Native Education Resources for the Southwest Region
Periodicals and Publications
It would be impossible to name all the worthwhile periodicals and publications pertinent to the education of American Indian students, but this section gives a flavor for the wide variety of journals, student reading materials, reviews, and other items that are available. This section ends with a list of 15 publishers and distributors which offer not only books, curriculum materials, and other publications, but also audiotapes, videos, and other audio-visual materials.
Periodicals
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Duane
Champagne, Ph.D., Editor
American Indian Studies Center
3220 Campbell Hall, Box 951548
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1548
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/indian/
aisc@usla.edu
(310) 825-7315 / Fax: (310) 206-7060
The American Indian Culture and Research Journal is a scholarly quarterly providing an interdisciplinary forum for the advancement of knowledge about American Indians.
Bilingual Research Journal
James
J. Lyons, Executive Director
National Association for Bilingual Education
1220 L Street, NW, Suite 605
Washington, DC 20005-4081
http://www.nabe.org/
nabe@nabe.org
(202) 898-1829 / Fax: (202) 789-2866
Many articles about American Indian languages have appeared in Bilingual Research Journal. In particular, the Winter 1995 issue (Volume 19, Number 2) was a special issue devoted entirely to indigenous languages.
Great Promise for Young American Indians
David
Pego, Chairman or Vincent Bland, Director
Great Promise
1103 Hatteras
Austin, TX 78753-2063
V_bland@yahoo.com
(512) 459-6325 / Fax: (512) 452-1058
Great Promise is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 by three delegates to the White House Conference on Indian Education and two associates. Its mission is to improve educational and cultural opportunities for American Indian children. To respond to the need for culturally relevant materials, Great Promise produces the quarterly magazine Great Promise for Young American Indians, which contains cultural information about various tribes and culturally relevant curriculum. The magazine helps children explore the history of their families and tribes and profiles contemporary American Indian men and women who are successful in various fields. It encourages children to excel academically, and stresses reading, writing, drawing, mathematics, and science. Articles and features in the magazine are aimed mostly at students in grades 5-8 and their teachers and parents. It is hoped that the materials and programs also help those of other races to understand more about American Indians.
Independent American Indian Review
Mimi
McBride, Senior Editor
Independent American Indian Review
4801 S Lakeshore Dr., Suite 202
Tempe, AZ 85282
(602) 839-8355 / Fax: (602) 839-8223
The Independent American Indian Review provides current reviews of multimedia materials (educational and commercial) through a quarterly magazine written from an American Indian perspective. It can be used as a learning tool for any interested individuals or groups; a teaching tool for classroom teachers to add dimension to everyday lesson plans; a selection tool for librarians and curriculum personnel to assist in making purchasing decisions about American Indian/Alaska Native materials for the classroom, library, school district, or organization; or a training tool for other organizations, corporations, and businesses.
Journal of American Indian Education
Octaviana V. Trujillo, Ph.D., Editor
Journal of American Indian Education
Center for Indian Education
College of Education
Arizona State University P.O. Box 871311
Tempe, AZ 85287-1311
http://jaie.asu.edu/
yaqui@asu.edu
(602) 965-6292 / Fax: (602) 965-8115
Published three times a year (fall, winter, and spring), this journal features articles that are directly related to the education of North American Indians and Alaska Natives. Emphasis is placed on basic and applied research. The Center for Indian Education has published the journal since 1961.
Native Monthly Reader
RedSun Institute
P.O. Box 122
Crestone, CO 81131
(719) 256-4848 / Fax: (719) 256-4848
Native Monthly Reader, a scholastic newspaper for grades 5 through 12, reaches more than 5,000 students each month throughout the United States and Canada. Many colleges, museums, libraries, and organizations have found the paper beneficial and of interest to their adult population as well. The reader focuses on Native topics presented in a positive format, highlighting the numerous contributions Native people are making and featuring creative writing, poetry, and works of art expressing Native culture and tradition. RedSun Institute also offers a curriculum supplement entitled Tradition and Environment, which is available for cultural sensitivity training at various educational levels, from secondary to college.
