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  2. Indigenous education - Wikipedia

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    A growing body of scientific literature has described Indigenous ways of learning, in different cultures and countries. Learning in Indigenous communities is a process that involves all members in the community. [4] [5] [6] The learning styles that children use in their Indigenous schooling are the same ones that occur in their community context.

  3. Language is important in respecting Native American heritage ...

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    I take great indigenous pride in the progress my Indigenous people are making. The Chickasaws, for example, are blessed to have one of the greatest leaders in their history in Gov. Bill Anoatubby.

  4. Child development of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Guidance from community-wide expectations is an important facet of learning through keen attention for Indigenous children. During interactions where children are integrated into family and community contexts, role-switching, a practice in which roles and responsibilities in completing a task are alternated, is common for the less-experienced ...

  5. Indigenous language - Wikipedia

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    An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples. Indigenous languages are not necessarily national languages but they can be; for example, Aymara is both an indigenous language and an official language of Bolivia .

  6. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).

  7. Heritage language learning - Wikipedia

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    The difference between native language (or First language) and heritage language is an important distinction to make.The term "native language" tends to be associated with acquisition at a very early age and carries with it the notion that a person will achieve a high amount of fluency and proficiency in this language.

  8. Indigenous Language Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) is a nonprofit organization that works to preserve and pass on language traditions within indigenous groups located in North America. The organization was founded in 1992 as the Preservation of Original Languages of the Americas (IPOLA), and it has since worked closely with various indigenous peoples ...

  9. Bilingual education by country or region - Wikipedia

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    For many students, the process of learning literacy and a new language simultaneously is simply an overwhelming task, so bilingual programs began as a way to help such students develop native language literacy first – research by Cummins, [53] a central researcher in the field, shows that skills such as literacy developed in a first language ...