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West Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2014
The West Comprehensive Center (WCC) is working with the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), the Nevada Department of Education (NDE), and the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) to assist districts and schools that are implementing activities to improve outcomes for Indian students. As a first step, WCC staff reviewed state and national law,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, State Legislation, Federal Legislation, Laws
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Matsui, Kenichi – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2011
As of December 2010, the US Congress had enacted more than twenty major community-specific Native water-rights settlements, and the state of Arizona had more of these settlements (eight) than any other US state. This unique situation has invited voluminous studies on Arizona's Native water-rights settlements. Although these studies have clarified…
Descriptors: Water, American Indians, Federal Government, United States History
Hall, Thomas D. – 1982
The varying results of incorporation on the survival of groups such as bands, tribes, chiefdoms and mercantile states can be explained by applying the historical process to the American conquest of the Southwest. The American Southwest (the region covered by Arizona, New Mexico, parts of Texas, California, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado) was occupied…
Descriptors: American Indians, Ecological Factors, Ethnic Relations, Hispanic Americans
Bronson, Leisa – Wassaja, The Indian Historian, 1980
A capsule history of the Yavapai tribe describes their origin myth; early life-style; increasing involvement with Apaches; leaders; response to White settlers; and resistance and ultimate capitulation to reservation life. The article details the horrors and aftermath of the 1875 forced march from the Verde Reservation to San Carlos. (SB)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Federal Indian Relationship
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1973
Briefly describing each tribe within Arizona's four major American Indian groups, this handbook presents information relative to the cultural background and socioeconomic development of the following tribes: (1) Athapascan Tribes (Navajos and Apaches); (2) Pueblo Indians (Hopis); (3) Desert Rancheria Tribes (Pimas, Yumas, Papagos, Maricopas,…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Washington, Bryce; And Others – 1977
In theory Arizona Indian tribes can be represented by five major cultural groups: Athapascan, Pueblo, Yuman, Plateau Rancheria, and Desert Rancheria tribes. Each of these tribes has its own distinctive way of life or culture. They do not want to lose their cultural identity, nor do they want to become "like Anglos". They "do"…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background