Boarding School Blues
Boarding School Blues

Author: Clifford E. Trafzer

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780803294639

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An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.

Perversions of Justice
Perversions of Justice

Author: Ward Churchill

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780872864115

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Examines the faulty "reasoning" employed to legislate colonial control over North America's indigenous peoples and their lands.

Cultivating the Rosebuds
Cultivating the Rosebuds

Author: Devon A. Mihesuah

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1997-01-15

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780252066771

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Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education. Devon Mihesuah explores its curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy. Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. 24 photos.

Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues

Author: Duane Champagne

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0585201269

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Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer experiences and perspectives from a variety of Native settings. Topics include identity, gender, the powwow, mass media, health and environmental issues. This book and its companion volume, Contemporary Native American Political Issues, edited by Troy R. Johnson, are ideal teaching tools for instructors in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and anthropology, and important resources for anyone working in or with Native communities.

American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930

Author: Michael C. Coleman

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781604730098

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Drawn from Native American autobiographical accounts, a study revealing white society's program of civilizing American Indian schoolchildren

American Indian Education
American Indian Education

Author: Jon Reyhner

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2015-01-07

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0806180404

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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 Native American Identity in Sports
The Native American Identity in Sports

Author: Frank A. Salamone

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0810887088

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This collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to shaping and expressing Native American identity-from the attempt of the old Indian Schools to "Americanize" Native Americans through sport to the "Indian mascot" controversy and what it says about the broader publ...