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Tachine, Amanda R. – Teachers College Press, 2022
What is at stake when our young people attempt to belong to a college environment that reflects a world that does not want them for who they are? In this compelling book, Navajo scholar Amanda Tachine takes a personal look at 10 Navajo teenagers, following their experiences during their last year in high school and into their first year in…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Tribal Sovereignty, High School Seniors
K. Tsianina Lomawaima; Teresa L. McCarty – Teachers College Press, 2024
"To Remain an Indian" traces the footprints of Indigenous education in what is now the United States. Native Peoples' educational systems are rooted in ways of knowing and being that have endured for millennia, despite the imposition of colonial schooling. In this second edition, the authors amplify their theoretical framework of settler…
Descriptors: Democracy, American Indian Education, Tribal Sovereignty, Tribally Controlled Education
Proudfit, Joely, Ed.; Myers-Lim, Nicole Quinderro, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017
"On Indian Ground: California" is the first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education. The focus of this text is the 110 tribes in California and the best practices available to educators of native students in K-16. This volume explores the history of California Indian education as well as…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Hawaiians
Sando, Joe S. – 1998
This book tells the stories of over 30 political leaders, educators, and artists who took part in the events that have shaped Pueblo Indian life. It aims to portray successful Pueblo people that could inspire and motivate Indian students and to inform non-Indian students and readers about the contributions of Pueblo Indians to their communities…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrators, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Warrior, Robert Allen – 1995
This book is a comparative interpretation of the works of Vine Deloria, Jr., (Standing Rock Sioux) and John Joseph Mathews (Osage), two American Indian intellectuals of this century. In bringing these two thinkers together, the book lays the groundwork for a discussion of several crucial issues in contemporary American Indian critical studies: (1)…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies, American Indians
O'Brien, Sharon – 1989
This book describes the struggle of American Indian tribes and their governments to achieve the goals of freedom and tribal sovereignty. Part 1 provides a case study of the Mississippi Choctaws and their efforts to reestablish their tribal government, and introduces the structure, function, and values of the traditional governments of the…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Elementary Secondary Education
Arden, Harvey; Wall, Steve – 1990
This book documents meetings with Native American elders who shared their tribal stories of origin, sacred traditions, social life and customs, and traditional wisdom. The idea for the book began when a Cherokee medicine man requested that his tribal knowledge be documented for future generations. For the past 10 years, the spiritual elders of…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Kidwell, Clara Sue – 1995
This book relates the history of the Choctaw Nation before and after the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forced some Mississippi Choctaw to flee to Oklahoma. Some Choctaws nonetheless chose to remain in Mississippi, and today the tribe occupies eight reservation communities scattered throughout that state. The book constitutes a case study of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Utter, Jack – 1993
This book aims to fill part of the gap that exists between commonly held misconceptions and the realities of American Indian history and modern life. Part I discusses the "doctrine of discovery," a European legal theory invented to justify the acquisition of Indian lands, and explains why the issue of discovery has had so great an impact…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Pevar, Stephen L. – 1983
Published in cooperation with the American Civil Liberties Union, the guide sets forth the rights of American Indians under the present law and offers suggestions on how these rights can be protected. Using a question and answer format, the book covers the changes in Indian policies from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the present day,…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights
McLoughlin, William G. – 1995
This book describes the crucial role missionaries played in the acculturation and "Americanization" of the Cherokee Indians from 1789 to 1839. The book compares the methods, successes, and failures of the Moravians, Presbyterians, Congegrationalists, Baptists, and Methodists in their attempts to Christianize the Cherokees. Each…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Price, Monroe E. – 1973
Another in the Contemporary Legal Education Series, this book questions how the law and the legal system have contributed to the support or destruction of separatist tendencies "in a context where there has been a rather formal debate on the precise issues of assimilation and preservation of cultural identity". The book is designed (1)…
Descriptors: American Indians, Court Litigation, Economic Development, Federal Indian Relationship
Dyck, Noel – 1997
This book details the history of Indian residential schooling in the Prince Albert region of Saskatchewan from the early 19th century to 1995. Following a foreword by Grand Chief Alphonse Bird of the Prince Albert Grand Council, the book overviews the five distinct institutional periods of Indian residential schooling in Saskatchewan: (1)…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives
Senese, Guy B. – 1991
This book is a critical analysis of the concept of self-determination as it has been developed in the federal government's American Indian social and educational policies since the 1950s. Analyses focus on the links between Indian educational policy and economic development concerns and on the ways in which the idealistic language of…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Economic Development, Educational Policy
Philp, Kenneth R. – 1977
For many years federal government policy sought to break up Indian communal land holdings, destroy tribal communities, and absorb Indians into the mainstream of American Society. This policy changed dramatically in the 1920's and 30's, and John Collier stands at the forefront of those responsible. Collier questioned the wisdom of a policy which…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Pluralism, Culture Conflict