Native American Social Issues Paper

I chose the lack of education Native American face as my paper topic include information about the boarding school era in the United States in order to understand the lack of education among Native Americans. 

You must include a reference list and those pages are not included in the length requirement. Please begin learning how to use APA style as soonLinks to an external site. as possible. There are many websites that can help you learn APALinks to an external site..

Use this paper assignment to better understand the details of some social service issue for American Indians/Native Americans (see topics below). Each paper should be on one topic, but it may be related to other topics as well. 

This paper must be done using APA paper style. You may wish to include a cover page and or an abstract, but they are not required. You may simply begin your paper with the heading used for all course assignments as stated below under Course Expectations and Policy Statements. You must include a reference list and those pages are not included in the length requirement. Please begin learning how to use APA style as soon as possible. I give several websites on the course Canvas site to help you learn APA style.

Your paper should be 5 - 7 pages in length (failure to write at least 5 pages will impact your grade significantly) and you must use APA format (the cover page and reference list should not be counted in the required number of pages). Your paper must be individually written and will be assigned an individual grade. You must use 3 or 4 peer-reviewed articles. Do not rely on articles that are part of this course’s assigned readings and/or other class-assigned materials. Failure to use outside materials (those not discussed in class) will result in a failing grade.

Steps to a successful paper: 1) select 3 or 4 peer-reviewed articles on the same topic; 2) introduce your topic using only the selected papers to summarize what is known about how the issue comes about or occurs in a Native American community; 3) discuss how many Native Americans are impacted by the issue – use the articles you have selected to report this information. Your article authors should have a statement or section of their article that reports the rate of the problem/topic within the US or Canadian Native American population Links to an external site. or the articles you selected should state why it is not easy to estimate how widespread the issues or problems are; 4) report what your article authors report as the solution to addressing the problem or issue to reduce the problem in Native people or communities. Use subtitles to make sure you addressed each section of the requirements for the paper. Make sure that you are referencing all authors you are citing in the paper; 5) End your paper with a brief summation of your major findings during this process; 6) always include an APA-style reference list at the end of your papers.

The paper for this course must address these issues for NA/AI populations.

Be careful about citing sources. Plagiarism – if you paraphrase or use any part of someone else’s work you must cite their work in your paper. Citations must appear in the body of the paper and in the reference list.

Be careful to choose articles that are current. Using articles that are more than 20 years old will not help you understand what we know about topics today.