Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd Recent documents in Jeffrey P Shepherd en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 07:06:20 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/5 http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/5 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:59:30 PDT This article provides a narrative analysis of the history of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University. As the premier center for native educational issues, the CIE played a crucial role in raising awareness about educational disparities on Indian reservations. The Center trained thousands of future teachers that have built lasting educational systems for native children across the country. In addition, the CIE shaped state and national educational policy by playing a historic role in the civil rights activities of the 1960s and 1970s. Today, the Center continues to contribute to educational training and policy across the state and country. Jeffrey P. Shepherd Native American Studies http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/4 http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/4 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:42:40 PDT This article analyzes a language revitalization program implemented in an elementary classroom on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, outside of Phoenix, Arizona. The authors created the program under the assumption that classroom pedagogy cannot help students learn their native language without everyday usage of the O'odham and Pipash languages at home. The authors provide the social and historical context for the community, and the language policies applied to the two tribes, and then they provide a detailed look at strenghts and weaknesses of implementing a language community model in the classroom. In addition, the authors discuss the importance of family, non-school involvement with elementary student language acquisition. Jeffrey P. Shepherd Native American Studies http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/3 http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/3 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:43:11 PDT This article discusses several innovative approaches to teaching U.S. History in undergraduate classrooms. It argues that history teachers can engage students in dialogues about the past if they use more interactive forms of pedagogy. Role-playing, historical re-enactment, debate, and other creative formats will simultaneously enrich the classroom experience and strengthen students critical thinking and writing skills. Teachers interested in content do not have to sacrifice "the facts" for dynamic and stimulating--even exciting--approaches to U.S. history. Jeffrey P. Shepherd Teaching http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/2 http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/2 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:04:54 PDT Increasingly, scholars are exploring the complex interplay between economic change and cultural identity, in which native communities and individuals respond creatively to the challenges post by captialism and wage labor. Utilizing political economy as an interpretive framework, this essay explores the ways Hualapais incorporated changes around them into their worldviews and agendas. In doing so, it moves beyond questions of agency and adapptation, persistence and innovation, to suggest that scholars consider how "incorporation," frequently seen as a unidirectional, not to mention wholly destructive, phenomenon, can in fact me multifaceted and constructive. Jeffrey P. Shepherd Native American History http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/1 http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey_shepherd/1 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:24:32 PDT This essay argues that the colonization of the Americas involved not only physical and economic dimensions, but also spatial and historical components. As the Hualapai in Arizona contested colonization, they presented myriad forms of their own history in an effort to remain tied to traditional landscapes. However, as they articulated these histories, they implicitly accepted a metanarrative of their own past that reflected the modernist tropes of nationalism and cultural essentialism. Although they successfully held onto their reservation they simultaneously created an ambiguous legacy rooted in self-determination and contradictory strands of historical memory. Their anti-colonial resistance thwarted the extremes of conquest and exemplified their sense of peoplehood just as much as it demonstrated the multiple and contending layers of story-telling and sense of place. Jeffrey P. Shepherd Native American Studies