Arapaho Language and Culture Immersion Project: Creation of a dual-language immersion school at St Stephen's Indian School (SSIS), Wyoming
Professor Pauline Harris is collaborating with St Stephen's Indian School (SSIS) as a research consultant in 2020 US academic year on the SSIS US Bureau of Indian Education federal grant that is focused on creating a dual-language immersion school at SSIS.
Professor Harris is the project's research leader and consultant on the project at SSIS, with the Northern Arapaho Tribal Council and Community and the Literacy Research Centre and Clinic at the University of Wyoming. The project relates to an Aprapaho Language and Culture immersion Project.
The scope of work includes 1) a research plan (which will include a research timeline), and 2) a 'rules of research grant engagement document' to study the process of developing and enacting a dual-language immersion school (Arapaho/English) at SSIS.
Professor Harris will co-develop a formal way to study the collaborative process in which the SSIS will engage to create their dual-language immersion school.
Professor Harris is engaging in regular Zoom meetings with the three US-based partners engaged in the project, the SSIS, the Arapaho People and the Literacy Research Centre and Clinic at the University of Wyoming.
The partner organisations are:
