Volume 17 1977 Contents
- Issue 1 October 1977
- ESTABLISHING BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
PROJECT PAIUTE
Evalyne Titus Dearmin [pp. 1-10]
An essay examining the PAIUTE project which was designed as a cultural preservation effort of a remote Paiute community in northern Nevada in 1975. The project was threefold: (1) the development of a bilingual/bicultural reading text for Paiute students, (2) conducting in-service training in Native American education, (3) preparation of a pilot bilingual curriculum. The author relates that more than half the time of Project PAIUTE was spent attempting to define a code which accommodated the dialects of the four teacher aides involved in the project. The author hopes a full scale linguistic project will be initiated in the future. * - SACRED CIRCLES
[No Author] [pp. 11-13]
An article describing the opening of Sacred Circles: 2000 Years of North American Indian Art at the Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City in April 1977. According to the article, 850 objects were on loan from 90 museums and private collections in six countries. Objects included in Sacred Circles were dated from 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1800s. - AN EXPERIMENT WITH THREE MODES OF
INSTRUCTION FOR INDIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Rosemarie McCartin; William J. Schill [pp. 14-20]
A study reviewing elementary Indian students' ability to learn through the use of (1) visual and (2) oral cues in preference to the (3) written test. The article explores the concepts and methods used in the study as well as experimental controls, evaluation instrument and treatment of data. According to the study, the authors conclude they cannot say, with any degree of certitude, that some trend existed to prove visual and oral instruction worked better with Indian children than textual instruction. - CULTURAL EFFECTS IN INDIAN EDUCATION:
AN APPLICATION OF SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
Carl R. Cooley [pp. 21-27]
A study reviewing the basic principles of social learning theory and relating them to the effects of early modeling, cultural traditions and customs on the ways in which Indian youth accept or reject education. The author believes (1) it is wrong for us to assume Indian children are "culturally" disadvantaged, (2) there are no "universal" Indian values, and (3) as language structures thought and attitude, the type of language used is extremely important (the language of the American Indian is generally not as verbal as the Anglo). - NATIVE EDUCATION: SEARCHING FOR ALTERNATIVES
R. N. (Bob) Arkell [pp. 28-30]
An essay addressing the pervading sense of pessimism of native education researchers. The author believes there is only reason for optimism when considering the vast amounts of energy expanded in the area of native education. According to the essay, intervention strategies require changes in one or more of the following areas: (1) school structure, (2) instruction, (3) people (i.e., school administrators, teachers, parents, students).
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- ESTABLISHING BILINGUAL EDUCATION:
PROJECT PAIUTE
- Issue 2 January 1978
- NON-INDIANS IN INDIAN SCHOOLS
James A. Mahan; Mary F. Smith [pp. 1-6]
A description of a reservation student teaching project in which 150 non-Indian student teachers from a Midwestern university were placed for 17 weeks in Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools, public schools, and Indian controlled schools serving Navajo, Hopi, and Cherokee youth. The article treats motives for participation, necessity of professional attitudes and screening procedures. The authors conclude that placements on reservations should be the result of extensive deliberation on the part of all involved. - PEER LEARNING AMONG INDIAN STUDENTS:
EXTENDING COUNSELOR INFLUENCE INTO THE CLASSROOM
George W. Cardell, William C. Cross; W. James Lutz [pp. 7-12]
A study designed to determine what effect peer learning among Indian children has with regard to: (1) learning of mathematical skills, (2) development of student attitudes toward mathematics, and (3) satisfaction reactions or attitudes with the interactive process of peer learning itself. The sample examined was comprised of two intact sixth grade mathematics classes of Mescalero Elementary School numbering 17 and 18 students each. The authors believe the study provided evidence that the partner learning process significantly and positively affected performance in the cognitive domain of mathematical skills of the sample group. - ARTS AND CRAFTS, CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT:
TRIPLE TREAT IN PHOENIX
[No Author] [pp. 13-14]
