Alaska Native Education
Views from Within
Distributed for Alaska Native Knowledge Network
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future
Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future
Doreen Andersen-Spear and Eben Hopson
Alaska Native Education
Alaska Natives Commission/Alaska Federation of Natives
The State of Native Education
John C. Sackett
Why Native Education?
Dennis Demmert
Culture and Change from Iñupiat and Yup’ik People of Alaska
Edna Ahgeak MacLean
Iñupiat Ilitqusiat: To Save Our Land and Our People
John Schaeffer and John D. Christensen
Alaska Native Education: History and Adaptation in the New Millenium
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Part II: Native Pathways to Education
Serving the Purpose of Education
Leona Okakok
Follow the Lights: Native Ways of Knowing
Bernice Joseph
The Circle We Call Community
Miranda Wright
Revitalization of the Qargi
Edna Ahgeak MacLean
Growing Up to Be Tlingit
Dr. Walter Soboleff
Part III: Honoring Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Implications for Participatory Research and Community
Patricia A. L. Cochran, Catherine A. Marshall, Carmen Garcia-Downing, Elizabeth Kendall,
Doris Cook, Laurie McCubbin, and Reva Mariah S. Gover
Alaska Native Traditional Knowledge and Ways of Knowing
Carl Hild, Editor
Aleut/Alutiiq Region: Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights
Gordon L. Pullar
Western Society’s Linear Systems and Aboriginal Cultures
Larry Merculieff
Aspects of Silence: When Do Traditions Begin?
Miranda Wright
Culture, Chaos, and Complexity
Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Part IV: Culturally Responsive Curriculum
The Indigenous Worldview of Yupiaq Culture
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, Delena Norris-Tull, and Roger Norris-Tull
Their Silence About Us
Paul Ongtooguk
Education and the Subsistence Way of Life
Art Davidson and Harold Napoleon
Alaska’s Cultures: Building a Context for Stories and Traditions
Paul Ongtooguk
Part V: Strengthening Native Languages
I Will Speak Again!
Cecilia R. Martz
Collaboration in Education
Ayaprun Loddie Jones
Evolution in the Yup’ik Language
Oscar F. Alexie and Gerald S. Domnick
Mediating Athabascan Oral Traditions
Beth Leonard
Part VI: Education for Self-Determination
The Cry of the Loon: Mysterious, Mournful, Remembering Place
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Who Controls Alaska Native Education?
Paul Ongtooguk
Decolonizing Western Alaska
Perry T. Mendenhall
Education and Cultural Self-Determination
Paul Ongtooguk
Effects of Modernization on the Cup’ik of Alaska
Lucy Jones-Sparck
Appendices
Guidelines for Research by the Alaska Federation of Natives Board of Directors
The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Education
U.N. Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
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