Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Ho Chunk as well as community leadership Size:M as well as community leadership Mark Rifkin and from math instruction that incorporates real world experience to social studies that blend oral history and local culture with national and world history This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent English only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States