Role Models, Mentors, and Native Students: Some Implications for Educators

Abstract

Despite advances in the employment equity arena, the problem of under­ represented minorities among faculty in postsecondary education prevails, par­ticularly with respect to Native people. Since claiming control of Native education, it has been a constant struggle for Native educational administrators to provide qualified Native teachers who have maintained a clear commitment to their heritage and culture, not only to students of postsecondary Native studies pro­grams but also to students of band-controlled schools and Native survival schools...