendations for a path forward are provided.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"52 1","pages":"21 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42928989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}