Indian subjects : hemispheric perspectives on the history of indigenous education

Child, Brenda J., 1959- (editor.).

Summary: Indian Subjects brings together an outstanding group of scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, law, education, literature, and Native studies to address indigenous education throughout different regions and eras. While histories of the devastating impact of boarding schools - and Native responses to those schools - have dominated academic and community views of indigenous educational history (and some appear in this volume, as well), the valuable lessons from these boarding school histories in the United States and Canada nonetheless provide a fairly narrow view of indigenous educational experiences. Indian Subjects pushes beyond that history toward hemispheric and even global conversations, fostering a critically neglected scholarly dialogue that has too often been limited by regional and national boundaries. Many of the contributors to Indian Subjects tackle educational experiences of their own communities, and all of them provide insightful analysis of events and structures that need to be incorporated more fully into the history of indigenous peoples and education.

Record details

ISBN: 1938645162
ISBN: 9781938645167
ISBN: 1938645162
ISBN: 1938645170
ISBN: 9781938645174
Physical Description: print
xii, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Santa Fe, New Mexico : School for Advanced Research Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-319) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Comparing Histories of Education for Indigenous Peoples / Brenda J. Child and Brian Klopotek -- Domesticating Hawaiians: Kamehameha Schools and the "Tender Violence" of Marriage / Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua -- Indian Education under Jim Crow / Brian Klopotek -- Creating Wage Workers: Indigenous Boarding Schools in Rural Yucatán, Mexico / M. Bianet Castellanos -- The Economy of Indian Education in California, 1902-1945 / William J. Bauer Jr. -- Guiding Principles: Guswenta and the Debate over Formal Schooling at Buffalo Creek, 1800-1811 / Alyssa Mt. Pleasant -- Worlds Apart: A History of Native Education in Alaska / Roy M. Huhndorf and Shari M. Huhndorf -- "All Our People Are Building Houses": The Civilization of Architecture and Space in Federal Indian Boarding Schools / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Encounters with Interculturalidad: Indigenous Education and the Politics of Knowledge in the Andes / María Elena García -- Canadian Law Schools and Indigenous Legal Traditions / John Borrows -- "Yaletüsü Saaschin Woumain (Glory to the Brave People)": Flor Ángela Palmar Barroso's Creative Strategies to Indigenize Education in Venezuela / Laura R. Graham and Flor Ángela Palmar Barroso -- The Boarding School as Metaphor / Brenda J. Child.