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Item Twenty-five strong: the current state and potential future of Ararahih (the Karuk language)(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2024) Barney, Tanner Scot; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Matthew HermanResearch on various language apps, app building, language learning, Indigenous methodologies, and American Indian law and policy has made for a sound argument to kickstart the support of a Karuk dictionary app, eventual language learning app, and Karuk data sovereignty. The purpose of this work is to take in the broad academic discussion to think critically about it and build upon it in order to determine an Indigenous methodology for language apps and raise up Karuk community language regeneration efforts. In this paper, the themes addressed include Indigenous methodologies, the influence of language in life, legal implications for Native American Tribes in the United States wishing to practice data sovereignty, developing themes in Indigenous Methodologies for language apps, discussion on both Tribal and Western language apps, and app construction. To ensure wide reception, this work is written with the intention of being discussed by Karuk scholars and community members, and the broader academic and general audience of both Native and non-Native backgrounds.Item The effectiveness of just in time vocabulary instruction in inquiry science(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2020) Patton, Rachel Lynn; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Greg FrancisThis action research aimed to answer the question, are students able to learn and apply vocabulary that was not pre-taught but was instead introduced at the moment students needed the vocabulary. This research also examined whether there were differences in the vocabulary scores of English Language Learners (ELL) and non-ELL students. Students completed a science vocabulary pre-test for vocabulary related to nuclear chemistry and chemical bonding. Then, over the course of the two units, students completed guided inquiry activities which explored the concepts of nuclear chemistry and chemical bonding. Vocabulary was introduced after students had explored these concepts, and the terms were defined and added to student vocabulary trackers and the class word wall. At the end of each unit, students completed a vocabulary post-test, which consisted of both recall and application questions. At the end of the second unit students were asked to complete the survey assessing attitudes toward this method of instruction, and a small percentage of students also participated in an interview. Both ELL and non-ELL students showed statistically significant gains from pre-test to post-test in both vocabulary knowledge and confidence. Results indicate that students effectively learn content vocabulary even when the vocabulary is not explicitly pre-taught.Item Becoming a culturally and linguistically responsive science teacher: a descriptive study(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2020) Kirkpatrick, Erin Alexandra; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Greg FrancisThe impact of culturally and linguistically responsive teaching was measured in a middle school science classroom. Student surveys, instructional coach observations, student interviews, and a teacher journal were used to collect data. The results indicate a positive increase in student engagement, and the teacher developed a deeper understanding of student cultures and behaviors.Item Piikani School leadership(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 2018) Hall, Omaksaakoomapi Bradford Roy; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: William RuffThis dissertation focuses on Piikani school leadership as shared through the narratives and experiences of a retired school leader. Noonaki's experiences chronicle her longevity in school leadership and steadfast commitment to integrating the Piikani culture and language into the schools she led on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Noonaki's stories provide a realistic view of school leadership challenges she faced and offer her thought provoking knowledge to inspire current and aspiring school leaders to accept the Piikani values into their practices. School leaders are key to advancing Piikani values, culture, and language into the schools they serve on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Therefore, school leaders when developing relevant leadership practices, are called upon to commit themselves to practice ai-sii-moki' (guidance, teaching, and discipline), as they encounter and mitigate challenges among community stakeholders, specifically focusing on how they each can support student success. Through Noonaki's transfer of knowledge from her to the researcher, this exchange encapsulates her experiences into stories, told in the places where she practiced school leadership. Community Centered Digital Storywork (CCDS), is an integrated Piikani knowledge dissemination framework, that leverages cultural protocols to capture Piikani ways of knowing. Noonaki inspires current and aspiring school leaders to build their skills and practices around the Piikani values of okamotsitapiyiisin (honesty), ainnakowe (respect), aahsitapiitsin (generosity), waattosin (spirituality), matsisskii or iiyiikittahpii (courage), maanistapaisspipii (humility), and kimmapiiyipitsinni (compassion).Item My dildo called Nicaragua: rewriting cultural mythos(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2018) Benton, Sonja Annalise; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Linda KarellThis, more than anything, is a retelling of a story. It is a retelling of being an activist, a cancer victim, a writer, a student, a teacher, and an American. It is a new mythology of the classroom, the university, of the creation of language. I draw on Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde, and countless others, to guide a new conception of how to move in the world, how to become, and how to rewrite the myths that have been told about us. I hoped to create an answer and precedent for my own experience and shed new light on the work of 80s intersectional feminists as a guide for activism in the 2010s and 2020s to come. Its success as a paper depends on those who do work in the future, on the guidance it manages or doesn't manage to provide to others. I will never know how this work concludes, since it is just a continuation of previous work meant to help fork into new continuations in the future. It is the drawing of a map that was already partially drawn, and that is nowhere near finished yet. It is a call for more people willing to draw.Item The current state of Diné bizaad(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2016) Pearson, Fox Chancellor; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Matthew HermanDiné Bizaad, also known as the Navajo language, is the most common Native American language in the United States. In his research for this thesis, Fox Chancellor Pearson seeks to ascertain for himself the current state of Diné Bizaad. Pearson combines his own observations, living and working both on and bordering the Navajo Nation, with input gathered during interviews with Diné people from diverse walks-of-life. Pearson concludes that Diné Bizaad is still alive and well among Diné elders, but it is in rapid decline among the younger generation.Item Cultural communication problems experienced by Native American students of the Advance by Choice (ABC) program at Montana State University(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1990) Webber, Susan Ann; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Karen C. JacobsonItem An investigation of the roles of family, Catholic religion and the Spanish language in the life of the Mexican-American and their implications in a counseling relationship(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1976) Emerson, Jacqueline CoghlanItem Elementary school curriculum changes necessitated by the addition of foreign language instruction(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1965) Nielsen, Duane AlvahItem Practical application of foreign languages(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1977) Mahn, Gabriela Munoz
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