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Smiley, Richard; Sather, Susan – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2009
In this comprehensive effort to study Indian education policies, the report categorizes the policies of five Northwest Region states based on 13 key policies identified in the literature and describes the legal methods used to adopt them, such as statutes, regulations, and executive orders. The study found that six of the key policies had been…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Advisory Committees
Pember, Mary Annette – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
For American Indian scholars, securing a job in higher education can sometimes be as simple as checking a box. Most of the country's colleges and universities do not require proof of tribal enrollment from faculty or staff who identify themselves as American Indians. Students looking to receive financial aid, however, must submit proof that they…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethnic Groups, American Indians, Alaska Natives
Bristol, Tom – Native Americas, 1996
Kake Tribal Corporation's purchase of a seafood cold storage facility in southeast Alaska is an example of the growing economic clout of Alaska's tribal corporations. However, many claim that the pro-development forces of corporations are weakening the subsistence economy and culture of Alaska Natives. Conflicts involve Native hunting and fishing…
Descriptors: Activism, Alaska Natives, Conservation (Environment), Corporations
Caldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
Merculieff, Ilarion – Winds of Change, 1996
An Aleut community leader from the Pribilof Islands (Alaska) reflects on what he learned from the economic crisis that threatened the viability of his community during the 1980s. He suggests that the spiritual healing of the individual is central to the healing of the whole community, elimination of conflict, and fulfillment of any vision for the…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Community Change, Community Involvement, Community Leaders
Lipka, Jerry; Willer, Cristy – 1985
Written with the broad goal of involving high school students in Bristol Bay, Alaska, in the planning and design of their region's future, this combined teacher guide and student text contains the third and fourth units of a seven-unit curriculum. Unit III covers the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the complicated issues…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Business
Lipka, Jerry; Willer, Cristy – 1985
This combined teacher guide and student text is written with the broad goal of involving high school students in Bristol Bay, Alaska, in the planning and design of their region's future. Unit I introduces changes occurring on village and regional levels, discusses planning strategies for community development, and presents village profiles for…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Business