Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students’ community and incorporate them into the curriculum

“In this kaleidoscopic story

What really happened that night at the lake

When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family's camp to gather beans for the long

This Wound is a World

Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America stories Indigenous students learn and retainBefore European settlers arrived in North America, more than 300 distinct languages were being spoken among the continent's Indigenous peoples. But the Euro American emphasis on alphabetic literacy has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous verbal and nonverbal language diversity on encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers. In this pathbreaking work, Phillip H. Round reveals how Native North Americans sparked a