id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3718 Ethnic studies - Wikipedia .html text/html 7622 732 54 Native American Studies, or sometimes named Native Studies or American Indian Studies, is another branch of ethnic studies which was established as a result of university student protest and community activism.[18] The first attempts at establishing some form of Native American Studies came in 1917 from Oklahoma Senator Robert Owen, who called for an 'Indian Studies' program at the University of Oklahoma.[19] Several decades later, the "Red Power" Movement of the 1960s, in a time of high minority and suppressed group activism in the US, sought to get Native American Studies into higher education.[20] San Francisco State University and University of California at Berkeley were the first to adopt these fields into their departments in 1968.[20] The TCU (tribal colleges and universities) movement of the 1960s aimed to expand the teaching of Native American Studies by establishing tribe-run universities to educate the tribe's youth and their communities.[21] Navajo Community College, later renamed Diné College, was the first of these institutions.[21] Curriculum in Native American Studies programs teach the historical, cultural and traditional aspects of both natives of the land in general, as well as that of the American Indians specifically.[18] Figures within Native American Studies include Vine Deloria Jr., an American Indian scholar and rights' activist,[22] Paula Gunn Allen who was a writer and educator of Native American Studies,[23] poet Simon J. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3718.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3718.txt