The Earth Memory Compass

• Author(s): Farina King

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2018-10-01
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• Publisher: University Press of Kansas

The Diné, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina King’s search for her own Diné identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Diné Bikéyah—or Navajo lands—across the twentieth century. In her exploration of how historical changes in education have reshaped Diné identity and community, King draws on the insights o...

This Benevolent Experiment

• Author(s): Andrew John Woolford

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2015-09
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• Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formulation of the "Indian problem" as a policy concern in the United States and Canada and examines how the "solution" of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex cha...

A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942

• Categories: American literature

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1942
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• Publisher: Unknown

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School and Society

• Author(s): Steven E. Tozer, Paul C. Violas, Guy B. Senese

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1993
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• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Part One of this text examines educational themes in the historical context in which they first appeared. Corresponding Part Two chapters return to these themes and examine them in their contemporary contexts. Throughout, the relationship between social conditions, prevailing ideologies and educational practice is stressed.

The World of Indigenous North America

• Author(s): Robert Warrior

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2014-12-05
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• Publisher: Routledge

The World of Indigenous North America is a comprehensive look at issues that concern indigenous people in North America. Though no single volume can cover every tribe and every issue around this fertile area of inquiry, this book takes on the fields of law, archaeology, literature, socio-linguistics, geography, sciences, and gender studies, among others, in order to make sense of the Indigenous experience. Covering both Canada's First Nations and the Native American tribes of the United States, and alluding to the work being done in indigenous studies through the rest of the world, the volume reflects the critical mass of scholarship that has developed in Indigenous Studies over the past dec...