Critique, vol. 40, no. 2, Winter, 1999, pp. 152-160
Description
Explores the clash between Christianity and shamanistic religions through an analysis of historical interactions between missionaries and the Chippewa, and the character of Lipsha in Love Medicine.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, Prophets: Religious Leaders and Revitalization Movements, Summer, 1985, pp. 335-351
Description
Explores the Ghost Dance social and religious movement and its prophet Wovoka. The Ghost Dance was created during times of hardships for the American Indigenous people in hopes of a return to happier times.
Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 40, no. 1, 2002/2003, pp. 115-124
Description
Examines the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories by Native American women writer Gertrude Bonnin and considers various strategies of resistance to assimilation.
American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 58, no. 1, 2014, pp. 124-144
Description
An examination on how scholars can find the balance between the positive effects and the loss of culture when addressing the experiences of Indigenous boarding school students.
In Education, vol. 19, no. 2, [Indigenous Education] in Education, Pt. 1, Autumn, 2013, pp. 120-137
Description
Explores the following: Historical Context, Policies Directed at Colonization, Colonization in Canada, Impact of Colonization on Identity, Decolonization, Self-Determination, and Concluding remarks.
UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Higher Education Research Colloquium
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Amy Fann
Description
Considers access to college in an ecological context that encompasses family, tribes, life on a rural reservation and previous educational experiences.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, Spring, 1987, pp. 97-125
Description
Looks at the evolution of the Cherokee legal system, from traditional blood feuds to a traditional tribal court system. However, the signing of the New Echota Treaty in 1835 saw the return to blood feuds within the Cherokee Nation.
Looks at politics and practices of cross cultural communication by examining the historical and current status of American Indians as subjects and participants in the educational system.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, February 1988
Description
Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.
Discusses deeper meaning of assimilation policies as factors of Indian schooling based on 3 perspectives; Protestant ideology, civilized versus savage paradigm, and land quest of whites.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer, 2015, pp. 62-79
Description
Discusses how Erdrich's approach to boarding schools is one of safe haven not the historical negative effects on Native communities. Suggests instructors supplement teaching so students get a complete picture of boarding school experiences.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 27-40
Description
Looks at the life of Indigenous reformer Gertrude Bonnin and her fight to move Indigenous Americans away from a tribal orientation towards a more pan-Indian culture through education.
Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Amy M. Goodburn
Description
Looks at how educational and societal ideologies shaped girls' writing and its reception by examining content of students' essays.
Chapter from Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present edited by Jane Greer.
The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12, no. 3, August 1946, pp. 395-404
Description
Looks at the historical relationship between native Americans and white people in the United States, and discusses goals to "educate", "civilize", and "Christianize" native people in the early colonial days.
Looks at how white women were involved in the removal of American Indian children to boarding schools and that their involvement implicated them in one of the most cruel, yet largely unexamined, policies of colonialism within the American West.