Native Peoples Magazine
Rush
Scott, Director
Native Peoples Education Program
5333 N. 7th St., Suite C-224
Phoenix, AZ 85014
http://www.nativepeoples.com/
Native_Peoples@Amcolor.com
(602) 252-2236 / Fax: (602) 265-3113
This magazine was created to help students of all ages appreciate and enjoy the arts and life ways of Native peoples of the Americas. A teacher's guide to selected articles in the magazine helps students better appreciate the distinctive traditions of Native cultures. Bulk-discounted magazines are available to schools and educational organizations.
Northland Publishing
Northland
Publishing
P.O. Box 1389
Flagstaff, AZ 86002
http://www.northlandpub.com
info@northlandpub.com
(800) 346-3257 / Fax: (800) 257-9082
Founded in 1958, Northland Publishing is an award-winning publisher of trade books for adults and children. Subjects include Native American art, culture, and crafts, Western life and lore, cowboy literature, natural history, cookbooks, and beautifully illustrated books for children. Northland's titles focus heavily on the surrounding tribes of the Southwest region.
Red Ink: A Native Student Publication
American Indian Studies Programs
University of Arizona, Tucson
1615 East Seventh St.
Tucson, AZ 85719
redink@ccit.arizona.edu
(520) 622-3504 / Fax: (520) 791-3735
Red Ink: A Native Student Publication is designed to promote both scholarly and grassroots publishing by and for American Indians and other interested members of the Indian community. Its goal is to provide a journal that is accessible to non-academics, while also providing a forum for serious scholars. An entirely student run entity, it has published contributions by writers and artists representing many tribes. Red Ink also includes articles dealing with contemporary issues, personal essays, photography, and book reviews. Currently, Red Ink operates as part of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona.
Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL)
Robert M. Nelson, Ph.D., Advertising and Subscriptions
Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL)
Box 112
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA 23173
Nelson@urvax.urich.edu
Fax: (804) 289-8313
This journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures is the only scholarly journal in the United States that focuses exclusively on American Indian literatures. Published quarterly, the journal features reviews, interviews, bibliographies, creative work, including transcriptions of performances. The journal contains scholarly, critical, and theoretical articles on any aspect of Native American literatures, including traditional oral material in dual-language format or translation, written works, and live and media performances of verbal art.
Monographs
Characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native education: Results from the 1990-91 and 1993-94 schools and staffing surveys,
(1997), by D. M. Pavel and T. R. Curtin, NCES 97-451.
Summer
D. Whitener
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
U.S. Department of Education
555 New Jersey Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20208-5574
http://www.nces.ed.gov/
or http://www.nces.ed.gov/help/orderinfo.asp
(202) 219-1368
During the 1990-91 and 1993-94 school years, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the U.S. Department of Education added an Indian education supplement to the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) data collection program that enabled education researchers and policymakers to describe the schools, principals, and teachers serving American Indian students. The data collected by SASS are both national in scope and comparable to data gathered concurrently on U.S. schools in general. The NCES report Characteristics of American Indian and Alaska Native Education summarizes the findings of the 1993-94 SASS with regard to schools that serve American Indian and Alaska Native students. It examines trends in Indian education since 1990-91, when the data for the first NCES report on Indian education were collected.
Culturally Responsive Mathematics and Science Education for Native Students (no date), by Sharon Nelson-Barber and Elise Trumbull. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory for Education Research and Development (now WestEd).
Tom
Ross, Information Specialist
WestEd
730 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94107-1242
http://www.wested.org
tross@wested.org
(415) 565-3000 / Fax: (415) 565-3012
This monograph begins by placing mathematics and science education within the context of national reforms and the push for national standards, then questions some of the assumptions that undergird the reform movement. After contrasting the "Western" view of mathematical and scientific knowledge with the "ways of knowing" of other cultures, the authors discuss classroom instruction based on the concepts of ethnomathematics and ethnoscience and give examples that apply to Native students. They advocate culturally responsive pedagogy and the inclusion of Native values in mathematics and science instruction.
Indian Nations At Risk Task Force Commissioned Papers 1-20.
