Alaska native education views from within

Part I: Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future -- Alaska Native Education: Past, Present, and Future / Doreen Andersen-Spear and Eben Hopson -- Alaska Native Education / Alaska Natives Commission-Alaska Federation of Natives -- The State of Native Education / John C. Sackett -- Why Native Education? / Dennis Demmert -- Culture and Change from Iñupiat and Yup'ik People of Alaska / Edna Ahgeak MacLean -- Iñupiat Ilitqusiat: To Save Our Land and Our People / John Schaeffer and John D. Christensen -- Alaska Native Education: History and Adaptation in the New Millenium / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley. Part II: Native Pathways to Education -- Serving the Purpose of Education / Leona Okakok -- Follow the Lights: Native Ways of Knowing / Bernice Joseph -- The Circle We Call Community / Miranda Wright -- Revitalization of the Qargi / Edna Ahgeak MacLean -- Growing Up to Be Tlingit / Dr. Walter Soboleff. Part III: Honoring Indigenous Knowledge -- Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Implications for Participatory Research and Community / Patricia A.L. Cochran [and others] -- Alaska Native Traditional Knowledge and Ways of Knowing / Carl Hild, Editor -- Aleut-Alutiiq Region: Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights / Gordon L. Pullar -- Western Society's Linear Systems and Aboriginal Cultures / Larry Merculieff -- Aspects of Silence: When Do Traditions Begin? / Miranda Wright -- Culture, Chaos, and Complexity / Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley. Part IV: Culturally Responsive Curriculum -- The Indigenous Worldview of Yupiaq Culture / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, Delena Norris-Tull, and Roger Norris-Tull -- Their Silence About Us / Paul Ongtooguk -- Education and the Subsistence Way of Life / Art Davidson and Harold Napoleon -- Alaska's Cultures: Building a Context for Stories and Traditions / Paul Ongtooguk. Part V: Strengthening Native Languages -- I Will Speak Again! / Cecilia R. Martz -- Collaboration in Education / Ayaprun Loddie Jones -- Evolution in the Yup'ik Language / Oscar F. Alexie and Gerald S. Domnick -- Mediating Athabascan Oral Traditions / Beth Leonard. Part VI: Education for Self-Determination -- The Cry of the Loon: Mysterious, Mournful, Remembering Place / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley -- Who Controls Alaska Native Education? / Paul Ongtooguk -- Decolonizing Western Alaska / Perry T. Mendenhall -- Education and Cultural Self-Determination / Paul Ongtooguk -- Effects of Modernization on the Cup'ik of Alaska / Lucy Jones-Sparck -- Guidelines for Research by the Alaska Federation of Natives Board of Directors The Coolangatta Statement on Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Education U.N. Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.