American Indian Education
Title | American Indian Education PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Reyhner |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2015-01-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0806180404 |
In this comprehensive history of American Indian education in the United States from colonial times to the present, historians and educators Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder explore the broad spectrum of Native experiences in missionary, government, and tribal boarding and day schools. This up-to-date survey is the first one-volume source for those interested in educational reform policies and missionary and government efforts to Christianize and “civilize” American Indian children. Drawing on firsthand accounts from teachers and students, American Indian Education considers and analyzes shifting educational policies and philosophies, paying special attention to the passage of the Native American Languages Act and current efforts to revitalize Native American cultures.
The Status of American Indian Education
Title | The Status of American Indian Education PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert A. Aurbach |
Publisher | |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN |
American Indian Education
Title | American Indian Education PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew L. M. Fletcher |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135908265 |
America Indian culture and traditions have survived an unusual amount of oppressive federal and state educational policies intended to assimilate Indian people and destroy their cultures and languages. Yet, Indian culture, traditions, and people often continue to be treated as objects in the classroom and in the curriculum. Using a critical race theory framework and a unique "counternarrative" methodology, American Indian Education explores a host of modern educational issues facing American Indian peoples—from the impact of Indian sports mascots on students and communities, to the uses and abuses of law that often never reach a courtroom, and the intergenerational impacts of American Indian education policy on Indian children today. By interweaving empirical research with accessible composite narratives, Matthew Fletcher breaches the gap between solid educational policy and the on-the-ground reality of Indian students, highlighting the challenges faced by American Indian students and paving the way for an honest discussion about solutions.
Community Self-Determination
Title | Community Self-Determination PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Laukaitis |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2015-09-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438457707 |
After World War II, American Indians began relocating to urban areas in large numbers, in search of employment. Partly influenced by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this migration from rural reservations to metropolitan centers presented both challenges and opportunities. This history examines the educational programs American Indians developed in Chicago and gives particular attention to how the American Indian community chose its own distinct path within and outside of the larger American Indian self-determination movement. In what John J. Laukaitis terms community self-determination, American Indians in Chicago demonstrated considerable agency as they developed their own programs and worked within already existent institutions. The community-based initiatives included youth programs at the American Indian Center and St. Augustine's Center for American Indians, the Native American Committee's Adult Learning Center, Little Big Horn High School, O-Wai-Ya-Wa Elementary School, Native American Educational Services College, and the Institute for Native American Development at Truman College. Community Self-Determination presents the first major examination of these initiatives and programs and provides an understanding of how education functioned as a form of activism for Chicago's American Indian community.
To Live Heroically
Title | To Live Heroically PDF eBook |
Author | Delores J. Huff |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780791432372 |
Analyzes American Indian education in the last century and compares the tribal, mission, and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools.
Postsecondary Education for American Indian and Alaska Natives: Higher Education for Nation Building and Self-Determination
Title | Postsecondary Education for American Indian and Alaska Natives: Higher Education for Nation Building and Self-Determination PDF eBook |
Author | Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2012-03-20 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1118338839 |
After decades of national, state, and institutional initiatives to increase access to higher education, the college pipeline for American Indian and Alaska Native students remains largely unaddressed. As a result, little is known and even less is understood about the critical isues, conditions, and postsecondary transitions of this diverse group of students. Framed around the concept of tribal nation building, this monograph reviews the research on higher education for Indigenous peoples in the United States. It offers an analysis of what is currently known about postsecondary education among Indigenous students, Native communities, and tribal nations. Also offered is an overview of the concept of tribal nation building, with the suggestion that future research, policy, and practice center the ideas of nation building, sovereignty, Indigenous knowledge systems, and culturally responsive schooling.
Fools Crow
Title | Fools Crow PDF eBook |
Author | James Welch |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140089370 |
In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence