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Emphasis on Indigenous language and culture is a vital component of Native American epistemology, with language seen as essential to understanding psychology and different states of consciousness. [4] Hester and Cheney have written about the strong link between nature and the interpretation of knowledge within Native American cultures.
Representatives from the conference formally presented the declaration to President John F. Kennedy in a ceremony at the White House on August 5, 1962. The spirit of self-determination expressed in the document was a cornerstone of Native activism in the years that followed, including the Red Power movement and the expansion of Native American ...
The National Indian Education Association (NIEA) is a membership-based organization "committed to increasing educational opportunities and resources for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students while protecting our cultural and linguistic traditions." [30] NIEA came into being in 1970.
American Philosophical Society; American Society for Aesthetics; American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy; Animal Rights Cambridge; Arché (research center) Aristotelian Society; Association for Logic, Language and Information; Association for Symbolic Logic; Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness; Australasian ...
Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]
They were observed in the interactions of children with their Mexican-American teachers in a classroom setting. Mexican-American teachers with indigenous-influenced backgrounds facilitate smooth, back-and-forth coordination when working with students and in these interactions, guidance of children’s attention is not forced.
American Anthropologist. New Series. 72 (1): 90– 97. doi: 10.1525/aa.1970.72.1.02a00110. JSTOR 670758. The Indians of the Northeast: A Critical Bibliography (1978) [6] Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals and Ceremonials (1979) [7] Ethnographie des ...
Who We Are: An Exploration of Identity by V. F. Cordova (Center for Applied Studies in American Ethnicity, Colorado State University, 1994) Hearing Other Voices: A Series of Talks and Lectures by Viola Cordova, PhD (Colorado State University, 1995) Cordova, V. F. (2007). How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova. Edited by ...