Native American Children in the United States
Cassidy Krauskopf
Adrian FarruggiaCaitlin Anderson
Texas Tech University
Abstract
To be successful in teaching Native American students it is critical that teachers find ways to raise students’ self-esteem. Starting with several ways, including expecting all of your students to succeed, emphasizing strengths, having a comfortable classroom, giving students respect and always holding a relationship with your students, while also including Native American literature, art, culture, values and activities in the curriculum and making sure they maintain pride within their heritage. A major challenge that is faced is the historical …show more content…
As soon as settlers came they pushed Native American out of their land in order to control it as their own. Native Americans tried to fight back but this was a very difficult task because they were unarmed and didn’t have the weaponry that the English had. Native Americans were killed and were also forced to work for the English. The Native American population was decreased dramatically due to the brutal treatment from colonist along with different diseases they brought overseas like small pox. Native Americans lived all across America and would move from place to place after their land and homes were colonized. Native Americans are heavily populated in the Colorado and Oklahoma areas but nonetheless still have a population that has decreased dramatically over the years. In areas like Mississippi, West Virginia, and Kentucky there is not a large population of Native Americans. In today’s society many Native Americans live on Reservations which are areas of land managed by Native Americans under different polies set by the United States. On this land Native Americans are able to make their own rules to follow to a certain extent. Native Americans allow gambling which makes a lot of money for the reservations because gambling is not legal in the United States. These reservations are located in abundance in the Colorado and Oklahoma …show more content…
Currently, the new provisions to the No Child Left Behind Act have created difficulties for these language immersion schools. In these schools they are trying to fight against the requirement of children having to take their tests in English. Also, in these schools they do not usually introduce English until 5th grade, therefore these schools are being penalized because they don’t test well during their students early ages. Because of this, and the new version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it makes it very to expand their school past elementary school. Another reason that it is hard to expand is because the school has to hire qualified teachers that speak well in both languages and be able to teach all of the subjects because at this point, they only have one teacher in these lower grades. They also have trouble with grades because the parents of these children don’t make them take English tests because they want their children to keep their