Patricia
Cahape Hammer
ERIC/CRESS
1031 Quarrier Street
P. O. Box 1348
Charleston, WV 25325-1348
http://www.ael.org
aelinfo@ael.org
(800) 624-9120 / (304) 347-0400 / TDD: (304) 347-0448 / Fax:
(304) 347-0487
This set of 20 papers was commissioned by the Indian Nations At Risk Task Force. Each provides a comprehensive overview of a particular topic. Topics include current conditions, demographic trends, early childhood, reading and language arts, language and culture, mathematics and science education, history and social studies, gifted and talented students, disabilities, technology, dropout prevention, parental involvement, funding resources, tribal colleges, adult education, and government responsibilities in the education of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Native Education Directory: Organizations and Resources for Educators of Native Americans (1997).
Patricia
Cahape Hammer
ERIC/CRESS
1031 Quarrier Street
P.O. Box 1348
Charleston, WV 25325-1348
http://www.ael.org/eric/page.cfm?&scope=ai&id=488&pub=x
ericrc@ael.org
(800) 624-9120 / (304) 347-0465 / TDD: (304) 347-0448 / Fax:
(304) 347-0487
This national directory of Native education resources in the U.S. and Canada sorts more than 500 agencies, institutions, and organizations into the following five categories:
1.
Multistate, national, and international nongovernmental organizations
2. Federal programs
3. Media, periodicals, publishers, and producers
4. State and territorial government and nongovernmental organizations
5. Colleges and universities offering Native studies, Native
language instruction, supportive services, or scholarships
Federal programs include those of the BIA, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Professional associations, research and development centers, and youth leadership programs are just some of the organizations which are listed. The directory provides information for contacting each organization followed by a brief descriptions of that organization. It also includes an index.
Native Languages: Policy and Program Considerations (1987) and Native Languages: A Support Document for the Teaching of Native Languages (1989).
Wanda
White, Coordinator
Native Language Instructors' Program
Faculty of Education
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, ON Canada P7B 5E1
wanda.white@lakeheadu.ca
(807) 343-8003 / Fax: (807) 346-7746
The curriculum guide identifies four language skills, presents course goals and objectives, suggests themes and subthemes for organizing course content, and contains many sample activities for teaching a Native language. Its companion, the resource guide, presents an overview of language teaching, covers teaching the four language skills, and discusses the development of resource materials and community support.
Sources of Books, Publications, and Audio-Visuals
Akwe:kon Press
José
Barreiro, Editor
Akwe:kon Press
American Indian Program
Cornell University
300 Caldwell Hall Ithaca, NY 14853
http://www.cornell.edu/
bfw2@cornell.edu
(800) 9NATIVE or (800) 962-8483 / (607) 255-4308 / Fax: (607)
255-0185
Akwe:kon Press, part of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, publishes books and periodicals grounded in Native community experience, knowledge and perspectives. Topics include tribal democracy, indigenous knowledge, health and education, environmental ethics, economic development, and Native traditions. Native Americas is Akwe:kon Press's award-winning journal covering current trends and events that affect Native people throughout the Americas. Coverage of the Western Hemisphere includes the Publick Eye and Hemispheric Digest sections, in-depth features by distinguished writers and scholars, and reviews of current books. Supporting sponsorship for Native Americas allows Akwe:kon Press to offer free one-year subscriptions to Native high school and college students. Akwe:kon (A-gw‡y-gon) is a Mohawk word meaning All Of Us.
Audio-Forum
Audio-Forum
1 Orchard Park Road
Madison CT 06443
Toll-free phone 800-243-1234
Toll-free fax 888-453-4329
E-mail: info@audioforum.com
Web site: www.audioforum.com
Audio-Forum sells audiotapes for learning 14 different Native American languages, including Apache, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Lenape, and Diné (Navajo). Some audiotapes have accompanying booklets, texts, or other print materials. Some feature stories, songs, or hymns. A series of 30-minute videos portrays the history and culture of Apache, Cherokee, Comanche, Lenape, Diné (Navajo), and Seminole communities.
