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Download full textTaylor, Benjamin J.; O'Connor, Dennis J. – 1969
Fort Apache Indians live in relative geographic and cultural isolation. The Apaches are younger than the general population, have a lower rate of overall labor-force participation, and typically work for the Federal Government or in trbal enterprises. A median family with 5 children subsists on a median annual family income of less than $1,000.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Isolation, Economic Climate, Educational Background
Peer reviewedTrujillo, Octaviana V. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1998
Reviews the history of the Yaqui, first in Mexico, and then in Guadalupe (Arizona). Discusses the use of Yaqui, Spanish, and English within the community; community legal action against the school district over disproportionate special-education placements; resistance to school desegregation; a trilingual community school; and internal and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Community Schools
Chilcott, John H. – 1983
It is within the sphere of their socioreligious domain that Arizona Yaquis have been able to survive as a cultural group. Yet this domain, consisting of the two realms of the profane (good versus evil), and the sacred enchanted world of "huya ania," exists apart from the external world of a modern industrial society. The school, because…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Change Strategies
