Tag: Culture
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Via Slate.com: Do American Indian Students Perform Better When They Have American Indian Teachers?
HAYS-LODGE POLE, Montana—When Aloha Shortman asked her sixth-graders to find Italy on a world map during a social studies lesson last August, they couldn’t do it. One student’s finger landed on Brazil. Others grew bored and restless. Shortman quickly shifted gears, searching for a way to make a lesson on the Roman Republic relevant to…
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Via IndianCountryToday.com: Houska: Native American Hair is a Religious Right
An excerpt: Graduation season. Lately my newsfeed has been a steady stream of smiling Native graduates, clad in beaded mortarboards, eagle feathers, and the beautiful adornments of their cultures. But with the season has also come a litany of stories involving students fighting their schools and administrators for the right to wear the sacred objects…
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LRI: WA State Passes Bill to Mandate Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum to be Taught in Public Schools
From Last Real Indians, here. An excerpt: The Washington State legislature has passed Senate Bill 5433, which will require the teaching of Northwest tribal history, culture, and government in Washington State’s common schools. Washington SB 5433 was an amendment to the 2005 House Bill 1495. When it was passed, H.B. 1495 only “encouraged” Washington State…
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Guest Post from TEDNA Board Member Kerry Venegas on California AB 163 and Teacher Credentialling
Kerry Venegas is the Director of the Tribal Education Department for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and is providing an update on California AB 163, which expands Native teaching credential authorization for Tribes that passed as AB 544 in 2009. AB 163 is still in the legislative process, but doesn’t seem to have any major roadblocks. Even…
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Story Corps (opportunity)
From Native News Network, here. StoryCorps, in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, is accepting applications from public libraries and library systems interested in hosting StoryCorps @ your library programs. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), StoryCorps @ your library will bring StoryCorps’ popular interview methods to libraries while developing a replicable…