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CSP 617 Supporting Native American Students
CSP 617 Supporting Native American Students
CAREER
PLANNING:
NATIVE
AMERICAN
STUDENTS
1830: Indian Removal 1854- 1879: Indian 1887: Dawes Act 1934: Indian 1968: First tribal
Act signed Plain Wars Reservation Act/ Indian college established
New Deal
1838: Trail of 1968: Indian Civil Rights’ Act
Tears 1851: Indian 1924: Indian 1953-1962:
Appropriations Act Citizenship Act Termination
2021: Native
Policy
population is on the
rise
Native Americans
have lost
approximately
99% of the land
they once
occupied
Native American Boarding School Era (1879-1933)
Poverty Employment
3 $19,985
Poverty Based on
4 $25,701
5 $30,459
Ethnicity 6 $34,533
7 $39,194
8 $43,602
2020-2022
(Kao, 2020)
High School
Graduation Rates &
Readiness
Suspensions Expulsions
(The Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative & Community College Equity Assessment Lab, 2019)
From Boarding
Schools to
Suspension
Boards
4. Cross-
3. Cumulative
Generational
Effects
impacts
The impact these effects
The effect the experience have generationally and
has on the group. the different ways the
trauma manifests.
Challenges: Generational Trauma
Counseling Tips & Considerations
Trauma Informed Strength Based and
practices Resilience practices
● CBITS (Cognitive Behavioral ● Motivational Interviewing
Intervention for Trauma in ● MBI’s -Mindfulness Based
Schools) Interventions
● ALIVE model (Animating ○ Native Americans, with a
Learning by Integrating and strong commitment to
Validating Experience their native spirituality,
○ The model begins with exhibit significantly less
psychoeducation suicidal behavior and an
discussions with all shows increase in
students on trauma and motivation than their
how it impacts social,
peers (Le & Gobert,
emotional, academic, and
cognitive domains. 2019).
Burger, Kathryn, "Counseling Interventions for Native American Adolescents" (2019). Counselor Education
Capstones. 100. https://openriver.winona.edu/counseloreducationcapstones/100
American Indian College Fund
Vision Programs
California, U. of. (n.d.). Native American opportunity plan. Native American Opportunity Plan | UC Admissions. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from
https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/types-of-aid/native-american-opportunity-plan.html
Inspirational Statistic
California, U. of. (n.d.). Native American opportunity plan. Native American Opportunity Plan | UC Admissions. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from
https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/tuition-financial-aid/types-of-aid/native-american-opportunity-plan.html
Kao, A. (2020). Health of the first Americans. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, 22(10), 833-836. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.833.
Native Americans in Philanthropy. (2022). History through a Native lens. Investing in Native Communities.
https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org/timeline/sort/event-year_asc_num/era/indian-removal-era-begins/
The Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative & Community College Equity Assessment Lab. (2019). From boarding schools to
suspension boards: Suspensions and expulsions of Native American students in California public schools. Retrieved on October 20,
2022, from http://bmmcoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/From-Boarding-Schools-to-Suspensions-Boards.pdf
U.S. Census Bureau. (2019). Income and poverty in the United States: 2018. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved October 21, 2022, from
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.pdf.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2022). Labor force statistics from the current population survey. U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved October 21,
2022, from https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNU04035243.
Woodward, S. (2018). Native Americans expose the Adoption Era and repair its devastation. Indian Country Today.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/native-americans-expose-the-adoption-era-and-repair-its-devastation#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI
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