The Crow Place Names project at Little Big Horn College documents and preserves traditional place names, including the stories connected to those names. Stories about places often relate to important historical incidents and to behavioral values. Crow places are named more often for the physical characteristics of the land than after specific people, as is the case in American culture, and names commonly ... Full description.

In Diné culture, land use planning is natural and develops from specific processes of thought or consciousness, planned action and responses, equilibrium and life outcomes, and sustainable stability. Every member of a natural community participates in these processes -- the air, rocks, animals, water, plants, and people. A college course in environmental planning based on the Din&#233 land use ... Full description.

A college environmental science course for students at an Anishinaabe tribal college is designed to incorporate cultural values into the curriculum. Goals are that students learn both Western and Indigenous science, that they earn a fully transferrable degree, that they learn more of Anishinaabe culture at an academic level, and that they enroll more often in natural science courses. Specific laboratory ... Full description.

Anishinaabe traditional knowledge of constellations, comets, and meteorites connects people to the night sky in ways that modern astronomy does not. The stories of historical events bear within them wisdom about future possibilities as well as the past, and stories of constellations convey crucial information about cultural worldview and philosophy. Summer 2002, vol. 17, no. 3 Full description.

The TRIBES program, Tribal Resource Institute in Business, Engineering, and Science, is a powerful education program developed and run by the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT). Native high school students attend the program for seven intense weeks at the University of New Mexico. They learn leadership skills, take coursework designed to help them be better prepared for college, and form a community ... Full description.

Traditional knowledge is most similar to ecology of Western science, but it has added dimensions of being deeply integrated in Indigenous culture, language, spirituality, and philosophy. As such, it constitutes a wealth of ideas, understandings, and information developed during a healthy past, by healthy people who lived in a world whose health and sacred vitality was respected and preserved. This ... Full description.

This article describes the occurrence of listric normal faults (those which gradually flatten out with depth) in the continental shelf offshore Oregon and Washington, as seen in seismic reflection profiles. There is also a discussion of the faulting mechanics, the timing of uplift on the continental shelf, and the separation of compressional and extensional tectonic regimes on the lower and upper ... Full description.

An effective undergraduate mineralogy course provides students with a familiarity and understanding of minerals that is necessary for studying the Earth. This paper describes a strategy for integrating the disparate topics covered in a mineralogy course and for presenting them in a way that facilitates an understanding of mineralogy that enables students to apply it in subsequent courses and research. ... Full description.

This article points out that many content- or skill-based labs can be revised to explicitly involve the scientific method by asking students to propose hypotheses before making observations. Labs in which this method has been successfully applied include skill-building labs such as topographic map labs, content-based labs involving experiments with models, and field labs. Because these labs force ... Full description.

During the summer of 1999, a new type of field course was taught in five of eastern Utah's National Parks and Monuments. It targeted a combination of university undergraduates and K-12 teachers, emphasized development of participants' problem-solving skills, and assessed the effectiveness of several non-traditional teaching methods. The course's primary goal was to teach participants to develop and ... Full description.