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Kegg, Maude; Nichols, John D., Ed. – 1991
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Chippewa) elder Maude Kegg relates stories of her childhood nearly 90 years ago on the Mille Lacs Reservation in central Minnesota. The Nonremoval Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa to which she belonged accommodated their way of life to altered land and new neighbors, but retained their rich religious and social life. Traditional…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Studies, Children, Chippewa (Tribe)
Peer reviewedHolm, Wayne – Journal of Navajo Education, 1996
Highlights the lifelong work of linguists Robert W. Young and William Morgan in developing written Navajo. In contrast to technical orthographies, Young and Morgan developed a practical orthography that took advantage of native speakers' implicit knowledge and opened up possibilities for producing materials in written Navajo. Young and Morgan also…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Dictionaries, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textBathurst, Effie G. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
To promote inter-American understanding, a number of public-school systems, teacher-preparing institutions, State and county education departments, and the U. S. Office of Education recently cooperated in a series of experimental or demonstration centers. This bulletin describes the work carried on by 22 of these centers aided by a grant from the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Public Schools, Schools of Education, Demonstration Centers
Peer reviewedKottman, Karl – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1999
Highlights the history of Californian (Luiseno), the native language of Baja California, including how the language was recorded by a young Mexican student at the Vatican's missionary school, the Collegium Urbanum in Rome. Discusses the political impact of the grammatical recording and subsequent translation of the language during the mid-19th…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries
Turnbull, William W. – 1979
Reflections on past and future uses of intelligence tests are presented. Three current approaches to intelligence tests are described: (1) neural efficiency, which relates the speed or quality of functioning of the neural system to test results; (2) information processing--cognitive micro-processes used in solving test items; and (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Alderman, L. R. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1928
The instruction of both native and foreign-born persons in the essentials of the English language, numbers, civics, geography, and history is an important task. The United States Bureau of the Census reports that in 1920, nearly 5,000,000 of our population over 10 years of age could not write in any language. The number who need instruction in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Illiteracy, Adult Literacy, English