Chariot Distribution
Gail
Matthews
Chariot Distribution
1274 Lambert Circle
Lafayette, CO 80026
http://www.chariotdist.com
cdistribution@qwest.net
(800) 477-5128 / (303) 666-4558 / Fax: (303) 666-5808
The videos in Chariot Distribution's catalog are organized by the following topics: (1)æNative American health and wellness, (2)æNative American history and culture, (3)æNative American teen prevention programs, (4)æmulticultural prevention programs, (5)æAIDS, (6)æeducation for teachers and professionals, and (7)æmaternal and child health.
Cherokee Language and Culture
Prentice
and Willena Robinson, Owner and Manager
Cherokee Language and Culture
4158 E. 48th Place
Tulsa, OK 74135
http://www.powersource.com/cherokee/
(918) 749-3082
Cherokee
Heritage Indian Education Foundation (CHIEF)
2934 E. 76th Place
Tulsa, OK 74136
http://www.chief-ok.org (no longer available 10/2003)
chief@galstar.com
(918) 749-3082
Cherokee history and language are preserved through audio books, cassettes, flash cards, videos, and the written word. This home-based business also distributes videos for the Cherokee Heritage Indian Education Foundation (CHIEF).
Clear Light Publishers
Clear
Light Publishers
823 Don Diego
Santa Fe, NM 87501
(800) 253-2747 / (505) 989-9590 / Fax: (505) 989-9519
Books from Clear Light Publishers address such topics as community development, the environment, pueblo nations, and Indian heroes. A particularly well known book is Exiled in the Land of the Free about democracy, Indian nations, and the U.S. Constitution.
CRC Publishing Co. - Eagle Rock Books
Phyllis Bloom, Publisher
CRC Publishing Co. - Eagle Rock Books
P. O. Box 22583
Kansas City, MO 64113-2583
http://www.crcpub.com
crcpub@crn.org
(800) 268-2059
CRC Publishing Co.-Eagle Rock Books publishes six fundraising guides for Native Americans: (1) The Corporate and Foundation Fundraising Manual for Native Americans, (2) Church Philanthropy for Native Americans and Other Minorities: A Guide to Multicultural Funding from Religious Sources (3) The National Directory of Philanthropy for Native Americans, (4) The National Directory of Foundation Grants for Native Americans, (5) The National Directory of Seed Money Grants for American Indian Projects, and (6) The National Directory of Corporate Philanthropy for Native Americans. The company also distributes multicultural resource guides produced by other publishers.
Curriculum Associates Northwest
Cathy Ross, Director
Curriculum Associates Northwest
5715 58th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98105
canw@Halcyon.com
(206) 522-0088 / Fax: (206) 522-0088
This publisher offers six multimedia teaching kits that contain a selection of Native artifacts, books, videos, legends, and student activities for four regions (Plains, Coastal, Woodland, and Southwest) plus an overview kit of general information and a contemporary issues kit (The Way It is Today). The company also provides teacher training in the use of these materials, as well as in-service workshops on learning styles of Native American students and effective teaching strategies that increase achievement for diverse learners. For additional information on these materials and services, call and request an information packet.
Intercultural Press, Inc.
Jennifer Hoopes, Marketing Coordinator
Intercultural Press, Inc.
P.O. Box 700
374 US Route One
Yarmouth, ME 04096
books@interculturalpress.com
www.interculturalpress.com
(800) 370-2665 / (207) 846-5168 / Fax: (207) 846-5181
Intercultural Press publishes and markets materials related to the fields of intercultural relations and multiculturalism. This includes the practical concerns of living and working in foreign countries, the impact of cultural differences on personal and professional relationships, and the challenges of interacting with people from unfamiliar cultures, whether at home or abroad.
Juniper Learning
Barbara L. Decker, Marketing Director
Juniper Learning, Inc.
