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Visibility, Healing and Resistance: Voices from the 2005 Dena'ina Language Institute
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Bell, Lindsay; Marlow, Patrick E. – Journal of American Indian Education, 2009
This paper explores the complexities of institutional involvement in Native language programming by looking at a program in Kenai, Alaska. The work contrasts learner goals with stated grant goals in order to investigate the tensions between institutional (university, funding agency) and individual learner goals in a language revitalization effort.…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Interviews, Objectives
Native American Education Research and Policy Development in an Era of No Child Left Behind: Native Language and Culture during the Administrations of Presidents Clinton and Bush
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Beaulieu, David – Journal of American Indian Education, 2008
This article traces the history of policy development in Native American education from the second term of President William J. Clinton and his signing of Executive Order 13096 of August 6, 1998 on American Indian/Alaska Native education, through the passage and implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and initial consideration of its…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, American Indians, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education
Developing English Language Software for Athabaskan Students.
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McCurry, Niki; Kleinfeld, Judith – Journal of American Indian Education, 1986
Presents model for developing localized district computer software targeted to Native American students from particular language communities. Describes process through which Yukon/Koyukuk School District developed computer software for Athabaskan students. Emphasizes software as one tool in teacher-directed language arts program, not replacement…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages