Word: begay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature of popular culture to continuously view Natives in the past tense," Begay says, adding that with such misconceptions, even well-meaning people need "a certain amount of education before receptiveness becomes a reality...
...Begay argues that these rates fail to reflect that far higher numbers of Native Americans actually enter higher education--and then drop out. He says this is because many Native Americans are only beginning to feel comfortable in an alien educational system...
Graham and Begay are among the class' many lecturers, while Carpenter and Wilson are two of its teaching fellows...
...entire program stemmed from the Native American self-determination movement of the 1960s and '70s. The movement culminated in the 1975 Self-Determination Act, which Begay says allocated more funding for Native American students and made it the reservations' mandate for every youth to go to college...
...generation is the first generation which has had the opportunity for a full higher education," Begay says. "Things are changing tremendously...