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Volunteering: Navajo Nation Schools |
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Program Number: |
6262RJ |
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| Duration: |
6 nights |
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Cameron, Arizona
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| Price starting at: |
$695.00 - Price may vary based on date, departure city |
| Program Type:
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Service Learning; Native American Studies
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| Meals: |
17;
6 Breakfasts, 5 Lunches, 6 Dinners |
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| Meal
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Vegetarian |
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Assist the students and educators in schools on the Navajo Reservation, where many families burn wood for warmth, haul water and use generators for electricity. The only requirement is a flexible and adaptable nature
Highlights
• Explore the rewards of helping students and working with teachers.
• Enjoy a field trip to a traditional Navajo Hogan.
• Evening programs on Navajo culture provide additional insight.
Weeks split among Navajo Nation Schools in Cameron and Tuba City. Grades K-8, depending on week chosen. Volunteers at Gray Mountain and Eagle’s Nest must bring fingerprint clearance card issued by Arizona Department of Public Safety. Identity Verified Prints packet sent by provider after enrollment. Estimated added cost to participant: $75 to $85. Application processing takes at least eight weeks.
Date Specific Information
10-13-2013
Program takes place at Tuba City Boarding School (Grades 7-8). No fingerprint clearance card required. Monday, 10/14, is a school holiday so the visit to the Navajo hogan and other cultural-based educational activities will take place on this day. Participants will work in the school Tuesday-Friday.
10-20-2013, 2-9-2014
Program takes place at Gray Mountain Elementary School (K-6). Fingerprint clearance card required. See note above.
10-27-2013, 2-23-2014
Program takes place at Eagle's Nest Intermediate School, grades 4-6. Fingerprint clearance card required. See note above.
11-3-2013, 3-2-2014
Program takes place at Tuba City Boarding School (Grades 7-8).
Coordinated by Northern Arizona University.
Cameron
Named after Ralph Cameron, a U.S. senator who owned several copper mines, the town sits 80 miles south of Page in the Painted Desert and is on the Navajo Indian Reservation. To reach his mines, the senator created the Bright Angel Trail in 1899, which has since become one of the most popular hiking trails on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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Accommodations
Historic Trading Post and Lodge on the banks of the Little Colorado River. Sandstone courtyard gardens designed and planted in the 1930s; antique Native American art gallery. Easy driving access to Grand Canyon South Rim.
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| Road Scholar Instructors | | These instructors are participating on at least one date of this program. Please note that changes may occur. | Richard Stephens
| | Rich has been director of Northern Arizona University’s highly popular Road Scholar programs since 2001. He previously spent many years in the field as a program coordinator and group leader, where he honed his skills and learned the importance of detailed, pre-trip planning. Before making his home in Arizona’s spectacular red-rock country, Rich spent 10 years in Yosemite National Park and the Santa Cruz mountains as an environmental educator. | | | | Rosie Horsen
| | Rosie Horsen is full-blooded Navajo and grew up on the reservation, the oldest of eight children, in Gray Mountain, Ariz. She attended Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools from the age of seven through high school in both Tuba City and in Phoenix. She resides in Cameron on the southwestern corner of the Navajo reservation, in view of the San Francisco Peaks. She has been coordinating tutoring service programs in reservation schools since 1997. | | | | James Bilagody
| | James Bilagody has been entertaining Road Scholar participants with his stories, wit, and music for many years. He has twice been nominated for the Native American Music Awards, as well as having received consideration for a Grammy Award. Skilled in both percussion and guitar, James is able to fuse traditional Navajo storytelling and culture into a modern perspective and sound.
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