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"Transforming Diné Education honors the perspectives and voices of Diné educators in culturally relevant education, special education, Diné language revitalization, wellbeing, tribal sovereignty, self-determination in Diné education, and university/tribal/community partnerships. The contributors offer stories about Diné resilience, resistance, and survival by articulating a Diné-centered pedagogy and politics for future generations"--
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Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds.Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” in national magazines—shared his brooding verse. But for Shelton, the novelty of meeting a death-row monster became a thirty-year commitment to helping prisoners express themselves. Shelton began organizing...
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In the current debate about improving the quality of American education, the subject of education at Native Nations is often ignored. And yet, these Nations face a unique set of challenges, above and beyond those faced by other educational institutions, including the preservation and fostering of their unique language and cultural values. This book offers a number of case studies illustrating efforts by the Navajo Nation to boost the career prospects...
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Tells of the forced removal of Hopi children to off-reservation boarding schools such as Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, and the Phoenix and Stewart Indian Schools. Topics covered include Hopi understanding of education, early government efforts to assimilate and acculturate Hopis, the Orabi split, Hopi language loss at American schools and the future of the Hopis. A number of historical photograhs of Hopi villages, Indian boarding schools,...
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