{"title":"Reports from the Field: American Indian Self-determination in Education and the Department of Interior","authors":"Thomas Hopkins","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2014.a798530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2014.a798530","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this Report from the Field, the author draws on over 60 years of experience in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) education to examine and reflect on the exercise of AI/AN educational selfdetermination. Using two cases as examples — one involving the federally mandated closure of two key off-reservation boarding schools and the other, nearly 30 years later, involving implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 — the author critiques the processes by which self-determination has been \"trumped\" by non-Indian, noneducator Interior Department officials. Bureau of Indian Educationfunded schools, dormitories, and programs are cautioned to monitor Department of Interior initiatives regarding American Indian rights to self-determination in education.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"53 1","pages":"54 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45012628","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":"Introduction to the Special Issue Examining and Applying Safety Zone Theory: Current Policies, Practices, and Experiences","authors":"K. T. Lomawaima, T. Mccarty","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2014.a798534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2014.a798534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"53 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45228257","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 Schools and Indigenous Knowledge Systems","authors":"B. Brayboy, T. Mccarty","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2013.a798509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2013.a798509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":" ","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44662524","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":"Indian Boarding Schools, Before and After: A Personal Introduction","authors":"K. T. Lomawaima","doi":"10.5749/JAMERINDIEDUC.57.1.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/JAMERINDIEDUC.57.1.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"57 1","pages":"11 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43312715","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}
K. A. Beck, P. Joshi, Christian Nsiah, Annette Ryerson
{"title":"The Impact of Sociability on College Academic Performance and Retention of Native Americans","authors":"K. A. Beck, P. Joshi, Christian Nsiah, Annette Ryerson","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2014.a798514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2014.a798514","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Colleges and universities have devoted considerable effort toward keeping students in school until graduation. Researchers accordingly have studied various factors that shape these retention rates, including integration into the school's culture and involvement in school activities as well as innate academic ability. Yet more studies need to specifically examine the complex mix of positive and negative influences on Native American student retention. This article evaluates some of those influences by investigating whether a strong desire for social interaction can encourage these students to succeed academically and remain in school until graduation. At one predominantly White institution lacking Native American organizations, we find that increased receptivity to social interactions by Native American students has a positive impact on grades but a negative influence on retention. We propose that schools should adopt a mix of general and culture-specific activities to encourage better Native American graduation rates.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"53 1","pages":"23 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46818276","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 Agency, Power, and Self-determination in Indigenous Education — Toward New Beginnings","authors":"B. Brayboy, T. Mccarty","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2013.a798493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2013.a798493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"52 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42824522","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}
P. Smagorinsky, Joanna L. Anglin, Cindy O’Donnell-Allen
{"title":"Identity, Meaning, and Engagement with School: A Native American Student's Composition of a Life Map in a Senior English Class","authors":"P. Smagorinsky, Joanna L. Anglin, Cindy O’Donnell-Allen","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2012.a798467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2012.a798467","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This case study of a Native American high school senior focuses on one of the final assignments he completed before dropping out of school early in the school year. The task was to draw a life map — a nonverbal text that identified 10 key life events on his journey to that point — as part of a larger unit on identity for his senior English class. The protocol analysis identified the possible topics he considered for inclusion in his life map, along with the cultural dimensions of the task that we infer kept him engaged enough to complete it at home while simultaneously producing the think-aloud protocol for the research. The article concludes with a consideration of the potential of assignments that enable nonverbal composing based on life and cultural experiences for engaging Indigenous students who are otherwise disengaged from school.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"51 1","pages":"22 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44030770","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":"Changing the Conversation: Promise and Vulnerability in Alaska Native Language Revitalization","authors":"Patrick E. Marlow, Sabine Siekmann","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2012.a798483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2012.a798483","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article details five interrelated university-school partnerships funded between 2002 and 2012. All five were funded under the U.S. Department of Education's Alaska Native Education program — a program made possible, in part, by the passage of the Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992. Through an empirical analysis of these projects, we seek to understand what these efforts may tell us about creating sustainable Native language revitalization efforts for Central Yup'ik and by extension other Alaska Native and American Indian languages. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach to analyze numerous grant artifacts and discussions between two project Pis and interviews with other project participants, we conclude that although it is too early to determine if efforts will have a long-term impact on language revitalization in the region, these efforts have succeeded in changing the nature of the conversation around language teaching and language revitalization, both within the university and the region.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"51 1","pages":"46 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43201288","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 Looking Forward from a \"Golden Anniversary\" Year","authors":"B. Brayboy, T. Mccarty","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2011.a798451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2011.a798451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"50 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44355640","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":"American Indian/Alaska Native Women: The Path to the Doctorate","authors":"M. Fox","doi":"10.1353/jaie.2013.a798495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2013.a798495","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article studies the experiences of 13 American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women who earned doctorates at mainstream universities. What barriers did they encounter on their path to earning a doctorate? Is this the norm? How did the women respond? What motivates them to thrive and graduate? The research is framed in the Indigenous values of relationships, responsibility, respect, and reciprocity (4Rs) and utilizes critical Indigenous research methodologies (CIRM). Data were collected through personal interviews focusing on four areas; background, experiences, culture/traditions, and advice. Analysis of the findings consists of examining the answers utilizing coding to establish common factors or themes. The study reveals that AI/AN women are encountering barriers in their doctoral studies, which include personal situations, cultural aspects, finances, academics, climate issues, racism, sexism, and gender bias. In the face of these challenges, Native women are relying upon a number of strategies to succeed; family, support networks, cultural identity, American Indian personnel, commitment to community, and maintaining a balance between personal and academic life.","PeriodicalId":90572,"journal":{"name":"Journal of American Indian education","volume":"52 1","pages":"26 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43847579","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}