By Maenette K.P. A Benham, Wayne J. Stein
ISBN-10: 0805843205
ISBN-13: 9780805843200
ISBN-10: 0805843213
ISBN-13: 9780805843217
The local American greater schooling Initiative (NAHEI), a W.W. Kellogg beginning undertaking, has supported the advance and development of facilities of excellence at Tribal faculties and Universities around the usa. those are facilities of latest considering studying and educating, modeling replacement sorts of academic management, and developing new platforms of post-secondary studying at Tribal schools and Universities. This publication interprets the data received during the NAHEI courses right into a shape that may be tailored via a huge viewers, together with practitioners in pre-K via post-secondary schooling, academic directors, academic policymakers, students, and philanthropic foundations, to enhance the training and existence event of local (and non-native) inexperienced persons.
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Pp. 4-5) Why an Indigenous People's Philosophy However clear it remains that American Indian tribal nations are working hard to hang on to their folkways, as are most indigenous people around the world, it is also clear that the Western cultural ways that have flooded the world through colonization, and now commerce, have made substantial and at times overwhelming inroads into all American Indian and indigenous cultures. The free-enterprise system of economics, based on capitalistic principles, gluttonous consumerism, high technology, and faster and better systems of communication and transportation, has shrunk the world and erased most barriers protecting any culture, not just the indigenous ones.
Finally, Nichols affirmed the need for continued support of national leadership activities, especially in the areas of (a) human and financial resources, (b) advocacy and outreach to relevant higher education institutions and organizations, (c) institutional data collection and policy-related research, (d) technical assistance and professional development, and (e) organizational development and strategic positioning. All five areas, Nichols stressed, are important to the sustained excellence and growth of the Native American higher education movement.
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