Date of Award:

5-1955

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Department name when degree awarded

Education

Committee Chair(s)

John C. Carlisle

Committee

John C. Carlisle

Committee

T. R. Black

Committee

D. R. Stone

Abstract

Union High School is located in Roosevelt, Utah, on the Uintah and Duchesne county line.

Students come to Union High School from an area of approximately 30 miles radius around Roosevelt. Included in this area is the Ouray and Uintah Indian reservation.

There are approximately 125 full-blood and mixed-blood Indians who should be attending Union High School. The greater majority of these students live on the reservation named above.

Since 1951, when the majority of the Ute Indian students were transferred from the Indian school, there has been a closer association of full-blood Indian, mixed-blood Indian, and white students. With the association of these groups there has been growing very grave problems that are now beginning to come to the surface. Because of the differences in background it would seem there would be differences arising among these three groups.

This study will be concerned mainly with this question throughout: Are the full-blood Indians and mixed-blood Indians adjusting educationally as rapidly as are the native whites? This study will also be concerned with the following problems:

  1. Achievement of the groups as shown by achievement tests.
  2. Achievement of the groups as shown by teachers' grades.
  3. Attendance of the groups at school.
  4. Detailed analysis of the strong and weak points of the groups.

In order for these groups to take their rightful place in school life the many problems confronting them will have to be sought out and then solved if these groups are to be on an equal level of learning.

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