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Nina Buchanan; Paul E. Peterson – Education Next, 2024
Many public charter schools in the state of Hawaii are explicitly religious. For more than two decades, students at Hawaiian-focused schools have offered chants and prayers to the pantheon of gods who rule over skies, seas, and earth, including to the volcanic god, Pelehonuamea ("she who shapes the sacred land"), popularly known as Madam…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Religious Factors, State Church Separation, Political Influences
Sang, Kau'i; Worchel, Jessica – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
What would an educational system centered on core Hawaiian values look like? The Office of Hawaiian Education, established by the Hawai'i Department of Education (HIDOE) in 2015, has been exploring this question through a community-based process that differs significantly from typical Western approaches to policymaking. Often, policymakers use a…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Social Values, Indigenous Knowledge, Culturally Relevant Education
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Johnson, Michele K. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
way', iskwíst, "my name is", S?ímla?xw, and I am from Penticton BC, Canada. kn sqilxw. I am a Syilx (Okanagan, Interior Salish) adult language learner. My cohort and I are midway in our language transformation to become proficient speakers. Our names are Prasát, S?ímla?xw, C'?r?tups, X?wnámx?wnam, Sta?qwálqs, and our Elder, S?amtíc'a?.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Canada Natives
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Beeman-Cadwallader, Nicole; Quigley, Cassie; Yazzie-Mintz, Tarajean – Qualitative Inquiry, 2012
Indigenous scholars have debated the impact that researchers and the act of researching have on Native and Indigenous people and communities. Although literature on this subject has grown, little has been written explicitly laying out "the doing" of research with these communities. The authors seek to articulate their "doing"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Indigenous Populations, American Indians
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Daniels-Fiss, Belinda – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
This article describes a journey and a rediscovery of what it meant and means to speak from a Cree worldview. The way I was raised created my identity as a "nehiyaw" and to my having a Cree worldview; however, I lost these concepts when I started school and moved to the city. Later, in my adult years, I began re-learning my own history and…
Descriptors: World Views, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Languages, American Indians
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Harrison, Barbara; Papa, Rahui – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2005
In 1985, Te Wharekura o Rakaumangamanga initiated a Maori-language immersion program for children ages 5 through 18. In recent years, a program based on Waikato-Tainui tribal epistemology has been incorporated into the language immersion program. This article describes the community context and the language immersion and tribal knowledge programs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations