One critical function of anthropology is to use ethnography to describe, analyze, protest, and interrupt oppressive social practices. A process of systematic negative critique allows the ethnographer to confront cultural hegemony and opens ways to transform the ideologies of schools and other institutions. (VM)

Papago Indian children are members of two language groups and several cultural groups. The effects of these groups are manifested uniquely in each individual. A longitudinal study of writing samples from these children reveals a rich and varied experiential base which includes meaningful understandings of both Papago and American cultural…