Volume 13 1973 Contents
- Issue 1 October 1973
- A NATIVE AMERICAN THEATRE ENSEMBLE
Kent R. Brown [pp. 1-6]
Describes the formation of the Native American Theatre Ensemble and gives a brief summary of its development through the past year and a half. The article discusses finding financial support, legends transformed into drama and cultural heritage maintained. According to the author, the future dream of the Ensemble is to organize a performing arts group within every tribe large and viable enough to sustain one. * - A TRIBAL AMERICAN PRESCHOOL
John Long; Lena Canyon; David Churchman [pp. 7-13]
Gives an overview of the structure of and the methods used in this preschool in Los Angeles established by the Tribal American Consulting Corporation. The article reviews the three types of instruction employed with the children. According to the article, in all three models, preschool-aged children were developing skills, attitudes and knowledge that they would later need in the public schools. - ACADEMIC TREATMENT OF THE INDIAN IN
PUBLISHED SCHOOL TEXTS AND LITERATURE
R. Clark Mallan [pp. 14-19]
Reports on the author's in-depth study of materials and curriculum practices being used at the Lawrence, Kansas school that his children attended in the fall of 1971. The article explores (1) the interviewing of administration and faculty to determine how Native American curricular materials are selected, (2) specific faculty interviews concerning the amount of time allotted to teaching units on American Indians, and (3) examination and evaluation of curricular materials used. The author concludes that the American Indian educational materials of the elementary school are in large part ethnocentric, inaccurate, distorted and denigrative. - MUSEUMS AND AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
Patrick T. Houlihan [pp. 20-21]
Comments on three programs of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, conducted to aid in American Indian education. The article examines (1) Navajo Community College exhibits featuring paintings and artifacts, (2) Payson Apaches' study of their past featuring the building of "home craft" industries, and (3) the Institute for American Indian Art featuring the video taping of the Heard's contemporary Indian sculpture exhibit. - ORAL LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND READING
ACHIEVEMENT AMONG SELECTED STUDENTS
Maurine A. Fry; Carole Schulte Johnson [pp. 22-27]
Study conducted to explore the relation between oral language and reading achievement among two groups of culturally different children. The study examined 45 second grade Pima-Maricopa students attending public schools in Mesa, Arizona, and attending a BIA Day School in nearby Scottsdale. According to the authors, little confidence could be placed in the absence of a relation between intelligence and reading achievement among second grade Indian boys. - INDIAN STUDENTS TO SERVE AS LIBRARIANS
[No Author] [p. 28]
An article briefly reviewing an educational project at Arizona State University to graduate trained librarians who can return to the reservation and work in libraries run by the BIA or local school districts. The article states, "Currently there are only five or six Indian librarians in the U.S." - DO-NE-HO-GEH-WAH: SENECA SACHEM AND
CIVIL ENGINEER
Neal Fritz Simons [pp. 31-32]
Recounts the life of Ely Spencer Parker, A Sachem of the Seneca Nation, a civil engineer and Commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Grant. According to the article, "Do-Ne-Ho-Geh-Wet ('Keeper of the Western Door') was interred in the land of the Senecas in the shadow of the monument of his idol, Red Jacket, in Buffalo, New York."
