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A bridge for our children: tribal/university partnerships to prepare indigenous teachers.(Report)
- Article from:
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Teacher Education Quarterly
- Article date:
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September 22, 2007
- Author:
- White, Carolyne J.; Bedonie, Clara; de Groat, Jennie; Lockard, Louise; Honani, Samantha
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... my mother instructs us to be a bridge for our children between the two worlds by teaching them the richness of the Navajo culture and language.
--Salita Begay (1)
Being Hopi is more than identity, it is a way of thinking, viewing, and life.
--Samantha Honani (2)
This article is about bridge building: building cultural bridges of authentic collaboration between the university and the Navajo (3) and Hopi nations; building curricular bridges between the White, European culture and the cultural worlds these nations seek to preserve; and building bridges between languages, the language of the colonizers--English--and the Navajo and Hopi languages that are ...