TRIBAL COLLEGES, NATIVE STUDIES
PROGRAMS, and INDIAN
EDUCATION
Last update -September 16, 2008.
Maintained by
Lisa Mitten
Native Education Organizations
Tribal Colleges
Indian / Native Studies Departments
Indian Student Organizations
K-12 Indian Schools and Organizations
General Indian Education Resources
List of all Native American and Canadian Indian tribes, nations, and groups, recognized or otherwise
NATIVE EDUCATION ORGANIZATIONS
TRIBAL COLLEGES
Tribal
Colleges : An Introduction - a 1999 report issued by AIHEC and
the Institute for Higher Education Policy. This press release provides a
link to the full report (requires Adobe Acrobat) Updated 1/22/06
INDIAN / NATIVE STUDIES DEPARTMENTS
Indian Student Organizations
K-12 Indian Schools and Students
General Indian Education Resources
- Aboriginal
Education (from the Ministry of Education in British Columbia)
Updated 2/13/99
- Alaska Native Knowledge
Network - excellent resources on indigenous education. Added 6/5/02
- Alaskool Central - "online materials
about Alaska Native history, education, languages, and cultures" - Added 10/1/04
-
Alcatraz Is Not an Island Teacher's Guide - to accompany the 2002 PBS documentary on
the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native activists Added 12/7/02
The American Indian in
Graduate Studies Database - comprehensive web-based electronic access to the single
largest source of scholarship and primary information about American Indians,
almost 14,000 theses and dissertations. Added 9/16/08
- American
Indian Sports Team Mascots
Added 2/20/98; updated 1/22/06
- American
Indians and the Natural World - teaching material accompanying
Carnegie Museum of Natural History's new Alcoa Hall of American Indians in
Pittsburgh. Added 11/29/99; updated 7/01/08
- Appropriate Methods When Teaching
About Native American Peoples Added 7/01/96; updated 1/22/06
- Books -
Scholastic, a major publisher of children's books, recently released two
books about Native Americans in their best-selling "Dear America" series
of historical fiction diaries. The first, My Heart is On the Ground :
The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, by Ann Rinaldi, is set at Carlisle
Indian School in 1880. The second, The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow :
The Diary of Sarah Nita, written by Ann Turner, takes place during the
Navajo Long Walk. Both are drawing fire for the serious factual errors and
cultural misrepresentations of these events. This web site has critical
reviews of the books written by Native educators. Added
5/4/99; updated 7/01/08
- Canku Ota (Many
Paths) - formerly Turtle Tracks,
a newsletter for kids from a Native American view. Lots of great stuff
here for schools! Added 4/6/99; updated 1/24/00
- "Chiefs" -
the PBS Independent Lens film on the Arapaho boys basketball team at Wind River Indian High
School. Added 4/26/03
- Children's
Books with Native North American History, Themes, and Characters -
from Muskogee Creek children's author Cynthia L. Smith - Added
11/9/98; updated 1/22/06
- College
Guide for American Indians, a goldmine of information from
Winds
of Change magazine. Added 8/20/99; updated 1/22/06
- The Cradleboard
Teaching Project
- a program linking Native and non-Native schools and providing
curriculum information for grades 3-12, founded by Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Added 8/19/97; updated 7/19/99
- A
Critical Bibliography on North American Indians, For K-12 - from the
Anthropology
Outreach Office of the Smithsonian Institution. Added
3/21/99; updated 7/01/08
- Culturally-Based Curriculum Resources -
from the Alaska Native Knowledge
Network Added 9/6/99; updated 7/01/08
- "Examining
Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom: Possibilities
and Pitfalls" - an article from the journal ECRP - Early Childhood Research & Practice
Added 6/5/02
- First
Americans for Grade Schoolers - EXCELLENT site from a Stanford
education student. Added 9/3/99; updated 9/23/99
- First Nations Histories
- excellent historical & cultureal overviews for a couple dozen tribes.
