American Indian Education: A HistoryUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2006 - 370 pages 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.
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... cultural assimilation of the continent's indigenous peoples through schooling , and it chronicles their resistance to as well as cooperation with these efforts under extreme conditions . In what the demographer Russell Thornton ( 1987 ) ...
... culture was repeatedly questioned by Native Americans — and sometimes even by their white teachers . Still , its accomplishment seemed inevitable as over the course of four centuries foreign diseases and superior organiza- tion and ...
... culture by immersing students in an all- English environment in boarding schools often led to cultural disinte- gration , not cultural replacement . Students returned to their families unprepared to resume their tribal life but unable ...
... CULTURES There is a long history of opposition to forced assimilation , including efforts to maintain tribal languages and cultures . Sequoyah , a Cher- okee , developed a syllabary in the early 1800s so that his people could write ...
... Cultural Literacy : What Every American Needs to Know . This movement , with its emphasis on teaching mainstream Euro - American culture , jeopardized the teaching of non- Western , non - European , non - Judeo - Christian heritages in ...
Contents
Colonial Missionaries and Their Schools | 14 |
Treaties and Western Removal 17761867 | 40 |
Reservations 18671887 | 59 |
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 |
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American Indian Education: A History Jon Allan Reyhner,Jeanne M. Oyawin Eder No preview available - 2017 |