An essay on the 10th anniversary show of the Heard Museum Guild's Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibition which opened in Phoenix in late November 1977. According to the essay, the exhibition was the forerunner for a "triple-treat" during the holidays for Arizona's tourist trade, together with the December exhibit on "Survival: Life and Art of the Alaskan Eskimo" and the January exhibit on "Kachinas: An Evolving Hopi Art Form?" - NATIVE AMERICANS IN U.S. HISTORY TEXTBOOKS:
FROM BLOODY SAVAGES TO HEROIC CHIEFS
Jesus Garcia [pp. 15-19]
A review of a study designed to determine whether themes Helen L. Harris identified as being employed to depict Native Americans in American literature were also used in U.S. history texts. The approach was to examine the treatment of Native Americans in five California-adopted, eighth grade U.S. history textbooks to decide whether Indians were described in a variety of topics and issues, and whether terms employed to describe them went beyond stereotypic phrases. According to the author, of the 1,900 statements examined, all depictions of Native Americans were limited to the themes outlined by Harris, while other approaches and themes were only superficially undertaken. - WHITE STEREOTYPES OF INDIANS
Tim Shaughnessy [pp. 20-24]
An article excerpted from a dissertation entitled "The Attitudes of Selected Educational Groups in Arizona Toward Indians" by the author. In the excerpt, stereotypes as "beliefs," the concept of ethnic stereotype, attributes which underlie stereotypes, and Indian self-determination are discussed. The author includes a 10-item list of stereotypical points of view with which Indians are often labeled. - FOR AMERICAN INDIAN SCHOOLS: A CURRICULUM
MODEL
Donald K. Sharpes [pp. 25-27]
An article examining the two-fold problem in curriculum development: (1) to identify with and be distinctly American Indian, and (2) to become educated to cope with the modern world. The included curriculum outlines are: Energy and Matter, Language and Culture, Spirit and Life, Law and Economics, and Physical Development and Health. Also included is a typical unit of instruction.
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- NON-INDIANS IN INDIAN SCHOOLS
- Issue 3 May 1978
- ALASKAN ESKIMO MUSIC IS REVITALIZED
Thomas F. Johnston [pp. 1-7]
An article which examines traditional Eskimo music as a learned social phenomenon including: (1) psychological associations which are elusive to temperate zone peoples, (2) music's dependency upon language, (3) Eskimo music in the schools which can counter the desultory effects of culture shock, (4) the movement of Eskimo musical heritage into the classroom, (5) Eskimo music's role in defining ethnic identity. - AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF
NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL STUDIES
Frederick D. Smith [pp. 8-12]
An attempt to place some of the Native American cultural studies programs in an anthropological perspective. The study is primarily concerned with two concepts: (1) Indian studies programs as revitalization movements, and (2) the extent to which revitalization movements were initiated from outside the Native American community. According to the study, the author believes there is considerable doubt that the educational programs can be viewed by themselves as revitalization movements and doubts that the Anglo involvement in the overall movement was sufficient to consider it to be initiated from outside Native American societies. - IN THE GARDENS OF POPELOUTCHOM
Margo Angel Man [pp. 13-18]
The record of an oral, and at times romantic, account of the Popeloutchom (meaning "The Westerners") garden-world which was described as a "place of beauty and constant delight where work was unnecessary" as told by a single surviving full-blood member of the tribe, Ascencion Solorsano, who died in January, 1930. Included is the name and California address of a Native American whose ancestors were the Westerners depicted in the article and who also has access to further personal testimonials and documents. - ADVISOR TEAMING
Wayne Winterton [pp. 19-25]
A review of the advisor teaming effort adapted from the advisor-advisee concept of I/D/E/A's individually guided education program. The Advisor Teaming program began in 1977 and, according to the author, deserved attention because of (1) the surprisingly minimal degree of resistance encountered in staff acceptance of the concept and (2) the observable positive effects advisor teaming had on students and staff at the conclusion of the first semester of implementation. Included are the specific goals of the project.
- ALASKAN ESKIMO MUSIC IS REVITALIZED
* Page numbers refer to location in the original published version of the article.