A good source for student papers! Added 8/3/99; ;updated 4/7/02
- 4Directions -
An Indigenous Model of Education - form the Laguna Pueblo Department
of Education Added 7/9/98
- The Great Peace CD-ROM
- an extensive resource for schools on Iroquois history and culture, from
Tuscarora artist Raymond Skye Added 2/9/99; updated 11/12/99
- Home
Pages for Individual Native Americans - including K-12 schools and
college students. Added 1/8/99
- Homework Help
on the
Iroquois Nations - a team of Haudenosaunee who have volunteered their
time to answer questions. Added 4/10/00
- "I" is NOT
for Indians : The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young
People, from the American Indian Library Association.Added
12/14/95
-
"I" is for Inclusion: The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young People - a 2007 update to "I" is
NOT for Indian, from the American Indian Library Association. Added 7/01/08
- If I Can Read, I Can
Do Anything - a national reading club for Native American students. Added
10/14/99; updated 1/22/06
-
Indian
Education - a selection of FULL TEXT resources from the University
of Southern California's School of Education. Added 4/2/98
- Indian
Scientists - The SACNAS Biography Project - a project by the Society
for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Added 5/21/98; updated 7/01/08
- Kids' Stop - information and
resources on Canadian First Nations for Native and non-Native students and their teachers,
from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Added 12/3/99; updated 7/01/08
- Languages -
a collection of links to web pages for learning Native American
languages Added 5/20/98
- Native
American Authors - from the Internet
Public Library Added 1/8/99; updated 7/01/08
- Native
American Children's Literature in the Classroom - An Annotated Bibliography - from
American Indian Library Association member Joan Berman.
Added 6/30/01; updated 7/01/08
- Native American Geometry
Added 11/9/98; updated 1/31/06
-
Native American Voices - digital history . Added 8/3/03
- A Native
Bridge to WebJunction - "WebJunction is an online community of libraries and other agencies sharing
knowledge and experience to provide the broadest public access to information
technology. The mission of the Native bridge to WebJunction.org is to provide an
interface to WebJunction content tailored for Native users." Added 5/27/04
- NativeTech - Native American
Technology and Art - a
SUPER web page devoted to traditional technologies, arts, and crafts -
everything you need to finish that school paper!Added 3/28/00
- Navajo Spaceships, Star
Mountain and Rez Memories - an online writing journal of prose &
poetry by John Rustywire, Navajo. Added 10/18/99
- Oyate - "a
Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are
honestly portrayed, and so that all people will know our stories belong to
us."... And an EXCELLENT source for books for kids Added
11/16/98
- Peace
4 Turtle Island - a site for kids about the Iroquois nations by
Iroquois people. Lots of good info here for schoolkids needing to learn
about the Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, and Cayuga. Added
4/10/00
- Peace Party -
resources for teachers from Blue Corn Comics. Added 6/9/01
- Presentations
and Performers - here are links to native artists and arts
organizations that might be available for classroom presentations and
teaching. Added 2/28/98
- Rethinking Schools -
excellent resource for teachers, featuring special issues and articles on Native topics such as
the groundbreaking special issue
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years Added 6/5/02; updated 1/31/06
- Scenes
from the Eastern Woodlands - a virtual tour of Algonkian life
in New England c.1550. Added 3/28/00
- The Sociolinguistics
of the "S- word" : Squaw in American Placenames - a linguistic perspective from William
Bright. Added 6/5/02
- Squaw - an obscene
insult? - from The Straight Dope, a succinct and intelligent
examination of the issue. Added 6/9/00
- Stereotypes
of Native Americans Added 5/26/98; updated 7/19/99
- Storytellers - Native
American Authors Online Added 1/8/99; updated 7/01/08
- TCJ - Tribal
College Journal of American Indian Higher Education Added 10/9/96; updated 7/01/08
- Teaching
and
Learning with Native Americans - A Handbook for Non-Native American
Adult Educators - Compiled by Marilou Schultz and Miriam Kroeger
from the Four Winds Walk in Balance on Mother Earth Curriculm Guide
for the Arizona Adult Literacy and Technology Resource Center, Inc.
Added 7/1/99; updated 7/3/00
- Techniques for
Evaluating American Indian Web Sites - everyone in education ought
to look at this one! Added 5/20/98
- Trail of Tears and
Young Cherokee
- two playscripts about Cherokee history, appropriate for K-12 students.
Added 3/20/00
- Windspeaker's
"Classroom Edition" - a great resource for teachers from the Canadian
newspaper. Added 6/18/99
- Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers
Added 5/4/99; updated 7/01/08
- Yahoo!'s
list
of Native American Education sites Added 2/5/97; updated 2/13/99
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