Secondary education and public archeology as a tool for teaching science, literacy and interpersonal relations across demograhic boundaries

塔纳纳酋长会议（TCC）是一个土著非营利组织，积极参与各种教育和土地管理方案，通过这些方案，它向阿拉斯加处境极为不利的土著阿萨巴斯卡部落和个人提供联邦政府资助的政府服务。 拟议的项目是TCC开发的创新计划的延伸，该计划通过考古实地研究的媒介增加了高危青年的教育成果。 TCC方法将学生参与为期一周的科学考察与在阿拉斯加荒野环境中的指导学习相结合。 通过设计，该领域和学习情况是情感上强烈的，在某种程度上，点燃个人的承诺和培养小团体的社会团结。 同样通过设计，TCC从多种族，多文化的人口库中吸引学生和教师。 通过这种方式，学生从一系列世界观和行为期望中收集和综合有效的学习风格。 这种方法还推进了TCC的第二个目标，即通过考古研究管理《国家历史保护法》规定的文化资源。 根据部队派遣国目前的提议，这些与目标有关的活动将扩大，每年夏天为阿拉斯加更多教育机构的中学生和本科生提供更多的课程。

Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) is a Native non-profit organization that is actively engaged in a variety of educational and land management programs through which it delivers federally funded government services to highly disadvantaged indigenous Athabaskan tribes and individuals in Alaska. The proposed project is an extension of a TCC developed innovative program that increases educational outcomes for at-risk youth through the medium of archaeological field research. The TCC approach combines student participation in weeklong scientific expeditions with guided study in Alaskan wilderness settings. By design, the field and learning situation are emotionally intense, in a way that kindles individual commitment and nurture small-group social solidarity. Also by design, TCC draws the student and instructor cohorts from a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural demographic pool. In this way, students gather and synthesize effective learning styles from a range of worldviews and behavioral expectations. This approach also advances a second,TCC goal, the management of cultural resources mandate under the National Historic Preservation Act through archaeological research. Under TCCs present proposal, these goal related activities will expand by offering more sessions each summer to secondary and undergraduate students from a greater number of educational institutions in Alaska.