[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Native American Education

[Marge Philbrook]

Sounds like a great idea to me.  Marge Philbrook  in Chicago

KarenBueno at aol.com wrote:

> January 3, 2005
>  
> Sunny Walker, Oliveann Slotta and I met with Roger (I didn’t learn his 
> last name) of CERT today to hear his vision for Native American 
> Education, and his hope that the ICA could help make it a reality.
>  
> Roger’s grandmother and grandfather both ran away from the Indian 
> boarding schools which were run in their times; an often cruel 
> separation of children from their parents in an attempt to force them 
> into the white culture.  Roger now lives in Denver and has his 
> children in a charter school.  His passion is education, and his 
> vision is that great education be available for all Native American 
> children and youth.
>  
> There are some 560 different tribes in the United States, each with 
> its own heritage and culture and mythology and, usually, language.  A 
> comprehensive vision would be to gather elders and youth of any one 
> tribe and create a vision for all aspects of education for their 
> group.  Then the enactment of that vision could be enabled through a 
> charter school structure.  The visioning process could be led by 
> ICA-trained facilitators, and could be drawn up as an educational model.
>  
> As a pilot, this might begin in a Umatilla tribe in eastern Oregon, 
> near Pendleton.  There is a group in Phoenix who has been involved in 
> charter school management who might take part.
>  
> The project sounds huge, as large or larger than the town meeting 
> campaign.  The possibilities for impacting the Native American youth 
> would be far-reaching.  Perhaps a university education program would 
> help to sponsor such a project.
>  
> The meeting was to share Roger’s vision, and I’m passing it on to the 
> ICA/OE dialog for your reflections.
>  
> Karen Bueno
>
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