Education and the American Indian : the road to self-determination since 1928

Summary: "First published in 1974, Education and the American Indian has been widely praised as the first full-length study of federal Indian education. This revised edition brings the book up to date through 1998 with the addition of analysis and interpretation of trends and policies that have shaped Indian education in the 1980s and 1990s and will persist into the twenty-first century. In looking ahead, one Yankton Sioux forecasts that "within two generations we will see some of the most educated people in the world and they will be on reservations." How this optimistic assessment might become a reality is one of the major themes of this revised edition."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0826320481
ISBN: 9780826320483
Physical Description: print
xvii, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: Thirs Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
Publisher: Albuquerque, NM : University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Federal Indian Education, 1870-1926 -- 3. W. Carson Ryan: From the Meriam Report to the Indian New Deal -- 4. John Collier and Willard Walcott Beatty: New Deal Architects of Education -- 5. New Deal Innovations: Progressive Education and Anthropology -- 6. Theory Confronts Reality: Cross-Cultural Education -- 7. Training Teachers for Cross-Cultural Education -- 8. The Johnson -- O'Malley Act: Indian Children and Public Schools, 1928-1945 -- 9. World War II and the Postwar Years -- 10. Hildegard Thompson: Education for an Urban, Technological Society -- 11. New Directions in Federal Control -- 12. Indian Organization and Leadership -- 13. Indian-Controlled Schools -- 14. Indian Children and Public Schools: 1945-1972 -- 15. Federal Policy and Indian Education: 1928-1977 -- 16. The Indian Voice: 1980s-1990s -- App. 2. American Indian Higher Education Consortium -- App. 3. Executive Order: American Indian and Alaska Native Education (1998) -- App. 4. Federal Administrators: BIA and Department of Education -- App. 5. Indian School Equalization Program (ISEP).