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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... Cherokee had " supposed that non - Christian nations , given the oppor- tunity to learn English , would embrace it promptly . " Late - nineteenth- century reformers felt that assimilation could be accomplished quickly if the Indians ...
... Cherokee to walk the " Trail of Tears " west- ward across the Mississippi River to what is now Oklahoma . Putting their lives back together in what was promised as their new permanent homeland , the Cherokee started their own schools ...
... Cherokee town . But the newly independent United States had no more success controlling frontier whites than had the British . Speculators , settlers , traders , and trappers often took advantage of Indians , who would then retaliate ...
... Cherokee operated by the United Brethren , fifteen schools for the Cherokee and Choctaw operated by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions , four schools for the Cherokee and Creek run 44 AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION.
A History Jon Reyhner, Jeanne Eder. Missions , four schools for the Cherokee and Creek run by the Baptists , and one school run by the Catholic Church ( ARCIA 1824 ) . McKenney declared optimistically that school superintendents ...
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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