Dropout Rates among American Indian and Alaska Native Students
Cradleboard Teaching Project "The Cradleboard Teaching Project turns on the lights in public education about Native American culture - past, present, and most important for the children - the Future. It comes out of Indian country, and reaches far beyond, into the mainstream classroom and into the future of education. "
A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians Smithsonian Institution: "Images of Native Americans are all around us. They appear in movies, television, books, and sports; are used as symbols and logos for tires, butter, the environment, carpeting, and automobiles; and show up at different times of year as Halloween costumes, in Boy Scout and Campfire Girl rituals, and as guests at Thanksgiving feasts. Few of these images have any basis in reality, drawn as they are from one of the most closely held beliefs of American mythology. Indeed, even Indians themselves sometimes have a difficult time separating the reality of their lives as human beings from the fantasy expected of them by the rest of America. "
Issues in Native American Education The gap in educational achievement between white and non-white ethnic groups, cultural dissonance between the dominant and non-dominant culture, assimilation and integration of Native American culture, cultural perceptions of Native Americans by the "white" culture, classroom climate, and solutions. (Arizona State University 1997)
