Alaska Native Education

by Barnhardt, Ray; Kawagley, Angayuqaq Oscar

• ISBN13: 9781877962431
• ISBN10: 1877962430
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Alaska Fairbanks Center for

Summary

Over the past century, the outside world has increasingly encroached on Alaska Native communities, and one of the consequences of that change has been a shift in the purpose and structure of schools in Alaska Native communities.Alaska Native Educationbrings together a variety of experts in the field of indigenous education to show the ways in which Alaska Natives have adopted and adapted outside ideas and rules regarding educationand how they have frequently found them problematic and insufficient. The authors follow their analysis with suggestions of ways forward, emphasizing the benefits of blending new and old practices that will simultaneously prepare Alaska Native students for the future while preserving and strengthening their ties to the past.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future
Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future	p. 1
Alaska Native Education: Alaska Natives Commission/Alaska Federation of Natives	p. 7
The State of Native Education	p. 31
Why Native Education?	p. 35
Culture and Change for Iñupiat and Yup'ik People of Alaska	p. 41
Iñupiat Ilitqusiat: To Save Our Land and Our People	p. 59
Alaska Native Education: History and Adaptation in the New Millennium	p. 73
Native Pathways to Education
Serving the Purpose of Education	p. 99
Follow the Lights: Native Ways of Knowing	p. 119
The Circle We Call Community	p. 125
Revitalization of the Qargi	p. 131
Growing Up to Be Tlingit	p. 139
Honoring Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Implications for Participatory Research and Community	p. 147
Alaska Native Traditional Knowledge and Ways of Knowing	p. 161
Aleut/Alutiiq Region: Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights	p. 177
Western Society's Linear Systems and Aboriginal Cultures	p. 183
Aspects of Silence: When Do Traditions Begin?	p. 193
Culture, Chaos, and Complexity	p. 199
Culturally Responsive Curriculum
The Indigenous Worldview of Yupiaq Culture	p. 219
Their Silence About Us	p. 237
Education and the Subsistence Way of Life	p. 241
Alaska's Cultures: Building a Context for Stories and Traditions	p. 253
Strengthening Native Languages
I Will Speak Again!	p. 257
Collaboration in Education	p. 263
Evolution of the Yup'ik Language	p. 265
Mediating Athabascan Oral Traditions	p. 273
Education for Self-Determination
The Cry of the Loon: Mysterious, Mournful, Remembering Place	p. 293
Who Controls Alaska Native Education?	p. 301
Decolonizing Western Alaska	p. 307
Education and Cultural Self-Determination	p. 313
Effects of Modernization on the Cup'ik Of Alaska	p. 317
Appendices
Guidelines for Research: Alaska Federation of Natives Board of Directors	p. 335
The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Education	p. 337
U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	p. 349
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