"Many educational traditions and practices have been lost or only remain in the memories of survivors of the indigenous peoples’ holocaust while other educational traditions have remained active. Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice provides educational models that affirm the vitality of these traditions and their adaptability to contemporary times…. It is my hope and belief that the educational models described in this book will help put students, teachers, and the world on the path to harmony and hope."--Joel Spring, Queens College, City University of New York, USA, from the Series Editor Foreword "As I began to read, I started to feel excited by the idea of teaching this book, of using it in my work to prepare educators for urban and rural classrooms. It is a superlative example of what I am trying to convey to future teachers about epistemological diversity, and the need to recognize the rich, often untranslatable, sometimes dissonant ways of knowing and beliefs about knowing that students bring to classrooms. Further, the volume serves as a radiant counterpoint to neoliberal logic—a logic so naturalized in the West that it stands in for reason, while circumventing alternative worldviews….the book is dynamic, poetic, precise, recursive."—wicazo sa, a Journal of Native American Studies
