Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Brothertown Depending upon location and community

Depending upon location and community

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Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Brothertown Depending upon location and communityIndigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent English only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in