Scope and Content Note
The Denis Viri Papers include material he collected while working at ASU in the Center for Indian Education and other positions he held outside of ASU. The collection includes national, local and tribal newspapers, curriculum material, grant proposals, conference brochures, Hotevilla Bacavi Community School, and classroom work/curriculum from various tribes including Ute, Navajo, Hopi, Yaqui, and First Nations.
Dates
- Creation: 1968-2015
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of the Arizona State University Library. Requests to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.
Biographical Note
Dr. Denis Viri is Research Professor Emeritus. He has worked in the field of Indigenous education for over 30 years as a social scientist-researcher who applies anthropological field methods to the study of educational settings and contexts. In his 10-year career with the ASU Center for Indian Education, he was the Associate Editor of the Journal of American Indian Education, which has been in continuous publication since 1961. Besides teaching and administrative experience on the Hopi (1975-1981) and Pascua Yaqui (1981-1983) Indian communities in Arizona, Dr. Viri has worked extensively with schools and tribal agencies on the Tohono O'odham, Navajo, Colorado River, Gila River, Ft. Mojave, and Ute Indian reservations. His work and research interests have also taken him to Indigenous communities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Khakasia, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Argentina. He also served previously as an English language teacher in the Peace Corps in the Somali Republic (1969-1970) and a teacher training/health and nutrition project in Tamil Nadu, India (1971). Dr. Viri received his Ph.D in 1989 from the University of Arizona, completing a dissertation entitled Subjective Realities of American Indian Students in an Urban Community College Setting: A Tohono O'odham Case Study. His recent publications include:
- Viri, D. F., (2008).
The Status of American Indian Languages Today.
In J. M. Gonzalez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education. Volume 1, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. - Viri, D. F., (2008).
Boarding Schools and Native Languages
. In J. M. Gonzalez (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. - Beaulieu, D. A., Figueira, A, M., Viri, D. F., (2006)
Indigenous Teacher Education: Research-Based Model
in P. L. Jeffery (Ed), 2005) published by Australian Association for Research in Education. Parramatta, NSW. Available http://www.aare.edu.au/05pap/vir05321.pdf - Viri, D. F., Benally, A. (2005)
Dine Bizaad (Navajo language) at a Crossroads: Extinction or Renewal?
Bilingual Education Research Journal. 29(1) 85-108 - Trujillo, O, Viri, D. F., Figueira, A. M. and Manuelito, K (2005)
Educators Interface with Culture and Language in Schooling
. (pp. 2274-2284) In J. Cohen, K T. McAlister, K. Rolstad, and J MacSwan (Eds) ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press - Viri, D. F. (2003)
Standards in American Indian/Alaska Native Education: Preparing Native and non-Native Teachers for Variable Contexts
. In D. McInerney and S Van Etten (Eds), Sociocultural Influences on Teacher Education, Volume 3, Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishing
Dr. Viri served as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer at Loro Core Primary Teacher's College in Northern Uganda in 2010-11 and has recently completed additional volunteer teaching assignments at Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo in Pachuca, Mexico. (quoted from Viri's ASU Directory Profile at https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/206942).
Full extent
1 Box(es)
Full extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
The Denis Viri Papers include material he collected while working at ASU in the Center for Indian Education. The collection includes tribal newspapers, curriculum material, and classroom work.
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single box.
Provenance
Denis Viri donated these materials to the Labriola Center in 2015 (Accession #2015-04880).
- Title
- Denis Viri Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Trudie Jackson in 2016.
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Labriola National American Indian Data Center Repository