Examining Native Americas

Another difficulty many Native American students are faced with is high absent rates. “In 2005 Native American eighth graders had the highest rate of absences of any race or ethnic group in the preceding month- 66 % of Native American students had been absent, and 30 % had been absent three of more times in the past month.” (Doak 37) It boils down to the fact that students need to be in school to succeed in school. These absences can be attributed to a uninviting school setting. Often times Native American students are overlooked in classrooms in favor of other students who are seem more likely to do well. A school environment that is unwelcoming can be a strong deterrent for any student. These students need to feel that their education is helping them, and that it is worthwhile.

To Entering and adjusting to college is often stressful on any student but for Native Americans it is often more stressful. The number of under-graduate students enrolled in college in the U.S. in fall of 2012, was17.7 million, Native Americans account for approximately .9% of the total population of college students. (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)On average, 57.5% of students who entered a four-yearinstitution of higher education in the United States in the year 2000 graduated within six years.Only 40.2% of Native American students who entered four-year institutions in that same year graduated within six years.(Crosby, 2011) Areas that can highly affect a Native Americans success at college are family support, structured social support,

Many Native Americans are unaware of opportunities that are available due to the isolation that they face on reservations. In 1992 only seventy-eight percent of Native Americans received a high school diploma. This makes Native Americans the least likely of all minority groups, besides Hispanics, to obtain a high school degree. One main reason for Native Americans being unable to obtain a high school diploma is having to leave school to get a job. If a member of their family faces an illness or disability that causes them to be unable to work, the younger members of the family are going to need to help provide for the family. In many cases there is not a disability or illness, Native Americans have very poor wages and are unable to survive on only two incomes. Only eleven percent of Native Americans continues on to college after high school and receives a degree. Being a minority student automatically gives Native Americans a

A comparison of native students and their non-native peers quickly brings one to the realization that native students are not experiencing a comparable degree of education success in Canadian schools. It is vital that native Canadians address this issue thoroughly, to insure that the nation is no longer faced with a semi-literate, unemployable population, requiring financial support. In order to fully address native educational underachievement it is important to examine the historical causes of the problem, the issues we are faced with today, as well as, identifying possible viable solutions.

American Indian Students do not have the same educational access and opportunity other traditional students do. Due to financial hardships, no non-major specific scholarships, and family obligations, American Indian students drop out in their second or third year

For many Native Americans, there is an insightful feeling of being disregarded within our American society. While being ignored, Native Americans are expected to comply to the stereotypes and misunderstandings of what we know as Indians. If you were to speak with a person who was “Native American” they would culturally identify themselves as a part of their national tribe such as Apache, or Cherokee. In modern times, Native Americans are only discussed in their pre-1900 existence. Throughout schools nationwide, students learn about Native Americans twice yearly, (one lesson around Columbus Day and another lesson around Thanksgiving). In the essay “All Indians Are Dead?” Sarah Shear states, “Students are graduating from high school without even basic knowledge of contemporary Native challenges

The high school graduation rate for First Nations is at 31%, while the non-aboriginal graduation rate is 72%. It is said that 7 in 10 First Nations won’t graduate from highschool. People think low of Aboriginals because they drop out of school and get themselves into trouble, but they never think about how we could prevent this from happening. Some First Nations are dropping out because they feel that their culture isn’t being supported. Non-Aboriginals get to learn about their cultures and go to schools that support them, but they don’t. They feel like people are trying to change them. They don’t want to go somewhere they don’t feel accepted for being

For many years Native American people have been discriminated against in the United States as well as in the Public School system. Beginning with the common-school movement of the 1830s and 1840s, which attempted to stop the flow toward a more diverse society, the school systems have continued to be geared exclusively toward WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). Native Americans have been forced to abandon their culture and conform to our “American” ways (Rothenberg, 1998, pp. 258-259.)

This approach can be subdivided into cultural and social aspects that were affected by disease and conquest, and linguistically as impacted by the Spanish inferior influence of conversion. In the field of archaeology, these changes could be seen in pottery styles and technology, which was attributed to the influence made by the Europeans. The abandonment of sites and shifts in settlement patterns were associated with depopulation, which resulted from contact and diseases. The theory that most historians and archaeologist accept is the ethnohistorical approach because it clearly shows the historical archaeology of Native Americans depopulation and must be studied as a form of cultural change. The Spanish affected the native’s socially by kidnapping

Native American people arrived in the Americas approximately 15,000 and 600,000 years ago after venturing across the Bering Strait in groups known as the Paleo-Indians. They dispersed and split throughout this new world in concurrence with game routes, spreading from the northern Canadian regions, throughout Central America, and then further to South America.

Since the 16th century, the Bering Strait region has been viewed as the likely route of travel from the Old World to the New World. Paleoindians moved into North America beyond the Bering Land Bridge between Eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska during the Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation. (Rivals & Semprebon, 2012, pg. 1608-1609). Pleistocene animals grazed their way through ice-free corridors, water logged routes, across Beringia and into Siberia, leaving footprints in the dry land in which hunter gatherer Paleoindians

Approximately 5000 years ago the continents were connected by a large mass of ice, making a bridge that was treacherous and bitterly cold. Eskimos originating from Asia traveled over the vast 12,000 mile bridge over several years, until they reached what is now Canada. Some stayed in Canada and parts of Alaska, but most moved on and continued traveling south. After an agonizingly long, cold journey they reached America and were the first settlers to ever call her home. Although they were the first settlers, they definitely were not the last. After King James I consent a group of English men,women, and children left for America on December 6th 1606. After brutal storms and sickness they finally reached there destination on May 13th 1607. The group

Basic Argument- Native American students in Alaska disproportionally receive less involvement, support, and interaction from university faculty and staff, causing a decline in the completion of their collegiate studies.

Many of the Native Americans students are fluently using English as their mother tongue. In The Search Engine of The Ten Indians (Alexie 2003, 1), Sherman Alexie wrote a story about a young college student grew up from Spokane Indian reservation, and she tried to find a Spokane Indian author because she loves the writer’s book. The young Spokane Indian, Corliss, has the opportunity to go to college in Washington State University with the family’s family support. Mandy young Indian, in the Pacific Northwest, are getting similar quality of education as Corliss, and the education helps the younger generation to regain respect from the society once they have accomplished success

Due to varying geographical conditions Indian villages had to find stable sources of food and water; they did this through the invention of agriculture. Agriculture then lead to the downfall of migration and the beginning of stable, city-like environments. Indians began to develop ways to bring water to arid land so they could plant and supply food for themselves. In doing this these people could increase the population, stabilize the population, and develop a