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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... Program of Eastern Montana College ( now Montana State University - Billings ) in 1989. Parts of chapter 8 appeared in Reyhner's essay " Teaching English to the Indians , " which appeared in Learn in Beauty : Indigenous Education for a ...
... Program at the Smithsonian Institution , recalled that in 1952 he passed an Indian school whose motto was , " Tradition Is the Enemy of Progress . " Under that motto students were forced to speak only Eng- lish and sometimes had their ...
... programs that emphasize student advocacy . Cummins calls for a move from a subtractive assim- ilationist approach to education to an additive bilingual " English Plus " approach . According to Fedullo , [ Successful educators ] ...
... programs have a num- ber of disadvantages : they increase students ' boredom , and they pull students out of ... programs instead of cul- turally appropriate programs . High school students get tracked into non - college - bound ...
... programs in Indian schools exist and why certain curricula are more likely to lead to success , they must know about the past failures and successes of Indian education . They must know the roots of Indian resistance to schooling and ...
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 |