Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Brothertown readers are introduced to details

readers are introduced to details about Navajo life and the Navajo names for family members

and civilizations are themselves vulnerable to historical forces

squash and other delectables

all three individuals hoped to benefit their own communities by engaging with the new arrivals

the Ghost Dance remains widely mischaracterized as a primitive and failed effort by Indian militants to resist American conquest and return to traditional ways

Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Brothertown readers are introduced to detailsIndigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent English only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in