- Rare Papers
- A NATIVE AMERICAN THEATRE ENSEMBLE
- Issue 2 January 1974
- AN ALTERNATIVE TO FAILURE
Paul Fitzgerald; Thomas Davis [pp. 1-3]
A discussion on the beginnings and first year accomplishments of the Menominee County Community School at Keshena, Wisconsin. Listed are the philosophy and principles of the school. According to the authors, after the first year, the students, teachers and community had favorable attitudes toward the curriculum, and the teachers felt positive toward one another. The article states that during the school's second year, most of the internal problems faced during the first year had been resolved and that the Indian staff was "working on some of the most innovative and exciting curricula and methods being used in the United States." - LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL
SERVICES FOR INDIANS
Daniel M. Rosenfelt [pp. 4-8]
Presents a discussion on both federal and state responsibilities in Indian education. According to the article, while the federal government has no legal obligation to provide educational services to Native Americans, the United States did agree in many treaties, to provide teachers and other educational services. The author cites that, unlike the federal government, the state governments do have an obligation to provide public education for Indians. - TEACHER PERCEPTION OF STEREOTYPES
Maria Falkenhagen; Inga K. Kelly [pp. 9-13]
A study to determine teachers' viewpoints on Native American stereotypes in books for the young, what guidelines the teachers would set on selecting juvenile literature. The study also compares its findings with current research and tries to determine criteria for book selection in this area. The article discusses teacher response and research findings, dress, living conditions, customs, and evaluation criteria. Included in the article is an eight-item list of the criteria the authors hoped would assist educators in an evaluation of fictional literature about Native Americans for the elementary classroom. - A READING IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY
Robert D. Alley; Ronald G. Davison; Walter T. Kelly; Raymond L. Kimble [pp. 14-20]
An article discussing the Title I (ESEA) reading improvement project which was initiated at the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma during the spring of the 1970-71 school year. According to the article, the instructional program utilized a full-time reading teacher and teacher aide. The authors conclude that, in general, the techniques utilized in the comprehensive instructional program resulted in "significant" achievement gains. - SELF-DETERMINATION AND INDIAN EDUCATION
David Adams [pp. 21-27]
This article discusses the idea of self-determination in Indian education. It gives the definition of self-determination, the role of "Anglos" in Indian education and gives examples of self-determination in action today. The article cites the Rough Rock Demonstration School as a model of self-determination in action. The author believes that, given the success of Rough Rock and similar experiments in self-determination, it would be reasonable to expect new isolated examples of "Indianization" as forthcoming in the future.
- AN ALTERNATIVE TO FAILURE
- Issue 3 May 1974
- TWENTY SECONDS OF PAIN
Billy Mills [pp. 1-8]
Edited excerpts from the keynote address at the 15th Annual Indian Education Conference, sponsored by the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University. Mr. Mills is an Oglala Sioux and 10,000 meter Gold Medal winner in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. - INDIAN CHILDREN IN WHITE WESTERN WISCONSIN SCHOOLS: THE
RACIAL ABYSS
James R. Parker; Martin Zanger [pp. 9-15]
An essay describing the authors' insights gained from the Bluewing Tutorial Project (1973) which the authors believe was successful in dealing with (1) the stereotypical "concern" a teacher may have for "Indian" children, (2) objectivity and neutrality teachers may have toward a child. Several example cases are given. The authors conclude that solutions to stereotyping, as many teachers lack the sensitivity to deal with the problems effectively, must come from the tribal community. - COGNITIVE AND PERSONALITY TESTING
USE AND ABUSE
Joseph N. Cress [pp. 16-19]
An investigation of the practicality and reliability of cross-cultural cognitive testing. It is concluded that the cognitive potential of members of one cultural milieu cannot be assessed accurately by the tests designed for another culture. Cognitive tests may be seen as accurate predictors of academic success within the dominant culture. - THE TEACHING OF INDIAN AND NON-INDIAN
COMMUNICATION: A CURRICULAR INNOVATION
Lynn R. Osborn [pp. 20-26]
An introduction to the teaching of Indian and non-Indian communication. The author believes that direct confrontation with another society is the best way to learn about alien modes of life or to gain perspective of one's own culture, and has designed a course to identify and partially resolve some of the problems of communication between Indian and non-Indian people. The course is divided into five sections: (1) lectures and audiovisual presentations, (2) group task force projects, (3) individual projects, (4) field trips, and (5) written examinations. - INCREASING THE COLLEGE SUCCESS OF
ALASKA NATIVES
J. S. Kleinfeld; K. S. Kohout [pp. 27-31]
A review of the Special Services Program which was established at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks to provide counseling and student assistance services for Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut students. The purpose of this study was to examine any changes in the college success of Alaska Native students that may have resulted from this Special Services Program. The authors conclude the success of Alaska Natives at the University markedly increased for Natives with low and medium levels of academic preparation as a result of the Special Services Program. - SELF-CONFIDENCE OF SELECTED INDIAN
STUDENTS
James C. Martin [pp. 32-34]
A study examining four measures of self-confidence, i.e., artistic-intellectual, realistic-masculine, social-conventional, enterprising, in 144 elementary and junior high Indian students from a BIA boarding school in Oklahoma. The author concludes a student's number of years enrolled in school (not grade level) give a better indication of a proposed relationship between school-related variable and self-confidence.
- New Journal
- TWENTY SECONDS OF PAIN
* Page numbers refer to location in the original published version of the article.
