American Indian/First Nations schooling : from the colonial period to the present / / Charles L. Glenn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807154603321
• Autore: Glenn Charles Leslie <1938->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-15892-2; 9786613158925; 0-230-34630-8; 0-230-11951-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.82997073
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Education; Indians of North America - Government relations; Education and state - North America - History; Church and education - North America - History; Racism in education - North America - History; Discrimination in education - North America - History; North America Race relations; North America Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- The present Situation * Assumptions about Race * Making Christians * Wards of Government * The 'Five Civilized Nations' * Churches as Allies and Agents of the State * Decline of the Partnership of Church and State * Separate Education Institutionalized * Problems of Residential Schools * Self-Help and Self-Governance * Indian Languages and Cultures * Navajo, Cree, and Mohawk * Continued Decline of Indian Languages * Indians in Local Public Schools * Have We Learned Anything?
• Sommario/riassunto: "Tracing the history of Native American schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large--and sometimes within indigenous communities--which led to Native American children being separate from the white majority. Charles Glenn examines the ; evolving assumptions about race and culture as applied to schooling, the reactions of parents and tribal leadership in the United States and Canada, and the symbolic as well as practical role of indigenous languages and of efforts to maintain them"--; "An overview of efforts to provide formal schooling to the children of native peoples of North America, from seventeenth century New France to the residential Indian schools of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the Indian charter schools of the twenty-first. The racial assumptions of the White majority, the ambivalence of Indian families and tribes about the schooling offered to their children and youth, the uneasy cooperation between church groups and government, and efforts to maintain or revive native languages, are discussed in a perspective covering both Canada and the United States"--