Choctaw Nation

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Janette Hayes explains the No Child Left Behind act and provides feedback that could stop the negative effects on Native American students. They provide the historical context of how NCLB has been used way before 2001. The federal government and the Native Americans have butted heads on how to teach our children. Our culture and language could influence our education to have better scores on the standardized test. They share their case study results from schools that had the Culture Based Education. The Choctaw Nation has taken action to prevent the extinction of their language by creating different methods of teaching the language in nontraditional settings. The have overcome certain challenges and have had positive results. President Bush…show more content…
58). The Cherokee people truly believed that the white man’s way of life was better; they were under a hegemonic veil. They were thinking that the white man is their father when that wasn’t part of their culture. The white people are not our father they are immigrants who never respected us and looked at us as unequal to them. They aspired themselves to own land and business to actually be accepted in their white father…show more content…
Bowles states (2012), Languages establish comfort, self-assurance, and success; they help shape self-awareness, identity, and interpersonal relationships. When people lose their languages, they lose their ability to give voice to their cultures and identities (p. 89). I could relate this statement to what Malcolm Benally was saying of how two of his professors at Northern Arizona University taught in the Navajo language. Immediately he felt comfortable like he could relate to that person. From that point on, it established his self-assurance and he succeeded in school due to the professors speaking the language. If the professors did not teach by the using of the language he would have never been able to tell about his cultural life and would have lost his language. I wasn’t fortunate to have been taught in all Navajo in the classroom in my elementary years. If teachers taught that way I say I would have had a better chance being fluent in the language but then I’m stuck being not fluently in English or Navajo. Fourth, do I believe in the No Child Left Behind act? When I attended Chinle Boarding School at Many Farms, AZ in year 1997 to that where I first heard about the NCLB. Just looking back I also wanted to why my parents had to fill out this paper my teacher said it related to the NCLB act. When I first took that paper home my parents didn’t want to fill it out for me. So I took it upon myself to just fill in any answer in order to get free snacks
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