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Author Sakiestewa Gilbert, Matthew

Title Education beyond the mesas : Hopi students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929 / Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 237 pages)
Series Indigenous Education
Indigenous education.
Contents Hopi resistance -- Policies and assimilation -- The Orayvi split and Hopi schooling -- Elder in residence -- Taking Hopi knowledge to school -- Learning to preach -- Returning to Hopi -- Conclusion -- Appendix
Summary Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona "turned the power" by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest off-reservation boarding schools in the United States, followed other federlly funded boarding schools of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in promoting the assimilation of Indigenous people into mainstream America. Many Hopi schoolchildren, deeply conversant in Hopi values and traditional education before being sent to Sherman Institute, resisted this program of acculturation. Immersed in learning about another world, generations of Hopi children drew on their culture to skillfully navigate a system designed to change them irrevocably. In fact, not only did the Hopi children strengthen their commitment to their families and communities while away in the "land of
Oranges," they used their new skills, fluency in English, and knowledge of politics and economics to help their people when they eventually returned home
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert draws on interviews, archival records, and his own experiences, growing up in the Hopi Community to Offer a powerful account of a quiet, enduring triumph. --Book Jacket
Notes OldControl:muse9780803234444
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index
Notes English
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Subject Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) fast
Subject Off-reservation boarding schools -- Social aspects -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
School children -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
Indian students -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
Government, Resistance to -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
Hopi Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century
Hopi Indians -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 20th century
Hopi Indians -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
Hopi Indians -- Education -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Government, Resistance to
Hopi Indians -- Cultural assimilation
Hopi Indians -- Education
Hopi Indians -- Government relations
Indian students
School children
California -- Riverside
New Southwest
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010005710
ISBN 9780803234444
0803234449
0803268319
9780803268319