Mary Belgarde - #13
Series
Scope and Contents
Abstract: 11/6/2012, 11/8/2012, 5/24/2013. In tape one of this interview, Belgarde discusses her educational background and academic struggles. She highlights the importance of student services and the programs that help build capacity and the need to further develop these programs for Native youth. Tape two expands on her professional life and experiences as a counselor and researcher. She offers her perspectives on language immersion programs, community involvement and Native American schools. Tape three examines her various professional roles and time at Stanford. She also discusses Native suicide disparities in relation to assimilation and dislocation. In tape four, Dr. Belgarde talks about strengthening research capacity and resources for Native students. Tape five outlines failures of mainstream education and questions of curriculum. She also discusses impacts of charter schools and their organizing, which she continues into tape six. In tape seven, she discusses her professional work at UNM and perspectives on programs created for and by Native faculty and students.
Dates
- 2012-2015
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, with Native American language interspersed in some of the interviews
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 5 Boxes (44 interviews)
Abstract
Dr. Mary Belgarde (Isleta/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblos) has been a professor in the College of Education at UNM since 1995. She attended New Mexico State University, University of North Dakota and received her doctorate at Stanford University in Education in 1992.
General
Keywords/Topics: Native American Counseling; Education administration; Haskell University; Bureau of Indian Affairs; BIA programs; religion; Upward Bound; Native students at New Mexico State University ; federal funding for Native Americans and tribes; Title V; American Indian Education; language; culture; self-determination; institutional research methods; Turtle-Mountain Community College; Diné College; Stanford University ; Teresa La Fromboise; assimilation; acculturation; identity politics; Bea Medicine; Anne Medicine; Native solidarity; graduate school for Native students; teacher preparation; tribal colleges; Native American faculty; structures of schooling; experiential learning; Native Charter schools; No Child Left Behind; National Alliance of Charter Schools; National Green School Association; American Indian Education; Self Determination of School Choice CD-ROM; Starting and Operating Native American Charter Schools in NM CD-ROM; Indigenous evaluation; funding challenges
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451