P. O. Box 1328
Espaola, NM 87532
http://www.juniperlearning.com
junlearn@roadrunner.com
(800) 456-1776 / (505) 753-7410 / Fax: (505) 747-1107
Juniper Learning's interdisciplinary, thematic units are designed to transform the classroom into a reality-based laboratory with an emphasis on basic skill acquisition and knowledge in language arts, geography, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts. Some of the units are Pueblo Storyteller, the Adobe Builder, and the Tinsmith Workshop. These units may contain a teacher's guide, reproducible student activity guides, bulletin board display kits, and such items as cookbooks, pots, sculptures, tools, and crafting or building materials. The Medicine Wheel Series is a Montessori program for ages 6-9 or 9-12 that explores the interrelatedness of animals, colors, minerals, or plants. The Southwest Treasure Box contains authentic materials from the Southwest or specially commissioned replicas, and the teacher's guide and student handbooks that go with these materials are available in both English and Spanish. The Native American Bookshelf, the Southwest Bookshelf, and the Clear Light Bookshelf refer to collections of books, many of which contain Native American folk tales, legends, stories, or historical accounts.
Native Book Centre
Native
Book Centre
150 York Hill Blvd.
Thornhill, Ontario
Canada L4J 2P6
http://www.nativebooks.com
nbcnet@inforamp.net
(905) 881-7804 / Fax: (905) 881-7808
The Native Book Centre sells books, stories and legends, plays, cookbooks, teachers' guides, atlases, bibliographies, audiotapes, videos, CD-ROMs, and computer graphics for and about aboriginal people in Canada and the United States. Categories include education and teaching, biography, culture, history, language, legends, literature, Native-White relations, photography, poetry, science, and spirituality. Numerous times are specifically for or about particular tribes in the Southwest.
Northwest Regional Eductional Laboratory
Portland, Oregon
http://www.nwrel.org/indianed/indianreading/
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory has produced the Indian Reading Series for elementary students in cooperation with various tribes. The series can be downloaded free of charge from NWREL's Web site. The series was field tested with more than 1200 Indian and non-Indian children in 93 classrooms. The stories, many of which are based on traditional Indian legends about birds and animals, integrate culture into the reading curriculum. With six reading levels, the series contains stories for beginning readers as well as fairly accomplished elementary readers. Four teacher's manuals and a parent/teacher guide that provides value clarification and a brief story analysis for each story come with the series.
People's Publishing Group, Inc.
Charisse
Tyus
People's Publishing Group, Inc.
Box 70
Rochelle Park, NJ 07662
(800) 822-1080 / (201) 712-0897 / Fax: (201) 712-0045
The People's Publishing Group, Inc. publishes a variety of textbooks and classroom activity packages for a multicultural school environment. Native American literature and history books are a large part of this collection, including textbooks of Native American legends, stories, profiles, and history.
Schoenhof's Foreign Books
Schoenhof's Foreign Books
76A Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.schoenhofs.com
info@schoenhofs.com
(617) 547-8855 / Fax: (617) 547-8551
Schoenhof's stocks dictionaries, grammars, readers, and language-learning materials (including audio courses) for more than 80 languages and dialects of North, Central and South America, including American Indian languages in the Southwest. Special orders and world-wide shipping are available, and all titles are available through Schoenhof's web site. The newest Language Catalogue is full of bibliographic information.
Shenandoah Film Productions
Vern
Korb, Production Manager/Partner Owner
Shenandoah Film Productions
538 G St.
Arcata, CA 95521
(707) 822-1030 / Fax: (707) 822-5334 or (707) 822-1030
Shenandoah Films distributes educational documentary videos on American Indian health and traditional issues. Distribution services are available for films and videos, as well as production services for those who wish to make their own presentations. All producers of Indian films and videos are considered and receive a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of their films or videos.
Texas A&M University Press
Texas
A&M University Press Consortium
John H. Lindsey Building, Lewis Street
4354 TAMUS
College Station TX 77843-4354
http://www.tamu.edu/upress/
fdl@tampress.tamu.edu
(800) 826-8911 (orders) / (409) 845-1436 / Fax: (888) 617-2421
or (409) 847-8752
Texas A&M University Press publishes and distributes books on the history of American Indians with an emphasis on Texas and Western peoples. Books such as Plains Indians by Paul Carlson, The Alabama-Coushatta Indians by Jonathan Hook, and Geronimo's Kids: A Teacher's Lessons on the Apache Reservation by Robert S. Ove and H. Henrietta Stockel are available from TAMU Press.
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