The California Indian Education Center Directors Association website has been updated. It now has the Call to Conference pdf file to download for the 33rd Annual Conference of California Indian Education. Additionally there is a new page devoted to Links and Resources. To visit, just click on the links below or paste the URLs into your browser.
CIEDA www.cieda.org
Call to Conference:
The Native Transformational Education Center (NTEC) promotes Tribal community’s self-determination by supporting efforts to increase educational achievement of all students. NTEC is a program of the Klamath River Early College of the Redwoods, a community-based, public charter high school and a partnership of the Yurok Tribe and College of the Redwoods’ community college. Complete information at: http://www.klamathriverschool.org/NTEC.html
By Richard B. Williams
Many years ago I started a personal research project on what it meant to “Think Indian” or more specifically “Think Lakota or Cheyenne.” I was working with learning-challenged students at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the University Learning Center. I was also working with American Indian students at various academic levels and saw the unique cognitive challenges they were having in mainstream academia. All of these students were very intelligent and scored high enough on the ACT to be admitted to the University of Colorado, but were challenged by the academic methodology and pedagogy. Full story at: http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/63873117.html
Kishan Lara, PhD in education First in her tribe to earn a doctorate. Having grown up in a Native American community where “research” was a dirty word, Kishan Lara had seen the plundering of her ancestors’ burial sites and the insensitive probing by researchers, archaeologists and university students. She was the last person who expected to study her own people, the Hupa/Yurok tribes of northern California.
Full Story At: http://asunews.asu.edu/20090515_Profile_Lara
Brief History on the Creation of a National American Indian Heritage Month
Many Indian and non-Indian Americans have urged that a special day be set aside to honor American Indians. Legislation has been proposed in the Congress that would “designate the fourth Friday in September of every year as American Indian Day.” There has also been legislation proposing to establish a “Native American Awareness Week” during the fourth week in September. Now, the President signs a proclamation designating the month of November as “National American Indian Heritage Month. Complete article at: http://www.doi.gov/bia/na-month.pdf
For additional information please see:
Celebrating Tribal Nations: http://www.loc.gov/topics/nativeamericans/
National Native American Heritage Month Posters:http://www.usgs.gov/indian/posters/index.html
Celebrate History & Heritage: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/aihm/index.html
National Museum of the American Indian: http://americanindian.si.edu/heritagemonth/
The 33rd Annual California Conference on American Indian Education for 2010 is being held March 25-27 in Santa Clara. The theme is "Saving Our Language-Saving Our Culture.”
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BIDDEFORD, Maine – The University of New England celebrated Donna Loring, a writer, educator, activist and the Penobscot Indian Nation’s former representative in the Maine legislature in early October with the first of a lecture series in her name and a conference about teaching Wabanaki history in Maine’s public schoo
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When his mother took senior Paul Ganas to his very first powwow as a toddler, she said he immediately got involved, dancing and swaying to the beat of the drums. Now that he's older, Ganas, 25, is involved with American Indian culture in a more intimate way - learning to speak Ojibwe and teaching it to others, in turn breathing new life into an endangered language.
Full Article at: http://tinyurl.com/ygwgfma
Watch Archived Classes at: http://www.uwec.edu/ais/ojibwe.htm