Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 237 pages) |
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Indigenous Education |
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Indigenous education.
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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 |
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Oranges," they used their new skills, fluency in English, and knowledge of politics and economics to help their people when they eventually returned home |
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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 |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
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SUBJECT |
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) fast |
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Off-reservation boarding schools -- Social aspects -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
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School children -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
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Indian students -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
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Government, Resistance to -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
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Hopi Indians -- Government relations -- History -- 20th century
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Hopi Indians -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 20th century
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Hopi Indians -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 20th century
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Hopi Indians -- Education -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Government, Resistance to
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Hopi Indians -- Cultural assimilation
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Hopi Indians -- Education
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Hopi Indians -- Government relations
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Indian students
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School children
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California -- Riverside
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New Southwest
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2010005710 |
ISBN |
9780803234444 |
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0803234449 |
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0803268319 |
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9780803268319 |
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