I would like to express my appreciation to Ann Zeise at A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling and to Mz. Patti R. for providing much of the following information. Please e-mail me with ideas for additional resources!
Associations:
Native American Homeschool Association
"We Have The Right To Be Who We Are"
There were times when our children were forced from us to government reservation schools or off reservation religious schools, to learn things that OTHER people thought that they should know. Even today, social services sometimes comes to take our children if they are not enrolled in a school the STATE feels is qualified to teach them.
And members of Non-federally recognized tribes have also suffered.
With no political authority within a state members of non federally
recognized tribes have often had no other recourse than to send
their children to public schools. The idea of keeping children
out of the system has always been there, but so has the might
and authority of local school superintendents.
Today, there is support and LEGAL assistance available for those
who want to home school. The benefits of home schooling are too
numerous to list here. In your membership package, you will receive
a newsletter put out on Indian time every once in a while if at
all, a membership card, a list of resources, and as we grow, a
list of home school support groups in your area. You will also
receive the addresses of groups offering alternative curriculums
which meet state education requirements but still allow flexibility
in adding your own areas of study.
The Native American Home School Association is also working on its OWN curriculum guidelines. The idea is that as many concerns of education should be addressed as possible. Here are the areas we are looking at:
1. A curriculum based on combining state requirements with Native American areas of study
2. A curriculum which can be used as a guideline for tribes and tribal organizations in which several or many students are involved. This program of study would reflect the mandates of the tribe rather than the state.
3. A curriculum which doesn't even take state mandates into consideration.
THESE CURRICULUM ARE IDEAS WHICH WE HOPE WILL BE IMPLEMENTED SOON,
BUT HAVE NOT YET BEEN DONE. MEMBERSHIP INPUT IS DESIRED.
Our main site at http://www.expage.com/page/nahomeschool
is down. We don't know why.We have had that site for several years.
Please list this site
http://www.expgae.com/page/nahomeschool2
in your favorites as well as the Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation web
site at
http://www.expage.com/page/intelligence
MEMBERSHIP IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN HOMESCHOOL ASSOCIATION IS COMPLETELY FREE! Send your name, address, a letter, and a SASE and we'll sign you right up! If you have already done this, please be patient. We WILL get back to you. We are REAL Indians and we live and work on Indian time.
Misty Dawn Thomas,
Director
Native American Home School Association
P.O. Box 979
Fries, Virginia 24330
Native Americans for Home Education
WHO WE ARE:
NAHE is an organization for Native American home schooling families
across North America. Created by a Cherokee/Catawba home schooling
mother of 3, NAHE headquarters is in the beautiful Blue Ridge
mountains of North Carolina. We are currently seeking people
begin chapters of NAHE across the United States.
OUR BELIEFS:
We believe that Native American children can learn and grow
best at home, while preserving their heritage and culture, which
seems to be diminishing so quickly in this time of modernization
and progress. We feel parents should be able to give their children
a challenging education while at the same time, nurturing the
spirit. NAHE offers support and encouragement for Native American
home schooling families, regardless of tribal enrollment or blood
degree.
OUR GOALS:
>>>To build a nation-wide community of Native American
home schooling families through the establishment of state chapters.
>>>To offer support for families by providing affordable
curriculum, web sites, family-oriented activities, legal information,
help and encouragement.
>>>By planning and carrying through local curriculum
and book fairs, seminars, and pow wows
>>>By providing a place on the World Wide Web for NAHE
families from all over the country to get together and chat.
>>>To help nurture Native American children in body,
mind, and spirit
>>>To help preserve the heritage and ways of the First
Nations
>>>To promote harmony and balance in families
>>>To encourage excellence while practicing humility,
respect, and gratitude.
MORE:
Membership in the NAHE is FREE. To start a chapter in your state,
and/or to join NAHE in North Carolina, and for more information,
please contact me at
Nuwahti@yahoo.com.
Sharyn Robbins-Kennedy
President of NAHE & NAHE of North Carolina
P.O. Box 464
Bostic, NC 28018
Chatroom & Pages for Homeschoolers:
Native American Homeschoolers Yahoo Group
A group for those homeschooling or unschooling with a Native American backround or ancestry who are trying to teach without Christian influence.
"Sharon's Talking Circle"
Go to the bottom of the front
page to find a message board link.
Interview:
Interview With Misty Dawn Thomas
by
Gina Rozon
from Home
Education Magazine
Children's Magazine:
Our newsletter offers a wide assortment of activities for children of all ages. Each issue contains Native American History, Science Facts, Native People Empowered, Simple Science Projects, Homeschooling Center, World News, Native Crafts, Music and Antiquities, Games, Stories and numerous other activities. In the future we hope to add more areas of interest.
Our website contains the archives that house every issue we have ever published so that you can go back anytime you want to reread and enjoy our back issues.
Have you noticed that we are presenting
a Nation as the theme for each issue?
This is so you can keep them as a reference for future studies
:)
Web Ring:
Tribal World is a webring forum, for the movement of campaigning groups and individuals, concerned with the survival of Tribal peoples and their culture. Our task is to help them all preserve their unique cultures from enforced assimilation, alien religions, the ideologies of 'progress' and 'growth' and absorption into the global economy. This ring does not limit itself to NA tribes. [editor's note: be wary of the flashy, deceptive advertising on this site]
Chatroom & Pages not homeschool related:
This is a group for the friends and members
of the Thunderbird Society based in Missouri. This group is moderated
by a non-member.