Putting tribal culture in lessons (fwd link)

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Putting tribal culture in lessons

BY TRAVIS COLEMAN Tribune Staff Writer • December 15, 2008
USA

FORT BELKNAP — For Lori Archambault, teaching friction to her students on the
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is as easy as showing them how to grind corn.
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The task helps her students at White Clay Immersion School better understand
friction, in addition to learning a skill their ancestors picked up decades
ago. Archambault, an Assiniboine tribal member, said her students comprehend
most lessons easier when she incorporates their tribal language, history and
culture.

She attributes the students' academic success to Native Americans teaching
Native Americans, a concept that often is said to be effective but has not
always been put into use on the Fort Belknap Reservation. That is beginning to
change, thanks to Fort Belknap Community College's teacher training program.

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