A place to be Navajo : Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling

Book

A place to be Navajo : Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling / Teresa L. McCarty ; with photographs by Fred Bia.

McCarty, T. L. (Author). Bia, Fred. (Added Author).

Summary:

Employs indigenous oral testimony and critical ethnography to describe the life history of the Navajo community of Rough Rock, Arizona, home of the first American Indian community-controlled school, tracing the town's struggle for language, culture, and education rights.

Record details

ISBN: 0805837604
ISBN: 9780805837605
ISBN: 0805837612
ISBN: 9780805837612
Physical Description: xxi, 229 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:: Framing the story -- People, place, and ethnographic texts -- "How it was" -- "We were going to school being taught only by Anglos" -- A portrait of change -- Origin stories -- Community and classroom -- The problems and politics of program evaluation -- The two faces of self-determination -- Transitions and turmoil -- "If we want to be powerful, we have to exercise our power" : indigenous teachers as change agents -- Protest -- "What if the children forget the Navajo language?" -- Epilogue : "The hopes and dreams of Rough Rock."