American Indian Education: A HistoryIn 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.
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... Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA ) . He would also like to acknowledge his wife , Marie , who has stood by him for more than three decades while he learned about Navajo life . Her experiences as a student at a BIA school in Leupp ...
... Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1947 ) called for a school curriculum based on " local Indian life , or at least written within the scope of the child's early experi- ences " ( Meriam 1928 , 33 ) . And more recently , the anthropologist ...
... Bureau ( see chap . 8 ) was told repeatedly by missionaries that their " real difficulties " lay with " sinister white influences " rather than with the Indians . CATHOLIC MISSIONS After 1492 , the Spanish sought both to exploit Indians ...
... Bureau and served from 1869 to 1871. Denied entrance to law school because he was not a citizen , a privilege then denied Indians , he chose civil engineering as an alternative ( Vogel 1972 ) . In 1869 Grant also established the Board ...
... Bureau wrote the following year about Nebraskans was true elsewhere in the West : The people of that portion of Nebraska which is contiguous to the Santee reservation are clamoring for the removal of that tribe of Indians . There is no ...
Contents
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Allotment and Dependency 18871924 | 81 |
Mission Schools | 112 |
Government Boarding Schools | 132 |
Students and Parents | 168 |
A New Deal 19241944 | 205 |
Termination and Relocation 19441969 | 232 |
SelfDetermination 19691989 | 251 |
Higher Education | 290 |
New Directions in Indian Education 19892003 | 308 |
Entering the TwentyFirst Century | 323 |
References | 331 |
Index | 357 |
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