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Publication Date: 2000
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Being There: The Importance of a Field Experience in Teaching Native American Literature.
Rosenberg, Roberta
Studies in American Indian Literatures, v12 n2 p38-60 Sum 2000
A Native American literature professor's account of college students' cross-cultural field experience on two Indian reservations near the Grand Canyon shows how the experience enhanced student understanding of the Native American belief in the people and land as one, storytelling and a sense of the sacred, and the history and impact of discrimination. (Contains 27 references.) (TD)
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, College Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Educational Experience, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, Oral Tradition, Perspective Taking, School Community Relationship, Spirituality, Story Telling, Student Experience, World Views
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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