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Szeto, Elson – Management in Education, 2014
This article presents a principal's story of social justice practice in a Hong Kong primary school. The narration accounts for the notion of social justice through his practice in various ways. Studying in a "rooftop" primary school located in a public housing area in Hong Kong was the principal's salient memory of his first year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Principals, Personal Narratives
Weewish Tree, 1979
Photograph and short description of Wendell Chino, leader and spokesman of the Mescalero Apache Indian Nation of New Mexico. (DS)
Descriptors: Adults, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Biographies
Lee, Betsy – 1979
Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman was a product of two worlds--the Indian and the White. A member of the Santee Sioux Tribe, he was respected and admired in both of these worlds for the work he did on behalf of American Indians, first as a young doctor caring for the sick on the Reservation, and later as a writer and speaker, showing the richness of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Cunningham, Maggi – 1979
Born in 1767, Black Hawk was the last great war leader of the Sauk Indians, who lived in the Rock River valley in Illinois. By age 25, he was a famed warrior and leader of his people who raided neighboring tribes until a period of peace and prosperity began about 1800. Various treaties of which the Sauk knew and understood very little deprived the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Biographies
Schraff, Anne – 1979
Tecumseh, famed for his skills as an orator, warrior, military strategist, and leader of his Shawnee people, has been called one of the great American leaders. In 1812 he assembled 3,000 warriors from 32 American Indian tribes in an effort to save the Indian lands from the onslaught of the white soldiers and settlers. It was the largest Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Biographies, Childrens Literature