Anne Ruggles Gere is Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor of Education Emerita and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Emerita at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880–1920 and coeditor of Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition, among other books.

• 1. The Emergence of Indian Education2. Indigenous Women Teachers3. Winnemucca, Word Warrior4. The Peabody Institute5. Alice Callahan, Child of Removal6. Alice Callahan and Relational Survivance7. Angel DeCora and "Indian Art"8. Angel DeCora's Art of Survivance9. Ella Deloria and Indian Progress10. Ella Deloria's Temporal Imagination11. Legacies of Survivance12. Toward Educational SovereigntyAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1: Indigenous Classroom TeachersAppendix 2: Indigenous Staff MembersNotesBibliographyIndex

"Agents of Survivance breaks new ground in terms of primary source engagement and represents a monumental contribution to the field. Anne Ruggles Gere does well in discovering a litany of women who have mostly been overlooked in previous literature. I know of nothing comparable."—Hayes Peter Mauro, author of The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School"The research Anne Ruggles Gere has compiled includes long-overlooked material that provides an enlightening look into the post–Civil War environment for Indian women teachers. It also shows how the women's creativity challenged the schools' assimilationist purposes. I believe that Gere's material will be appreciated as new and important by specialists in Indigenous history, especially those with an interest in Native American feminism."—Martha Louise Hipp, author of Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation