Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture

Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and CultureIndigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent English only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in

and so to learn her place in Creation

and these stories reveal their tribal history

insightful examination of Native attitudes toward aging and eldership

the boys run back to their camp

beginning the fourth season of her life

becomes the central compelling image in the story

Jane Addams

The old lady could have lived in a moccasin

whose shadows are equally capable of protecting encounters between boys learning to become

I gave my Antelope Woman her wise wildness

Sure to capture the imagination of any young child

The result is a book that reframes the history of Manitou Aki and shares a vision of how Ojibway