This article presents a historical perspective of American Indian education and relates concepts to current trends. Native and colonial Americans saw education as the vehicle through which the community trained individuals in all aspects of life. Self-determination was, and still is, the theme of education for American Indian nations. (DF)

Indian schooling in colonial America was continuously immersed in the exchange between cultures that involved religion, land ownership, disease, alcohol, and warfare, and was molded by trade in furs and hides, and Indian slaves. In the past two decades American scholars have begun to reinterpret colonial North American Indian history and the…

This essay explores the common threads of the boarding school experiences of Native American children. These boarding schools and its students possessed unique qualities that were shaped by a multitude of conditions, including the cultures of the tribes represented, the location, the era, and the schools' directors--missionary, Indian nation, or…

First published in 1974, this book was the first full-length study of federal Indian education policy. This revised edition brings the material up to date with the addition of analysis and interpretation of trends and policies that shaped Indian education in the 1980s and 1990s. Chapters are arranged chronologically and cover specific eras such as…