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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... called for culturally appropriate teaching methods and materials, including instruction and materials in the students' Native languages. In the last decades of the twentieth century there was danger on several fronts to linguistically ...
... 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 Clyde Kluckhohn ( 1962 , 340 ) wrote ...
... called by the multicul- tural educator Sonia Nieto ( 1992 ) " mutual accommodation " through education . MAINTAINING TRIBAL LANGUAGES AND CULTURES There is a long history of opposition to forced assimilation , including efforts to ...
... called for culturally appropriate teaching methods and materials , including instruction and materials in the students ' Native languages . In the last decades of the twentieth century there was danger on sev- eral fronts to ...
... called Indian education " a national tragedy , " there have always been Indian students who are eager to learn and responsive teachers , Indian and white , who have worked to overcome Indian resistance to schooling and to meet the ...
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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