The Nativization of the Tribal Workforce: A Vision for the Future tribalcollegejournal.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribalcollegejournal.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The focus of tribal colleges’ work is to seek connections between the cultures and heritage of the Indigenous communities they serve and mainstream education curricula. Danny Luecke (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), a member of the Teacher Education Department at Turtle Mountain Community College, and Dr. David Sanders (Oglala Sioux Tribe), vice president of research at the American Indian College Fund, explored the connections between math content, local culture, and the classroom. While using an Indigenous research paradigm at Sitting Bull College, located on the Standing Rock Reservation, their work looks at how to connect language and culture in the tribal college math classroom and has contributed to a change in the theory of knowledge incorporated at tribal colleges and universities.
A scholar who has made a name for herself in Native food sovereignty has vowed to stop claiming to be of “Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent” despite doing so for decades.
College Fund Invests in Tribal College Faculty Development tribalcollegejournal.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tribalcollegejournal.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.