This authoritative volume puts the schooling of Native American
children in the broader context of the country's educational agenda
and demonstrates how Native American learning continues to be a
challenge to minority education in the United States. This
fascinating overview provides a comprehensive introduction to the
education of Native Americans in the United States. Historically,
schools were seen as essential to formal education but also as the
custodians of community values, a way to socialize Native Americans
into the European way of life. Native American Education: A
Reference Handbook describes the role played by various churches
and missionaries and their different approaches to education
against a backdrop of mostly unfamiliar social and legal history.
For example, most Americans probably do not know that Indians
helped write the Constitution and that an Indian served as vice
president of the United States. Author Lorraine Hale provides
strategies for preserving Indian culture within the framework of
modern American education. Presents a historical background on the
evolution of Native American education from the advancing
colonization of North America beginning in the 1700s to the
increasing government involvement in running Native American
schools through the 1900s Includes coverage from the efforts of the
Jesuits beginning in 1492 to teach Native Americans in Spanish and
convert them to Catholicism to the publication in 1991 of Indian
Nations at Risk by the Department of Education
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