American Indian/First Nations Schooling

Tracing thehistory ofNative American schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes withinindigenous communities - which led toNative Americanchildren being separate from the white majority.Charles L.Glenn examines theevolving 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.