Sean Chandler

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  www.tribalcollegejournal.org/thompson_honoring.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/6/2009    Last Visited: 3/6/2009  

  Sean Chandler (Gros Ventre), director of Native Studies at Fort Belknap College (FBC, Harlem, MT), readily acknowledges that his students respect "the oral-traditional" over the literary. He agrees that Native people as a whole do not privilege writing as mainstream society does.
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  One text that Chandler holds in high regard is The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge: as told by his daughter, Garter Snake.
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  Chandler addressed a common theme among the instructors I spoke with - the Western bias against the oral transmission of history. "There is a mainstream misconception that oral histories are inaccurate," he says, "but they should remember that the persons who told the stories, they were experts.

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  tribalcollegejournal.org/themag/backissues/winter2007/w - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/19/2007    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  Fort Belknap College Native American Studies Director Sean Chandler sent us photos of elders he has worked with and recorded - some of the last remaining Gros Ventre speakers in his community.

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  Published on: 1/17/2005    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  The 2005-2006 nominees are (left to right, back row) Lola Doore, Sean Chandler, Larry Blacksmith, and Samantha Cameron; (front row) Karita Coffey, Francine McDonald, Burt Medicine Bull, and Melissa Cook.
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  They are: Larry Blacksmith (Crow), dean of administration at Little Big Horn College; Diana Canku (Sisseton-Wahpeton), chief administrative officer at Sisseton Wahpeton College ; Sean Chandler (Gros Ventre), director of American Indian Studies Department at Fort Belknap College ;

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  www.tribalcollegejournal.org/themag/backissues/winter20 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/19/2007    Last Visited: 11/8/2007  

  Fort Belknap College Native American Studies Director Sean Chandler sent us photos of elders he has worked with and recorded , some of the last remaining Gros Ventre speakers in his community.

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  29 Executives Named Kellogg MSI Leadership Fellows... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/2005    Last Visited: 5/15/2009  

  Sean Chandler, American Indian Studies Department Head Fort Belknap College (MT), AIHEC

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  Fort Belknap Celebrates Survival of Indian Culture - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/27/2005    Last Visited: 7/2/2007  

  Sean Chandler, head of the Native American Studies Department at Fort Belknap College, gave a slide presentation featuring historic images of tribal members and ancestral life on the reservation.

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  Little Shell Tribe - [Cached Version]
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  Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribal council members participated in Fort Belknap Community College tribal studies professor Sean Chandler's video interviews.

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  Local News - Great Falls Tribune -... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/3/2005    Last Visited: 9/3/2005  

  Sean Chandler, who heads the Native American Studies Department at Fort BelknapCollege, and Lola Doore, administrative specialist to the president at Blackfeet Community College in Browning, are among nine fellows chosen for the training.
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  Chandler, 34, has been teaching at Fort Belknap College since 2002.He aspires to become a tribal college administrator, according to a news release from the consortium.

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  Last Visited: 4/11/2007  

  Sean Chandler, Fort Belknap College

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  NIEA - National Indian Education Association - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/5/2008    Last Visited: 11/1/2009  

  Sean Chandler and Lynette Stein-Chandler didn't grow up speaking the White Clay language, but they're devoted to preserving it on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in northern Montana.
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  Sean teaches the White Clay language and culture at the school. He's also department head of Native American Studies and director of the Tribal History Project at Fort Belknap College where the immersion school is located.
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  Sean Chandler said the White Clay language contains tribal philosophies, as well. The word for "chief," for example, doesn't necessarily mean leader, but "generous man." "That right there tells you what our way of thinking was," Chandler said. "It wasn't the guy who had everything, but the guy who was kind of a benefactor, who looked out for everybody. Chandler is a White Clay Indian who lived most of his life off the reservation.

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